I played a lot of games and did a lot of software development on this desktop. I did one month of mining too. This lived in the rack in the basement of my West Fargo twinhome. I drilled holes in the floor/ceiling in order to run 3x massive dual-link DVI cables up to the living room, where I had my desk. The dual-link was necessary to feed the Dell U3011 monitor which I had in a PLP setup between two Dell 2007fwp? monitors.
I built this server for some personal things like blog hosting, Minecraft server, etc. and also to host Dirt Tech's website and services. At some point I got rid of my slightly older desktop and used this as my desktop.
From an email discussing this build in the context of my recommendations for someone else's build:
I ordered this to serve as an ESXi host at home. I had a consulting gig coming up where they had some VMware infrastructure so I needed to have some familiarity with it. That was a success and I kept the PC around as a VM host for many years.
Work freebie for Proxmox node 3. Will bump up the RAM someday
Another work freebie. I will increase the RAM eventually. This is Proxmox node 2.
This was free from work. I upgraded the RAM and SSD situation and so began my Proxmox cluster.
Probably bought to test Android apps.
Quite likely that it was the 16GB model based on price paid.
I probably bought this for testing for Android app development. And I sold it for $120 on Craigslist.
Bought mainly for testing for Android app development.
Bought primarily for testing Android app development.
I had this through at least April 2016 based on some sign-in alert emails I found. ("New sign-in from Asus Nexus 7 (2012)")
