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To: nicewatch who wrote (797)9/26/2020 11:18:43 PM
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I went a totally different route for my new system. Instead of building from the ground up, I bought a refurbed Xeon workstation with 128GB of ECC DDR-4 already installed. That was $707 after tax. Then I bought an $80 14-core Xeon on Ebay, which I researched would work in this system. I put an old graphics card and SSD in after purchase.

I am very happy with the results. The 14(28 cores) are very helpful for my GNS3 and EVE NG stuff. But the many cores are also good for web browsing, which let's face it, is probably the biggest time use for any system. Some sites that used to bring my Core-i7 to a temporary standstill, are now no problem.

Web browsers are among the most advanced applications ever written and make very good use of all cores on a system. When I start a browser with many tabs set as start pages, I see ALL 28 virtual cores in use.
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