With Skylake Out, It's Becoming Easier To Build A Cheap Haswell Xeon Linux System

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With Skylake Out, It's Becoming Easier To Build A Cheap Haswell Xeon Linux System: Now that Skylake Xeon processors are appearing at major Internet retailers in sufficient quantities (such as the recently reviewed Intel Xeon E3 1245 v5), prices on older-generation Xeon CPUs are falling further. With prices on DDR3, SSDs, and Haswell-compatible motherboards also continuing to fall, it's possible to build a sufficiently powerful yet cheap Haswell Xeon system.