I don't have a link to that deal but buying quality used hardware isn't difficult or expensive. I built a Quanta Open Compute node with 12 physical cores (24 l

I don't have a link to that deal but buying quality used hardware isn't difficult or expensive. I built a Quanta Open Compute node with 12 physical cores (24 logical with HT) and 96GB of RAM for around $350. There are many companies selling Sandy/Ivy Bridge-EP Xeon servers for pennies to the dollar. For example in the UK/EU: www.bargainhardware.co.uk/e5-2600-lga2011-series-machines