I'm in IT and decided to build a homelab for learning stuff and ended up buying an Intel NUC with a 10th gen i7-10710U CPU. 6 cores / 12 threads. Great little unit! Silent and efficient.
[0]https://github.com/Aquantia/AQtion-esxi
[1]https://www.sonnettech.com/product/solo10g-tb3/overview.html