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Scrapyard wars: workstation edition?

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So there has been an interesting twist in each one so far such as water cooling, RGB, having to pay for food/transportation, etc. So since most so far have focused on gaming pcs, why not do a workstation one? Benchmarks based on CAD, 3D rendering, virtualization, CPU intensive mathematical/statistical calculations, etc. A twist could be to allow 1 item to be researched and ordered from Amazon/ebay ahead of time (still coming out of the budget). I'm not sure how good the Craigslist market is for workstation hardware so it would be helpful.

 

Adding displays into the budget and having bonus points for multi monitors seems interesting as well.

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Personal Laptop: Lenovo W540; bought a used workstation laptop on eBay that just needed a hard drive for half of what they were going for in working order at the time. Intel i7 vPro, 16 GB DDR3 RAM, 500GB SSD

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Now I'm imagining them buying 14 core ES xeons for like 300 bucks and using the rest of the budget for an OP gpu.

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31 minutes ago, Damascus said:

Now I'm imagining them buying 14 core ES xeons for like 300 bucks and using the rest of the budget for an OP gpu.

but would mobos for that be readily available? I really don't know because xeons+me=no. These kind of factors would definitely matter

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7 minutes ago, Cyracus said:

but would mobos for that be readily available? I really don't know because xeons+me=no. These kind of factors would definitely matter

Workstation laptop + ram upgrade + external 1-2 monitors + e-gpu? I really want to see someone try that one lol.

Home desktop: AMD FX-6350 CPU, AMD 7950 GPU, 12GB DDR3 RAM, 2x250GB SSD (RAID 0) for main drive, 1TB HDD for extra storage, Windows 10

 

Work desktop: Intel Q8400 core 2 quad CPU, Nvidia GeForce 8400GS Rev 2 GPU, 4GB DDR2 RAM, 120GB SSD for main drive, 250GB HDD for extra storage, Linux Mint 18.3

 

Personal Laptop: Lenovo W540; bought a used workstation laptop on eBay that just needed a hard drive for half of what they were going for in working order at the time. Intel i7 vPro, 16 GB DDR3 RAM, 500GB SSD

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7 minutes ago, Cyracus said:

but would mobos for that be readily available? I really don't know because xeons+me=no. These kind of factors would definitely matter

A really solid x99 board will cost you between $75 - $200 second hand and are in insanely high supply.  Add a v3 ES Xeon with 8 - 14+ cores for 125 - 300

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2 minutes ago, Damascus said:

x99 board

Oh, guess I could've looked up the processor and seen that before bashing away at my keyboard xD

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@CyracusLet's put an imaginary budget of 1000 CAD.

 

150 on mobo, probably an asrock model for ecc support

 

$250 for something along the lines of an ES E5-2658 v3 (12c/24t 2.2ghz and only 180 USD/240 CAD)

 

$60 gets us a decent a cheap case (likely needs to be eatx) + a $10 4 pack of rosewell fans off of newegg, no temperature issues for us

 

$100 or so gets us an rmx or G2/G3 600-700w psu 

 

$20 for a budget heat sink, in this case let's say a cryirig m9i

 

$590 total, leaving enough left in the tank for a 980 ti :)

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Wouldn't they want a more "workstation" GPU?

Home desktop: AMD FX-6350 CPU, AMD 7950 GPU, 12GB DDR3 RAM, 2x250GB SSD (RAID 0) for main drive, 1TB HDD for extra storage, Windows 10

 

Work desktop: Intel Q8400 core 2 quad CPU, Nvidia GeForce 8400GS Rev 2 GPU, 4GB DDR2 RAM, 120GB SSD for main drive, 250GB HDD for extra storage, Linux Mint 18.3

 

Personal Laptop: Lenovo W540; bought a used workstation laptop on eBay that just needed a hard drive for half of what they were going for in working order at the time. Intel i7 vPro, 16 GB DDR3 RAM, 500GB SSD

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