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Built my last one about 10 years ago, gave it up last year (couldn't get it to recognize new/more RAM even though it was same type, brand etc....). Since the local schools don't take our old machines any more I was supposed to get a nice 27" iMac for $100 from work... but then covid hit, so they loaned 'em out to students. In the mean time I found out that they wouldn't be selling off our developer machines they were replacing, but were instead paying $25 each to have them disposed of. So I got permission, signed off by just about every level of administration up to the VP over my area (ok, so that is only 3 levels above me but still) and took home my old work machine.

Dell Precision workstation, 8 core i7-7700 CPU @ 3.60GHz, 32gb of RAM and two Nvidia Quadro K620 cards (I only run two monitors, but some devs run 3 and we have the option for 4!). Apparently mis-configured or something 'cause instead of the single 1tb drive I expected there were two 512s that were RAID-0'd together. Even had a few months left on the next-day-on-site parts replacement warranty.

It runs Linux much better than it did Windows. Split the dumb RAID-0 in bios to make 'em stand alone drives, use one for OS and one for /home and both get rsynched via cron job to a RAID-1 array that acts as general storage/backup.