Cannon Fodder
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Just a wee bit overpriced...... 
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FreeKnight
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How old does that PSU have to be to be an OCZ? 12-15 years I'm guessing?
I'd guess 15+ (we've been here in NB for 16 and I believe they were done the first year we got here.
Not at that price but this atleast has some promise. BIOS update and then drop in a 1680-V4 which can probably be found cheap and a new PSU and would be a good little workstation/homelab. But at the price he is asking is ridiculous.
Marzipan
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Cptn. Vortex used to buy and resell systems on X99 boards. I forget the exact reason they were still so popular though...and he hasn't mentioned doing one in quite a while, so guess whatever benefit they had isn't so beneficial anymore. but still...he did it frequently!
Cannon Fodder
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I believe it was a combination of a few things - quad channel memory(also, I THINK they could use ECC RAM), the ability to drop in a variety of Xeon CPUs, some of which would enable, IIRC, up to 40 PCI-E lanes, opening up the possibility to use multiple GPUs, plus those Xeons having more cores than the usual quad core/HT that were the typical config for so long..... there may be more I'm not thinking of.....
Seems to be this is at least $1000 over priced.
