First caveat is even bigger. There already is a HUGE amount of those Xeons and ram modules on the market coming from China where old servers get scrapped, and m

First caveat is even bigger. There already is a HUGE amount of those Xeons and ram modules on the market coming from China where old servers get scrapped, and market is not soaking them in. Nobody needs $18 ancient Xeons. You will never sell 10K of those CPUs in your life time, even if you lower price to $1 a pop.