[US] Some turn key Xeon 6-core Crunching rigs for under $400

Sasqui · Nov 28, 2017

This caught my eye:

https://flash.newegg.com/Product/9SIA5YV62E3916

$399.99 with a NEW 256 Gb SSD and Win 10 Pro

Refurbished: HP Z420 Workstation - Intel Xeon Six Core Second Gen E5-1650v2 3.5GHz - 8GB of RAM - New 240GB SSD with 0 Hours - DVDRW - Quadro NVS 290 Video Card - Windows 10 Pro

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And these two:

https://flash.newegg.com/Product/9SIA5YV5N68498

https://flash.newegg.com/Product/9SIA5YV5Z71593

I do believe that these will accept quite a few other v2 Xeon CPUs, up to 12 cores

XZero450 · Nov 29, 2017

For what it's worth, these will crunch *slightly* better than a 4930k at stock speeds..

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