Repurposing work servers for a home lab

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welcome to the forum

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Xeon E5-2620 v3

you’d be better off not powering this one on

@wfy34578

Xeon E2224.

GREAT homelab piece

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2025 Reusing Servers and Workstations: Wiki

I now realize why no one has done a broad enterprise hardware comparison across generations. I compared 1600 CPU’s to land here… 1 chart to rule them all Long story short; If it has DDR3: Do not buy it in 2025, but DDR4 does not make you safe from the electric company. If your goal is to build the baddest firebreather of a server, lookup cpu ben…