Currently drawing that daily… sometimes a lot more…

What model is it? Ive got a few G5 and G6 chassis and ive gotten the G5’s to quiet down really well and previously some g4 systems.

What are the specs of the gen8’s?

$400 for that seems steep. Go look for an HP Z440 workstation as cheap as possible and upgrade it. A 12 core E5 v4 cpu is literally $5 and you should be able to pickup a chassis with cpu and like 8gb ram for ~$120. Then for $10 a stick but as many 16gb ddr4 ecc dimms as you want.

For $400 or less you could get 12 much faster newer cores, a basically silent workstation that idles under 100w and 192gb ddr4

I’d go with a v4 asap… literally just picked up a 12 core e5 2650 v4 for $4.80 shipped to my door