I have a HP Z440 at home - E5-1680v3 (8 cores, 16 hyperthreaded), reasonably fast for everything I do. I replaced the GPU (some random Quadro) with a RTX-2070.

I have a HP Z440 at home - E5-1680v3 (8 cores, 16 hyperthreaded), reasonably fast for everything I do. I replaced the GPU (some random Quadro) with a RTX-2070. Now, 6 months later, I get random beeps on boot (6 beeps = GPU error). I wish I stayed with the workstation as it was. The faster GPU was not worth the trouble. Overall, I am a convert to workstations with ECC. Worth it the peace of mind that I won't corrupt my files and that it won't randomly crash. Had my share of those over years.