alt Hacker NewsOne day I hope to be rich enough to put a CPU like this (with proportional RAM and storage) in my proxmox cluster.
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Wait long enough and these will be cheap on eBay.
By that point we'll be desiring the new 1000 core count CPUs though.
Do you remember what you dreamed about 7 years ago? An Ampere Altra 80-core-CPU was sold for less than 210€ on eBay in January.
This is the 2026 version of "I need a beowulf cluster of these".
Aside from the memory cost being exorbitant, 4th/5th gen ES CPUs aren’t horribly expensive for the core count you get. 8480s and 8592s have been quite accessible.
Stuffed an 8480+ ES with 192gb of memory across 8 channels and it’s actually not too bad.
Just give it a few years and you'll be able to buy the thing for a fraction of the 'current' price. By that time it will be considered to be 'slow' and 'power-hungry' and people will wonder why you're intent on running older hardware but it'll still work just fine. The DL380 G7 under the stairs here also used to cost an arm and a leg while I got it for some finger nail clippings.
> with proportional RAM and storage
Let's not get carried away here
Some of the AMD offerings like this on Ebay are pretty close to affordable! It's the RAM that's killer these days...
I still regret not buying 1TB of RAM back in ~October...