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The Homelab Hero. When data centers retired these 6-core Westmere chips, they didn't go to the landfill—they went to eBay. Enthusiasts discovered that these enterprise-grade chips fit perfectly into consumer X58 motherboards (like the ASUS Rampage).
Because they were higher quality silicon ("binned") than consumer i7s, they could be overclocked effortlessly. A $20 Xeon X5670 could often outperform a $300 Core i7 from three years later. It is the Robin Hood of processors: stealing performance from the rich enterprise market and giving it to the budget gamer.
