How do you solve a problem like Woodcrest?

[Daz]

Ok, I have in front of me a 3.0GHz Woodcrest Xeon – a little gift from my Dell account manager. 1 of 3 actually, the other 2 have gone into a couple of the devs workstations, and the idea was the third would go into mine (Precision 490).


… but I don’t really need it tbh. I’ve never noticed any lag when I’m virtualising a network, and I do very little compilation on this box – certainly not enough to justify an upgrade. Being a freebie I could take it home without any problems, but I have no intel kit, no DDR2 memory, no will to spend any money on some and tbh, no room for the server rig I’d want to build.

I don’t want to sell it, because that sets a bit of a precedent which unnerves me. Being outsourced, selling on other companies kit for my own financial gain is just dodgy ++ to me, and I’m not comfortable with it.

So… what do I do with it?