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My Z840 is a few years old.. almost 8 years old actually. It is a dual Xeon with 32 cores and 256GB of ECC ram which is important for the computational fluid dy
by mk_stjames 4y ago
My Z840 is a few years old.. almost 8 years old actually. It is a dual Xeon with 32 cores and 256GB of ECC ram which is important for the computational fluid dynamics software I use. Brand new this machine would have probably been $20k... I purchased it for just about $2000 and this was years ago, they can be had for much less now. These type of workstations for CAD, CFD, FEA engineering work are very lucrative when purchased second hand as compared to buying new.
- FpUser 4y agoI have similar Z840 but with the crappiest video card I could buy and stuffed with 512GB RAM. It sits in my basement and hosts some backend software that I wrote for the company I own. Amazingly quiet as well. Bought it for peanuts in specialized store close to my place. They do nothing but refurbish and sell servers and workstations. I bought mine for about 3,000 Canadian pesos. Works like a charm for few years already.