Forget those shit-tier gaymen PCs, post your Xeon/Opteron workstations/servers, and what you use them for.
Dual E5-2670s, 32GB ECC, and a 7970.
For VMs, Android development, OpenCL data analysis, and general dicking around, all at the same time if need be
>>54514086
Sorry i have no pic of my server but this thread has potential.
Posting the speccy of my server in pic realted
Simple FTP and Apache server for testing shit
>>54514086
It's in a case now, but dual E5472s and 16GB DDR2-FBDIMMS, RAM's gotten to 117 Celcuis under load. Just Virtualbox and web stuff
>>54514086
Balance out that RAM man...
>>54514512
For whatever reason, channel B on the first socket doesn't recognize it, it does look really bad though
>>54514554
Guessing from the blue accents on the board is that an asus WS board? They offer hella-great service for that line and their server kit. I'd contact them
>>54514629
It's an AsRock Rack EP2C602-4L/D16, it's probably something simple, I'll look into it if I ever upgrade
Postin shit-tier server
mainly VM, storage, tad of gayming
I have a 5820k and 32GB of RAM, which would beat most of these xeons in any real contest, but guess it's not server grade enough for you guys
:c
>>54514734
you may have us on boot times m8, full 1:30 to pass BIOS to grub
>>54514675
Oh, assrock. Hey ho better luck next time
>>54514758
Single core performance and memory bandwidth as well.
I have ~61,000MB/s memory bandwidth on this setup.
>>54514734
If you use it as a server then is a server, faggot
>>54514734
>6 core 12 thread beats 16C 32T
>>54514734
Yeah, it'd beat my 24 thread 96GB machine, totally m8
>>54514086
>forget those shit-tier gaymen PCs
>has a shitty gaymen GPU
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>>54514789
You haven't posted it so i guess i'll have to wait until you do.
>>54514786
In single core performance for sure. and because the single core performance is so much higher, unless you're doing VERY highly paralleleizd work, the 5820k will probably be more powerful overall. but of course it would depend on the specific work load.
>>54514807
And no redundant psu!
>>54514807
It was cheap and it does pretty good in terms of raw compute performance, and it keeps it warm in the winter
My http server.
ooh la la
>>54514807
And consumer grade cooling and storage!
old old old pic
>>54515063
XW6400? I still love my 8600 just as a test bench, however awful FB-DIMMs may be
>>54515170
it does the job as a media server, Hosting Teamspeak and regular stuff as checking the news for my family
>>54515170
also has no problems playing games etc, might put my 390 into it when the 1080 comes out, if it is way better than the 390 with DX 12 tho. overkill but why not
>>54514922
What board do you have?
>>54515292
You could always throw two $20 5472s in there for roughly double the performance too if you wanted to balance it out
>>54515394
gonna check up on that, have been looking for used Xeons to put in it.
This's my hobo tier home server. Mumble and autismblocks, maybe something else too now that it's got more headroom. Phenom II 955, 8GB DDR2, old 320GB WD Caviar Blue HDD that I'm looking to swap. A lot more machine than I need but it leaves me room to grow.
Sorry for big image
Seeing as it's primary useage is workstation and it's X99, does this count? lolol
>>54515554
It's surely hot in there
>>54515572
Those temps were under a gaming load after like three hours. They're normally just a few degrees above this.
>>54515572
>that water loop
>those fans
>hot
lol no
guess I'll have to miss this thread then
whatever fags, youll NEVER understand
I edit videos for work on mine occasionally, does that count?
>>54514675
>ASSRock
That's your problem
Should have SuperMicro'd
>>54517702
Thinking of building a dual LGA-2011 workstation as an engineering student. Should I go with:
>Asus Z10PE-D16 WS (pic related) which features SLI, M.2, black/grey/gold color scheme, and allows for subtle overclocks to Xeons if you have the cooling capacity to do so
>some Supermicro server board (no SLI, IDK if any support M.2, fewer USB ports on server boards vs workstation boards)
>>54518019
Supermicro 2011-v3 boards do support M.2, but I've only seen single socket boards with them so far.
desu senpai I think PCIe SSDs are better than M.2 on server boards purely for cooling reasons. Those SSDs usually have heatsinks built in, whereas M.2 slots are almost always located near the hottest components on the motherboard (either right next to the first graphics card slot or the chipset heatsink)
>>54518178
Intel's 400GB 750 series gets expensive at $400, esp if I only need 256GB for my boot drive (Samsung 950 Pro costs half the price with similar performance). Other PCIe SSDs with different storage technologies are under-performing in comparison.
>>54515554
>linustechtips fans
linus pls go
>>54518410
They are the special edition Noctua fans they made for Linus, black casing, black blades, black anti-vibration pads.However they come with bright ass orange stickers, he put on the alternate stickers which are black.
Probably some of the best fans you can get, the major complaint of the Noctuas is the cream color with shit brown. The Linus edition gets rid of that primary gripe.
>>54518019
>as an engineering student
for what purpose?
You could run most cad programs pretty well on a laptoo
>>54518019
isn't that asus model expensive as fuck?
or i believe it was the d8
>>54518510
Electrical/computer engineering so I need more raw CPU power as opposed to graphics. Idk, should I just hold on to my FX-8350 desktop?
