In 2021, the pricing on these CPUs has collapsed.

By 2021, the C612 gained a second life due to the influx of affordable, refurbished enterprise hardware on platforms like Newegg and eBay .

A dual-socket Xeon E5 v3/v4 system draws significantly more power at idle and under load than a modern single-socket system. High electricity costs can eventually offset the initial savings of buying used hardware.

To understand its relevance in 2021, we must look at what the C612 offered. It was the platform for the socket, supporting the Haswell-EP (Xeon E5-2600 v3) and Broadwell-EP (Xeon E5-2600 v4) processor families.