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    Refurbished Dual XEON HPZ600 or DIY?

    I can solve your problem: just send me your Z420. Since I'm doing you a favor it's only fair that you pay the shipping costs :D . On a more serious note I don't understand the power consumption thing, I made some calculation and it turns out that the workstation running at full power 24/7 would...
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    Refurbished Dual XEON HPZ600 or DIY?

    That's quite a sweet workstation as well but it has only one CPU and I wanted a double CPU system to speed up my simulations (alhtough I've seen some XEON octacore or very fast hexacore on the Z420). What CPU did you mount? The one I posted I would take it as is with no upgrades for the moment...
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    Refurbished Dual XEON HPZ600 or DIY?

    Hi all, I'm in need of a powerful workstation and I'm undecided between buying a refurbished workstation or building one myself. I will use it mainly for number crunching (Computational fluid dynamics and genetic algorithms) and CAD, it will be my main system as well. I will run mainly Ubuntu...