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I bought a renewed 2x E5-2690v4 server (28c/56t) 128gb on amazon for under $500 2 years ago (28c/56t) dell T7810

search amazon for "chia farming" ...and scroll past chia seeds :)

now same machine is 2.5x the price

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B095TRGCSX

but way cheaper than current ddr5 machines

Bought the exact same machine (same config and ram as well) around the same time off ebay for ~$280. Part of me wonders if I should sell it, but I do occasionally like to play with homelab stuff.

I have a 3060 12gb card I'd love to hook up to my PoE Reolink cameras for face detection and to get off of the Reolink app.

> now same machine is 2.5x the price

2.5x?! I have a bunch of older Haswell servers I got for free that are rotting away in my garage. I had initially thought of stripping out the ECC DDR4, but now I'm wondering if I'll get takers on Marketplace...

Honestly, if someone can actually use them (as demonstrated by paying the price+shipping) then they would probably have a better home with that person.

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