@haitch I just finished building a workstation/proof of concept PC for a friend. His had a couple of additions over what I'm proposing - eg Dual GPU, 10Gb Ethernet .....
It's an E5-2650V3 Xeon in a consumer mobo. 10 Core/20 Thread, non ECC DDR. It runs like a champ, and would make a great desktop or mining build. I have a couple more of the CPU's and am happy to build more of these if anyone is interested:
System Specs:
Asus X99 Mobo
Intel Xeon E5-2650 V3 CPU (10 core/20 Thread) with closed loop water cooling.
Case: NZXT Mid Tower (11 x 3.5 Internal Drive bays)
Corsair 750W Modular PSU
256GB Plextor NVMe PCIe OS Boot drive.
DDR4 (non-ECC) RAM - tbd by buyer
GPU - tbd by buyer
Cost would be $900 + list cost of RAM + GPU + shipping.
Other hardware upgrades modifications are possible. DM me.
The system comes with NO HDD, just the SSD, but I can add 8TB White Label WD Reds for ~ $185 each depending on availability.