Re:The Intel Xeon E7-8800 v3 Review: The POWER8 Killer?
by chubot on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @11:57AM
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Can anyone recommend a pre-built server with high end specs like this, which is more like a turnkey experience? For example, I bought a Dell desktop, installed Ubuntu on it, and everything just worked (the things that didn't work were my network).
I guess I want something that distros test on -- I would have said Debian, but Ubuntu does seem to have better driver support.
Price is not a big consideration; I just want to see what something "easy" is like and how much it costs.
As far as reliability is concerned, while we little reason to doubt that the quad Xeon OEM systems out there are the pinnacle of reliability, our initial experience with Xeon E7 v3 has not been as rosy. Our updated and upgraded Quad Xeon Brickland system was only finally stable after many firmware updates, with its issues sorted out just a few hours before the launch of the Xeon E7 v3. Unfortunately this means our time testing the stable Xeon E7 v3 was a bit more limited than we would have liked.
I guess I want something that distros test on -- I would have said Debian, but Ubuntu does seem to have better driver support.
Price is not a big consideration; I just want to see what something "easy" is like and how much it costs.
From page 8, http://anandtech.com/show/9193/the-xeon-e78800-v3-review/8 :
As far as reliability is concerned, while we little reason to doubt that the quad Xeon OEM systems out there are the pinnacle of reliability, our initial experience with Xeon E7 v3 has not been as rosy. Our updated and upgraded Quad Xeon Brickland system was only finally stable after many firmware updates, with its issues sorted out just a few hours before the launch of the Xeon E7 v3. Unfortunately this means our time testing the stable Xeon E7 v3 was a bit more limited than we would have liked.