Today I have upgraded the PC I'm using to run a Steem witness node on at home with a new Xeon CPU, a 10-core, 20 threads one... not that the system needed the upgrade, it was running just fine with the old Core i7 CPU. What I'm seeing as a required upgrade however in the very near future is the RAM as it is currently only 16GB (4x 4GB DDR4) and it will need to go up to 32GB to have enough space for the growing requirements of the Steem blockchain... especially when you also use the node for development.
The old CPU was an Intel Core i7 5820K - a 6 core, 12 threads one that already offered more than the needed performance. Especially now that mining Steem with a CPU is pretty much pointless with the miner-witness queue dominated by only two miners apparently using private GPU miners. Frankly said with the current price of Steem mining even with a GPU might not be that much worth it, but that is an entirely different topic.
As you can see I'm using water cooling on my Steem node, I'm actually using custom water cooling on all of my PCs at home and I have been cooling them with custom water cooling for many years already. That started many years ago with overclocking and now, even when I'm normally not overclocking the computers I use, I still prefer to have a custom water cooling than to deal with air coolers...
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