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Discount Computer Depot
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Walmart
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Reddit
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r/lowendgaming on Reddit: Refurbished workstations are insane deal for gaming on a budget
February 16, 2020 -

There are many videos and guides explaining how to turn an old office PC into an affordable gaming machine. But their cases are small, PSU weak, cooling sucks and forget about high amount of RAM... In my opinion a workstation solves most of those problems. I've bought used/refurbished Dell Precision T3600 for $180 - E5-1620 (4c/8t @ 3,60 GHz), 4 GB ECC RAM, 685W PSU. It's main advantages are:

  • CPU performance +/- just as good as highest end 3-4rd gen i7 AND can be upgraded to 6 or 8 core Xeon

  • Takes almost any GPU. From GT 710 to RTX 2080

  • ECC RAM is cheap as hell, 64 GB will cost you less than 16 GB non-ECC DDR4

  • Build quality and QoL stuff like hot swappable PSU or tool less installation

And it still costs less than a current gen Ryzen 5/i5 with an ok motherboard!

Do you need even more performance? There are dual CPU models like T5600 or HP Z620
Cheaper? Xeon X based workstations often cost less than $100

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the main reason to go with ryzen is that new parts or available. Also in a few years you can upgrade to ryzen 7 or even 9. Some people like to have new parts for "perceived reliability" in this case you'll be stuck with ryzen 5 power for the rest of your life. Unless some chinese savior decides to remap pins again and make lga 2066 compatible with 2011 *hahahaha*
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I thought about getting an E5-1650 workstation back when they were $300ish on ebay, but ended up with an i5-4690k deal of the century and took it ($15 for motherboard, CPU, and RAM new in the box.) My sister has a Dell T3500 Xeon W3680 1366 socket workstation. We ended up about 2-3 years ago (height of the mining boom) buying it as she wanted something to play the Sims 4 on. We ended up right at $325-350 for the workstation with a Xeon W3680, 24gb ECC RAM, 120gb SSD, 1tb normal hard drive, and a $30 HD6850. Came with a license for Windows 7 Pro on it, too. It wasn't the absolute fastest we could buy, but it was definitely easy, and I figured going for a higher multithread rating than something with a high single thread but lower multithread would be better for her as she said she eventually wanted to get into making Youtube videos and editing. Overall she likes it a lot. I personally like them as they're built really solidly, and have stock 400-500w PSUs with six pins already there. I do know a downside is you can only use OEM PSUs on them without rewiring, but I've heard good things about their stock PSUs. I tend to go the used workstation route for family, friends, and acquaintances that need PCs, as the costs are usually lower than building them, and there's less to screw with (I plugged a hard drive and GPU into my sister's box) compared to building one. Plus, since it's Dell, HP, etc, you'll get less stupid accusations like "hurr durr you built my PC and I got a virus and it's YOUR FAULT because you built it" type nonsense.
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Dell Refurbished
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Cloud Ninjas
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Discount Electronics
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Lenovo
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Discount Computer Depot
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System Liquidation
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Reddit
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r/Dell on Reddit: Best value dell refurbished workstation?
August 2, 2022 -

I'm looking for a solid machine that I can use for homelab, dual/triple booting operating systems, and running virtual machines.

I could of course build something from scratch but I think I could get much better value looking at older refurbished workstations. I'm not a big gamer but some of these systems include pro quadro cards anyway which would be more than adequate and better than most new budget graphics cards.

So far I think the Precision 5820 looks like a possible option and I've seen some for fairly cheap prices. It seems to be new enough that it has all the important features like support for M.2, USB 3.1, and ddr4. I really like the flex bay design that allows for four hot swap drives. Is the Linux support good? What is the repairability and noise like?

Are there any other models worth considering?

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PC Liquidations
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