Message from @Kaytee
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Buy em up
i mean by then the used server market will roll over a generation and i could get a decent r710 or dl380 for way less, with everything already in it
psu bodge for gpu and you've got yourself a workstation
that was the plan before i settles on ryzen anyway tbh
X99 is like $100US for boards tho
Used Xeons will be cheaper than current ES chips
more like $200-$500 for the ones with eight ram slot
and with only four i don't see any benefit there over my current workstation
8 slots for $150
after rebate
$200
$160 before rebate
idrac2xE5645, 128GB PC3L-10600R , raid controller with battery,
good for raw power/$
not per core performance
Shove that shit in a Lackrack and call it a day
It is noisy however
they're quieter than my dl380, which is a whisper next to my little old 1u supermicro box that never gets turned on anymore
It's still a server, meant for cool airconned rooms
i have switches louder than an r710
eh
moved back to hp from netgear for switches, room is significantly quieter
I'm grabbing a 4slot microATX X99 board and waiting a few months for Xeons
i need to sell my old switches at some point
Since I need gaming performance and workstation performance
i'm mostly concerned with multithreaded performance per watt
Current fuckin 4670K ain't cutting it smh
so rzen beat out older 2x/4x xeon box for me atm
See 22core ES xeons
$1000 for 22cores lmfao
i was kinda sitting at a ~$1500 budget as well though
so my options for dual/quad xeon box were limited to older xeons
Ah
and i mean when you bring power into the picture a 1700 shits on them
Zen is incredibly power efficient even compared to consumer i5s so
i really wish the 3d printing world had some more powerful software
single core performance is near-irrelevant for that, but if there was an mpi-aware slicer for me to slice models on a big arm cluster i would be very happy