Yes and a 10 year old Xeon is going to be a v4 (not a v2 as in TFA) and it's going to have DDR4 ECC, not DDR3 ECC.
I've got a 14 cores / 28 threads Xeon from 2015 that I use as a server at home (ZFS / VMs).
It's really a sweet machine.
For ricing I've got a semi-recent AMD 7700X / DDR5 RAM (from 2023 ?) which is my main machine but the real deal is my old and trusty 10 years old Xeon server.
DDR4 ECC is pricey too atm but a 10 years old Xeon is basically free now.
A 20 cores / 40 threads costs maybe 20 USD (for just the CPU). Slap that in a $100 old HP Z440 workstation and you're good to go for quite a few workloads.
Mine is only on when I'm at my computer: it's not turned on 24/7 but more like 8/7 so the entire "but it consumes energy" point is moot.
Yes and a 10 year old Xeon is going to be a v4 (not a v2 as in TFA) and it's going to have DDR4 ECC, not DDR3 ECC.
I've got a 14 cores / 28 threads Xeon from 2015 that I use as a server at home (ZFS / VMs).
It's really a sweet machine.
For ricing I've got a semi-recent AMD 7700X / DDR5 RAM (from 2023 ?) which is my main machine but the real deal is my old and trusty 10 years old Xeon server.
DDR4 ECC is pricey too atm but a 10 years old Xeon is basically free now.
A 20 cores / 40 threads costs maybe 20 USD (for just the CPU). Slap that in a $100 old HP Z440 workstation and you're good to go for quite a few workloads.
Mine is only on when I'm at my computer: it's not turned on 24/7 but more like 8/7 so the entire "but it consumes energy" point is moot.