Damn this dual 2670 this is sounding like exactly what I want.
I am due a CPU and Motherboard upgrade as I am on Bulldozer FX 6100, which is fine right now. I am planning to wait for Zen, I very much like a full AMD system, but I don't want to get revision 1. I would rather wait for better steppings and bug fixing which will take time.
So it is super tempting to go build one of these super cheap dual Xeons, I do t need ground breaking game performance, I am coming from original bulldozer with a 290. So even if the xeons are behind the newer iCore ones for games it will be a jump up, and I expect to be running higher resolution by then so the load will be off the CPU mostly and back on the GPU so that is furtherly not a problem.
Regardless of CPU/Mono choice the plan was to go Linux with either VM pass through, or dual boot. It would also server as a media storage home streamer so the threads will be nice for that as opposed to the gaming. No video editing or any of that stuff really.
So this is super tempting.