Comment by cmxch

Not sure about the memory, but Xeon Scalable/Max ES/QS chips and their boards are still not horribly expensive.

Prior to the crunch, you could have anything from 48-64 cores and a good chunk of RAM (128GB+). If you were inordinately lucky, 56 cores and 64GB of onboard HBM2e was doable for 900-1500 USD.

They’re not Threadrippers or EPYCs,but sort of a in between - server chip that can also make a stout workstation too.