These are great for sticking a ton of memory, and old disks in, but price/performance is probably questionable compared to new processors in 2022, especially if

These are great for sticking a ton of memory, and old disks in, but price/performance is probably questionable compared to new processors in 2022, especially if you include running costs. Another option are the 'remanufactured' mainboard bundles on the chinese sites. You can get an 8-core ivy bridge (intel's last great cpu imho) such as 2650v2, 16GB ECC ram and the mainboard for <$100 shipped.