[Feynman]

Hi all,
I'm in need of a powerful workstation to run OpenFOAM, I currently run my simulations on my 10 years old intel centrino laptop and as you might imagine the performance is not top notch .

I will use it mainly for number crunching (OpenFOAM and genetic algorithms) and CAD, it will be my main system as well. I will run Ubuntu as my main OS but I need Windows for CAD so I was thinking about dual booting.

Since I'm on a low budget (<700 Euros) I was thinking about buying a refurbished HP workstation, I've been scanning the internet for quite a while now, there are a lot of HP Z600 Dual XEON out there but what really got me interested is this:

- DUAL CPU XEON X5670 Hexacore (2,93 GHz - 3.33 MAX)
- 24 GB ECC DD3 RAM
- 1 HDD 1 TB SATA 3.5"
- AMD FirePro V7900 2 GB VRAM
- WIN 10 PRO pre installed.

All of this for less then 600 Euros, it come with a 1 year warranty for everything but the graphic card which is given a 3 years warranty from AMD (so it seems the GPU is brand new).

This seems to me a pretty sweet deal, Am I missing something?

The Z series has a solid reputation and this workstation seems to have pretty solid specs: the CPU is still relevant today (and there are 2 of them), enough RAM and a more then decent new professional graphic card.

What would you do with my budget? Buying this or building one yourself? Consider I never assembled a PC myself plus I need to dual boot windows and LINUX.

Any opinion and suggestion is appreciated,
Thanks in advance