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It is a fair question! The price/performance metric for what I am building far exceeds what you're looking at.
For example, with my setup for $23k, I'll have 700 CPU Cores and 1.6TB of memory, in addition to (not needed) 25TB of NVMe storage, as well as decent amount of clustered GPU compute, albeit not the goal.
700 fast processing cores for $23k is just not possible using server architecture at this time.
I just happen to have a spreadsheet that covers compute density for all models of dell, HPE, and supermicro...
Your cost/density sweet spot is going to be the 2u/4 node platform from Dell or supermicro that use the xeon e5-2600v4 or scalable v2. There's a wide selection on eBay for this stuff, so it's definitely available. At 16 cores/CPU, 128 cores/2u unit, you'll need 6 units.
For the dell fx2s with 4 x fx630 nodes, 256gb memory/node, 32 cores/node, I spec'd one out for $2400 before storage and GPU