[geeks] Multi-Core on the cheap

[Lionel Peterson]

Sounds great, that should work great for you.

Lionel

> On Mar 4, 2018, at 3:44 AM, Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I ended up going for a HP Z400 with a Xeon L5640. It's a B Grade refurb so
> the chassis is likely a bit beaten up but I figure replacement parts
> shouldn't be too hard to find and I can invest longer term in those. As
> long as the damn thing works reliably it's a start!!
>
> What it gets me is a 6 core (12 thread) CPU with Speedstep and extensive
> Virtualization features. It's only 2.26GHz but Turbo Boost will push it up
> to 2.80 GHz. It's 60W TDP ticks the boxes for power consumption and it
> should be cool and quiet.
>
> Bought it pretty bare bones as I have all the stuff from the current
> project, including a SSD, 2x 1TB Disk, SAS card and bay, and optical drive.
>
> Next project is to sling the 5320s in the Mac Pro, while finding some way
> to jury rig the RAM boards and rear fan so I don't have to keep stripping
> it down, and see if that works with them ;)
>
> Never give up, never surrender!! ;o)
>
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>
>> On 24 Feb 2018 10:29 pm, "Joshua D. Boyd" <jdboyd at jdboyd.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2/23/2018 7:53 PM, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>>>
>>> I delayed responding until I was able to confirm I what I have. I have a
>>> Dell
>>> Precision t3500 and t5500, both fairly maxed out with riser cards as I
>>> recall.
>>>
>>> The T5500 is virtually, but not actually, silent. Mine is stuffed with 36
>>> Gigs
>>> (?) 9x 4 Gig Dimms IIRC, and 4x SATA HDs. I use the video card that came
>>> with
>>> mine, and it runs Windows 10 great, including Hyper-V.
>>>
>>> It is my main desktop since I acquired it a couple years ago from
>>> dellrefurbished.com.
>>>
>>> Very pleased with them, I'd be certain to get one with lots of RAM and
I'd
>>> locate a populated riser card before committing to the purchase.
>>>
>>> The T3500 is also nice, but not as expandable as I recall.
>>>
>>> I have never laid hands on a T7500.
>>>
>>
>> The T7500 I used to have at $prior_job was definitely not virtually
>> silent.B  That one didn't have the riser card for the second CPU, and I
>> don't know why you would bother with a T7500 unless actually occupying
dual
>> sockets.
>>
>> To my recall, T7500s didn't offer any more CPU performance over T5500s,
>> but they did offer more RAM (192GB versus 72GB), more PCIe slots, more PSU
>> power, integrated SAS controller, and more internal storage (5 drivers
>> versus 2 drives). Also, the chassis is much larger.B  One feature in favor
>> of the T5500 over the T7500 is that the chassis has a rackmount option.
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