Without going into too much detail, I have had a PC (legally) for 3 years or so that was built by Dell for a very large gaming company around 2020. I'm assuming it was built for staff to actually design the games, not to play them with. Here are the specs:

M.2 2TB PCIe NVMe Class 40 Sol id State Drive

M.2 1TB PCIe NVMe Class 40 Sol id State Drive

Dell M.2 carrier

192GB 12x16GB DDR4 2666MHz RDI MM ECC Memory

Intel Xeon Gold 6146 3.2GHz,(4 .2GHz Turbo, 12C, 10.4GT/s 3UP I, 24.75MB Cache, HT (165W) DD R4-2666)

Intel Xeon Gold 6146 3.2GHz,(4 .2GHz Turbo, 12C, 10.4GT/s 3UP I, 24.75MB Cache, HT (165W) DD R4-2666 2nd)

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Super, 8GB, 3DP, HDMI

I know the 2080 Super is a little dated at this point but 192GB of ram and 2 Xeon golds is still pretty stout. One of the hard drives is removable via the front of the PC. The tower itself has to weigh at least 40 lbs, it's a tank.

My question is, what do you think it was built for and what could I be using it for? Editing video, Maya, Unreal Engine, Blender, etc are GPU intensive and it seems the large quantities of RAM and processor power are doing very little in those sorts of applications. What kind of work and programs are so RAM and processor intensive that would require a build like this? I would like to use it for something worthwhile before it is antiquated.

I'm guessing a build like this from Dell would have run around $20,000, but that's going from memory after looking it up a couple years back and I may be off. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated!

I got my hands on a Dell Precision Workstation 7920. I want to sell it but I am unsure of how much it is worth, and I know from a search on Dell website that they can go from very cheap to very expensive in some builds. However in my case It's missing a graphics card and an ssd/hdd, which makes it impossible for me to understand ehich specs the build is. I appreciate that an Nvidia these days would be the most expensive part of it, and not having in I may be sitting on a cheap half build rather than a 10k+ one.

However I have no idea of how much I could ask for it I was thinking to chuck in the cheapest hdd and graphics card just so I could read the specs. However I've been out of the loop of computers for a while now, so I am not sure of which components would be compatible with this motherboard.

Can anyone recommend the chepest options here, please?

Bonus points if anyone can tell me if instead of a hdd I can just run ubuntu on an usb drive instead of adding a proper drive and if ubuntu will be able to read the specs accurately in that way.