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There's some pretty good deals on older refurbished Dell stuff right now at dellrefurbished.com which is Dell Financial Services. There's slickdeals coupons for 50% off everything but laptops and 40% off laptops: https://slickdeals.net/f/8555629-dell-refurbished-coupon-laptops-40-off-desktops-50-off-shipping?v=1 quote:50% Off at DellRefurbished.com I picked up an optiplex 990 (i5-2400) for about $182 shipped. Some slickdeals folks are picking up dual 6 core Xeons for under $500 and that kind of thing.
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bigger thicker loads posted:Thanks for the advice about using an NUC as an ESXi host. With my tax return coming soon, I've got a little more breathing room in my budget, so I'm deciding between these two systems: It's going to depend on how many VMs you want to run concurrently and how bogged down they'll get if the machine is overprovisioned, but I would probably not buy a dual core CPU for a VM box, I'd lean towards the latter. In my case I run 12+ VMs on a dual 6 core xeon machine that cost about $600 to put together (with some ssd storage). It's 2011 hardware and uses around 200 Watts when the CPUs are under heavy load but it fits my needs.
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