I went a little further in 2020 and started working on HP Server. They are even cheaper than Workstations but need some upgrades to be comfortably used at home

I went a little further in 2020 and started working on HP Server. They are even cheaper than Workstations but need some upgrades to be comfortably used at home (silent fans etc). I use 2x westmere cpu (x5670) as performance vs price is still excellent. DDR3 ram is dirt cheap. Combined with nvme drive it just really fast machine for any developer task I do, even some graphics. Power consumption is 140W at idle, up to 350W at full load. I use it few hours a day, so the electricity bill is not something to consider here. My conversion: https://www.instructables.com/Convert-HP-DL380-G6-to-Cheap-Gaming-PC/ https://www.instructables.com/Convert-HP-DL380-G6-to-Cheap-G...