So I was given an old HP z820 from work and immediately set it up with plex/radarr and was planning on learning containerization with it. However, it seems to be having some trouble, likely due to age. It’s rocking dual xeon e5-2609’s with 128gb ddr3 ram and two nvidia quadro K2000’s.

I fully plan on seeing if I can salvage this machine, but in case I can’t, can anybody recommend me a good workstation style system for under $1000 as a replacement? I was looking at the Lenovo Thinkstation P920 with dual Xeon gold 6148’s, 128gb ddr4 ram, and 12tb of hdd’s for around that price.