https://pcpartpicker.com/mr/newegg/xJFPxr

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-PowerEdge-R710-12-Core-2-5-Server-128GB-RAM-PERC6i-DVD-iDRAC6-4-Trays-/331642598630 meanwhile

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

eh, r710s aren't too loud

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

My system is taking agggges to post holy shit

2m30s for post to windows start screen, thanks

could be worse

as cool as HP's sea of sensors is

I'm on an SSD, and it's quick

jfc restarting anything with it takes ages

On all of their platforms HP UEFI is bloated as shit

Like non-consumer

disagree, it just has to do a lot more than desktop firmware does

It takes my EliteBook like 1-2mins to decide if it wants to let me into UEFI

it's not the same use case and you don't generally shut down these machines and restart them regularly like desktops

1-2mins isn't bad compared to, say, any g6 proliant

5+ minute boot