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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by srmatto on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @01:37PM (#20688197)
I bought an HP Proliant DL380 G7 with Dual Xeon Hex-Core X5660 at 2.8GHz, 76GB DDR3 RAM, and about 1TB of 15K HDD for $370.
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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by chx on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @02:07PM (#20688596)
On [H]ardForum, a kind user worked out for me a year ago the Handbrake performance comparison of a dual X5670 with some of the fastest consumer CPUs at that time: https://hardforum.com/threads/replacing-dual-x5670.1963388/#... turned out the 2700X is 1.95 times as fast in Handbrake as a single X5670.
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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by bluedino on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @02:03PM (#20688533)
I always forget that used servers are dirt cheap in the USA compared to other countries.

The other good thing about geting a Dell/HP rack server is you can have 16 drive bays (or more) easily.

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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by greatjack613 on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @01:39PM (#20688216)
The actual hardware is not bad, its just the perf per $ ratio is not great when you compare it to zen 2.

Kudos to AMD

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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by srmatto on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @01:44PM (#20688278)
Fair, but at $370 I think the ratio gets much better.
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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by roel_v on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @01:54PM (#20688412)
Not after you price the power. I have a Xeon system that is plenty powerful for my (C++) dev work, but I'm thinking of replacing it with an AMD build as it'll probably be cheaper over time. Then again, this is at Dutch energy costs, I'd imagine at (say) Texas cost it'd be different.
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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by ThrowawayR2 on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @01:48PM (#20688341)
Not sure it's significantly better after factoring in power and auxiliary costs like cooling.
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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by aantix on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @03:04PM (#20689144)
Where from?
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