i recently wanted a static gamin machine rather than using my laptop and eGPU, after a bit of research i found that you can get a lot of power for little cash i

i recently wanted a static gamin machine rather than using my laptop and eGPU, after a bit of research i found that you can get a lot of power for little cash if you buy a refurbished xeon workstation. i ended up going with a Thinkstation S20: Xeon E5-1650 v2 8Gb DDR3 (i already had 4x 8g sticks but you can upgrade to 32 pretty cheaply) 120Gb sandisk SSD Quadro K2000 2Gb i paid a shade under £200 for that, with the 32Gb ram and 1070 i already had it pulls in a score of 5999 on 3D mark timespy, even if you dont have a GPU and RAM spare like i did £500 can easily buy you a machine that will obliterate most any day to day task and if you dont need a heavy GPU you can knock a chunk off that price, youll also usually get ECC memory as standard, if youre in the UK check out places like bargainhardware, pcbitz or tier1online where you can config the systems and see for yourself. heres an example one i just configured: 1 x HP Z440 - 700W (Grade B) 1 x Intel Xeon E5-2640 V3 - 8-Core 2.60Ghz (20MB Cache, 8.00GTs, 90W) 1 x HP Z440, Z640 - High End Heatsink & Fan 2 x 16GB - DDR4 2133MHz CAS 12.50 (PC4-17000, 2RX4, ECC REG) 1 x 240GB - SATA (6G) SSD - Major Brand New 1 x HP Z440 MT LFF Hard Drive Caddy 1 x HP SFF to LFF Converter Workstation Support Caddy £394.80 no GPU in that but youre probably better off getting a standard GPU over the Quadro/FirePro etc