Ebay. Hunt harder (and best offer harder). :) E7 CPUs sell absurdly cheap at times because it can be a bit hard to find compatible systems. (similarly, quad

Ebay. Hunt harder (and best offer harder). :) E7 CPUs sell absurdly cheap at times because it can be a bit hard to find compatible systems. (similarly, quad socket systems with slow or no cpus go cheap from people that don't know much about them) > ranked ram is not cheap. Yes, ram for quad socket hosts it adds up, since you need at least 2-8 dimms per socket for full memory bandwidth (which was why I explicitly pointed out that I left it out). On the plus side, those systems tend to have a lot of dimm sockets so you can use lower capacity dimms. > bit coin mining crews nah, not useful for that.