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I got a server blade with a Xeon processor and 96 gigabytes of RAM for free last week... Granted, it is a ten year old device, but still.

Another friend will give me a 180 gigabyte RAM device next week, cause it would go to the container otherwise...

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Yeah, I remember looking into getting a refurbished cloud server instead of a brand new desktop a decade ago or so. They weren't free, but you'd still get a machine with 40 cores and 120gb of RAM for only $400. Pre-Ryzen, it was a very attractive offer.

I never ended up buying one, because it'd consume way more power than made sense, and they're kinda shitty for gaming/workstation use due to low single-core performance and NUMA issues.

It's the power consumption and the noise that gets you with those.

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