Maybe five years ago I bought a used Dell workstation with a 8c16t Xeon and 32GB ECC RAM. It was a couple of years out of date at the time, but I paid €200 for

Maybe five years ago I bought a used Dell workstation with a 8c16t Xeon and 32GB ECC RAM. It was a couple of years out of date at the time, but I paid €200 for it. They had dual-CPU versions for maybe €100 more, but I figured I didn't need that. To build a desktop PC with even remotely similar specs would have been well over €1000. It came with a not very good GPU, but that and the SSD were easily upgraded. For what I did at the time - and probably even now - it was well over powered. At one point I ran 10 instances of our Selenium test suite at once (trying to debug random failures) and it didn't even bat an eyelid.