I had one running as an ESX server for a long time. Back then, this was the cheapest path to 8 cores and was ideal for carving up into smaller VMs. The 8 core

I had one running as an ESX server for a long time. Back then, this was the cheapest path to 8 cores and was ideal for carving up into smaller VMs. The 8 core/32M specs were what was the most you could put on a personal 'free' box.