ES CPUs in Servers...

phill9800

phill9800

phill9800

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Hi everyone :)

From a change of career, nearly 2 years ago, I've had given to me some servers from work. These were due to go to recycling but I've been able to get them home instead (with proper permission I will be clear on that!!)

I've been able to upgrade the X58 based servers to hex cores without too much effort, I've got now some X79 and X99 based servers as well, which I'd love to get working with crunching away.. These aren't run 24/7 since the power costs would literally cripple me lol :)

I was looking at a few X99 based CPUs so Haswell and Broadwell based and found a few ES CPUs that offered not so much the clock speed as you'd guess but a much better core count than I currently have. Both of the servers I do have, are Dell R730's, which have a quad core CPU in there which I found out was a 135w CPU.....
As I'm sure many of you are aware, Crunching is a bit like Mining.. You do things efficiently rather than everything running at 120%...

I was therefore just wondering if anyone had had any experience with ES CPUs in servers and whether or not, they functioned without any hassles at all. I obviously need stability with the crunching for cancer and such like with the world grid.... I've been looking at these Intel Xeon E5-2630 v4 ES as I found them rather cheap...

Has anyone any advice at all about these ES CPUs and if they'd function in the servers ok?

Many thanks in advance :)
 
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I was half expecting that to be honest but sadly I can't seem to find anything around the 8C or higher for less than more than silly money... I know Ryzen would be a much cheaper way of doing things but with the servers being there, I'd like to use them to the best of my ability and theirs really..

Looks like I'm going to have to dig and see if I can find some proper Xeon's as I'm sure it'll be worth it... Now what to try and go for I guess.....
 
I think I might even try and drop back to a V3 CPU if I can find the right CPUs for the right price. I definitely can't afford £500 a CPU for the amount of work/time it will be used. I'd like to kit out 2 servers, each with 2 CPUs so I'd like something that's affordable for what I'd like to do with it and hopefully all 4 would come within £500.. That might be doable (but not right now lol)

I'm hoping for a minimum of 8C 16T CPUs if possible... Time will tell...
 
Kind of the same thing but I see your point :) The two R730's I have use the 2011-3 socket, to which I've been having a bit of a search around to find some low powered CPUs for a start and then a look around of what else I could look for. The X99 MSI board I have currently with my 5960X will also be considered for a Xeon as well since I can use that for backups rather than my Z77 + 2600k.. Another day for discussing that though :)

I've hit the ES thing in the head a reply or two above, so the ES I'm going to avoid and I'll stick with some retail models instead :)

I've found these Xeon E5-2630L V3 which look like they can be had for fairly cheap and being only 55w CPUs, pretty power efficient as well :)

I guess it's a choice thing with how you would like to donate towards cancer whether it be your CPU or cold cash. I have solar panels so costs for power isn't such an issue considering I turn them off when the sun dies out :) Early days yet but the servers will also come in helpful for further learning in my IT career as well as storage for what I have on my Synology box that I'd like to get backed up as well.. I do however, have some servers I'm looking to actually donate to people who wish to crunch for cancer but that's another story altogether :)

I'll possibly put up a build log when I can get something sorted out and the hardware bought I hope to buy :)
 
Oh the solar is a big help for the type of work I do at home, because the amount of juice a few PC's I have use is a little scary at times :) My slightly older kit obviously isn't so efficient and when you see 420w at the wall being taken for just stock settings, it's can get expensive when you have 8 to 10 PC's on. Thankfully, they don't all use that amount of power! :)

I've been having a look around for some slightly older CPUs as well and found some E5-2658 V2's for a silly price (or what I thought was silly) I grabbed them and I'm looking forward to seeing how they perform :) Being V2's I'm sure they aren't going to be ground breaking compared to some of the newer Ryzen CPUs (more on my to buy list or wish list at this point!) but since I have a few servers at home, I'd like to get them up and running doing something that's hopefully going to help someone else or even me later on in life :)

I'm looking to do a donation through Overclockers forums, so I'm going to have to check with the mod's how that might work and go from there. I don't want to cause any problems, just hopefully get some help from a few people and share some hardware in the process :)

I've been looking at some of the CPUs for the V3/V4 and they are both very scary prices...
I'd love to get some higher core counted CPUs, quad cores isn't so great for what I'm trying to get... :)
 
I do/can use VM's, normal VMWare if I'm honest as it's what we have at work, so I've been trying to learn from it.

The reason for the core counts and the Xeon's and servers are the World Grid :) I only really use the PCs I have whenever the sun is out so I try not to run much over night.. I really couldn't afford the electric bill if everything was running, that would put me in an early grave!!

Yep, understand completely about the different CPU version releases :) I've a few versions of Xeon based servers, so I'm trying to make the best of all of them if I can :) Currently I have a few more servers than I require, 13 if I'm completely honest. I would like to donate some to a few people and get them onboard with the World Grid :) More on that later, I'll see if I can reach out to a mod first, I don't wish to be doing anything against the rules :)

My 22U rack is kinda of full, but hopefully a give away might sort that out :) I'm unsure tho how much interest a X58 based server would be to most people...
 
I've 6 of those currently lol :) Mostly Dell kit but everything works as far as I know without any issues :) I could post up a pic if needed, I could always start another thread as well I don't mind :)
 
Decided and was able to grab some (I think) fairly decent priced V2 CPUs for my X79/Socket R server just waiting for another heatsink to turn up for it but both CPUs tested and working fine :)

Now I just need to find something for my two R730's......
 
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