Gaming desktop PCs exist for a single reason - "being able to run C/GPUs for extended periods without thermal issues." If you were doing this for actual work,

Gaming desktop PCs exist for a single reason - "being able to run C/GPUs for extended periods without thermal issues." If you were doing this for actual work, you'd obviously need to step upwards to a real workstation, which would actually be built quite similarly to a bog-standard gaming desktop save for using higher reliability components, e.g. FirePro- or Quadro-class GPU hardware. But to suggest that you need "something in a DC" to explore interesting problems seems quite wrong to me.