On Mon, 25 Nov 2024 at 16:13, Mauro Souza via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
My daily driver is a repurposed server CPU with a repurposed server motherboard. It has a Chinese motherboard (Machinist MR9A) paired with an old Xeon E5-2667 v3. Have a lot of SATA connections (6 IIRC), 2 NVMe slots, support quad-channel memory (up to 4x32GB), and ECC memory. Paid 50 bucks for the motherboard and less than that on the CPU on AliExpress. It will need a beefy power supply (mine is 800W) and will heat your house if abused (that can even be an upside, depending on the weather).
Yup, there is no question you can do this quite inexpensively. (apart from the SSD), and I've had good luck with EBay in the past, but I just wasn't willing to do that this time. ../Dave