I'd dismiss all that are over 4 years old. That's a big investment for gear you may not find service or parts.
Hi all,
I'm looking for a used high end workstation with reasonable price, I found some options and would appreciate your thoughts on them!
I'm expecting the workstaiton to run Engineering modelling software -Revit, AutoCAD, Sketchup...etc- with other software like pdf, word..etc opened in double screening.
OPTION 1: PRICE ASKED: $3150 USD
Two processors total 16 core
INTEL XEON 8 CORE PROCESSOR E5-2687 3.10 GHZ 20MB CACHE
8X 8GB MEMORY 64 GB (SUPPORTS UP TO 512GB OF MEMORY TOTAL, 16 DIMMS)
1 X DELl 600GB SAS 6Gbps ,RPM 10K 2.5 INCH SAS HARD DRIVE (ADDITIONAL HARD DRIVE CONFIGURATIONS AVAILABLE)
4 X 3.5 OR 2.5 INCH SAS/SATA/SSD DRIVES
DELL RAID CONTROLLER PERC H310 6GB/S PCI-E 2.0 X8
DVD-ROM DRIVE
2 X PCIE X16 GEN 3, 2 X ADDITIONAL PCIE X16 GEN (WITH 2ND PROCESSOR), 1 X PCIE X16 GEN 3 WIRED X4, 1 X PCIE X16 GEN WIRED X4, 1 X PCI 32BIT/33MHZ
FRONT: 3 X USB 2.0, 1 X USB 3.0, 1 MIC, 1 X HEADPHONE. INTERNAL: 3 X USB 2.0, 2 X SATA 6.0 GB/S.
REAR: 5 X USB 2.0, 1 X USB 3.0, 2 X PS2, 1 X SERIAL, 2 X RJ45, 1 X 1394A (OPTIONAL), 1 X PARALLEL (OPTIONAL)
INTEGRATED INTEL 82579 AND INTEL 82754 GIGABIT ETHERNET CONTROLLER
NVIDIA QUADRO 6000 6GB VIDEO CARD (ADDITIONAL GRAPHICS CARDS AVAILABLE)
16.95 X 8.50 X 20.67 INCHES (438 X 216 X 545 MM), 38 LBS MINIMUM WEIGHT
1300W EXTERNALLY ACCESSIBLE POWER SUPPLY
Warranty is expired
Option 2: $3600 USD
HP z820 HIGHER END WORKSTATION SYSTEM
Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2660
(20M Cache, 2.20 GHz, 8.00 GT/s Intel® QPI)
32 logical cores
64 GB memory
256 GB SSD + 2 TB hdd sata 7200 rpm
NVIDIA QUADRO 6000 6 GB ddr5 professional graphics
Warranty 6 months
Option 3: $2900 USD
2 PROCESSER 16 CORE EACH 8 CORE
Two Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2660
(40Mb Cache, 2.20 GHz, 8.00 GT/s Intel® QPI)
RAM 64 GB (8x8 GB) DDR3-1333 ECC Registered
Intel® SSD 320 Series (600GB, 2.5in SATA 3Gb
HDD 600GB SAS 1500 RPM
HDD 2TB SATA 3.5 INCH
GRAPHICS ENGINE
NVIDIA Tesla C1060 4GB Computing Processor
NVIDIA QUADRO 5000 2.5GB DDR5
NEW HP 22 IN 1 3.5 Inch USB Media Card Reader
Multi DVD/RW Super Drive
HP WIRELESS KEYBORD MOUSE NEW
MS Windows 7 Professional 64Bit
Warranty 6 Months
Thanks in advance!

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