>>54518567
As a student you wont need it unless youre doing something for a phd thesis.
Got a masters in compE, using the shittiest computers you have ever seen. Only had to use my desktop for altium designer.
Id say keep what you got unless you really want to upgrade, don't think you'll use much more than what a first gen mobile i3 can deliver.
>>54518306
>caring about raw performance that only impresses during canned benchmarks
M8, most decent PCIe SSDs are better than M.2 drives when it comes to stability, built-in ECC, encryption, and other features. It's not all about peak speeds (which not even the SM951 and 950 PRO can maintain for more than a few minutes due to thermal throttling). Try using an M.2 to boot off of several VMs at once. You'll run into instability issues long before write speeds becomes an issue.
There is a very good reason why the enterprise world prefers PCIe SSDs over M.2 and why most modern chipset server boards skimp out on M.2 support over PCIe 3.0 support.
>>54518602
>unless youre doing something for a phd thesis.
and in this case your advisor will probably give you a budget to buy something.
I remember when my dad was doing his PhD he was given a budget of around $5,000 to spec out a high end Mac pro desktop. he could never have afforded something like that out of pocket though.
>>54518639
Yeah, depends where you go/ what you're doing. Any funding i got for stuff was used 100% on hardware and materials, along with a good chunk of my money.
Stay away from broke state schools if you can anon.
>>54518567
Find a used hex-core Xeon E5 (either a non v or v2 version on the original 2011 socket) and buy it. They can be had for as little as $150 each, so you can buy two 6-core/12-threaded Xeons for the price of a single i7-6700k. It's just that reasonably priced dual socketed motherboards are as rare as hen's teeth these days, even when used.
>>54518567
also if you're just starting out, odds are you arent doing shit til your 3rd year other than math and physics.
>>54518684
My dad's PhD was pretty specialized (astrophysics) at Ohio State University, so they had a large budget.
But, if you're having to pay much out of pocket, you're doing it wrong.
>>54518722
>my dad's
State schools used to have money in the 80's early 90's.
>>54517702
I got a $350 SuperMicro board originally but it threw a fit and didn't work at all with my Corsair PSU, the AsRock board was $175 with all the same features and it actually worked (besides one memory channel)
>>54514086
I have a Dell R810 with 64 logical cores and 512GB of ram. Here is one of my Windows 2012 servers, it hosts several gaming servers and teamspeak server.
>>54519134
ASRock is cheaper because they cheap out on the components. I have their famous C2750 Atom motherboard and it is a miserable little thing:
>memory has trouble supporting 16GB ECC DIMMs without reverting to single channel mode
>If you occupy all the SATA ports that aren't from the SoC/chipset, the controllers for those ports bug out and you get corruption on those disks
>SATA controller often crashes after 72 hours of operation, ASRock support has yet to get back to my 5 support tickets I opened because of this issue
>heatsink does not have good contact with the CPU, temperatures often spike to high 60s and 70s at medium load unless you have a Delta fan blowing on it at all times
>ethernet ports uses i210T NICs, which are fine, but port teaming is done via the ASRock's own controllers and not the NICs themselves, leading to one of the ports shutting down during high-bandwidth usage
Good idea in concept, but man ASRock, what the fuck is up with the execution. You can't even use all 12 SATA ports on it without losing stability and needing to reboot to get those drives recognized again.
>>54519532
Also, their support is fucking awful. They often take weeks, if not months to get back to you, if they even bother to at all. I'm still waiting to hear back from them about the SATA port issues, and it's been 4 weeks already. Supermicro got back to me in under 48 hours about the shoddy Ethernet port connection I had on my C222 motherboard.
>>54519263
>16.0GB EDO @ 66MHz
>EDO
thanks for the flashback to the 90s and almost losing an eye when the metal retaining tab snapped trying to install one of those stupid things.
>>54518446
Ayyy this guy gets it.
![66d297bb_IMAG0392[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/8HxtjcU.jpg "66d297bb_IMAG0392[1].jpg")
Not mine, but same guts. It's my primary server that I use for hosting my website and public archives among other things, as well as remote work through SSH, mostly note taking, email checking and X forwarding StarOffice to other Unix gear with nothing in the way of productivity.
specs blog nobody gives a fuck about:
>650 MHz UltraSPARC IIe+
>2 GB ECC PC-133 RAM
>single 120 GB Seagate Barracuda ATA
>Solaris 10
>>54518019
I kinda want to do a dual-2011 build but fuck me the cpus are expensive (and it's not real clear which ones I can use for dual socket so looking for used is a pain in the arse too)
>>54523261
For 2011 you can tell which Xeons can be multi-socketed by the first number.
16XX means one CPU only, these are typically similar to the HEDT consumer chips but with VT-d and ECC support, may have unlocked multiplier.
26XX is dual-socket, they're much more expensive and can't be overclocked except for a 5% (avg) BCLK boost.
46XX and 88XX obviously mean 4-way and 8-way socket configurations.
>>54523963
Also, any chip that can work in a larger array can also work stand-alone or in any smaller configuration, so you don't need two 2600's or four 4600's for the system to boot, you can have a 4600 in 1, 2 and 4-way systems for example, even though it'd be wasteful to do so (unless you just happen to score one for really cheap).
>>54523261
Op here, my whole build was ~$700, used server parts are crazy cheap
