Server with 1080p graphics

GodAtum · 6 Mar 2016 at 22:20

I'm looking for a cheap server with HDMI/DVI out to connect a 1080p HD monitor too. It seems the only way is to buy something like a 2nd hand Dell r900 for £400, then put a Nvidia GT 610 in. Anyone have any other ideas?

tribz · 7 Mar 2016 at 09:58

How powerful to you want the server to be? The Gen 8 Microservers have PCIe slots in them. You'd have a lot of change out of £400 also.

GodAtum · 7 Mar 2016 at 11:06

It would be nice to have a beefier processor, a multi-core near 3GHz and at least 16GB RAM. A plus would be reduntant PSUs too.

#Chri5# · 7 Mar 2016 at 11:21

A Dell T20 has a Xeon 3Ghz, a PCIe 16x and a 290W PSU. No redundant PSU but possibly hard to beat for £210 after cashback.

ace-rimmer · 7 Mar 2016 at 17:32

servers don't have 16x slots do they? not seen one with anyway only up to 8x

might have to use a dell precision t7500 or somet.

drakioned · 8 Mar 2016 at 16:45

There's plenty of servers with many 16x slots... not sure it works with the goal of cheap.

drakioned · 8 Mar 2016 at 16:47

Actually the HP Microserver has a 16x slot, you can drop a Xeon and 16GB ram in them too.

Snapshot · 8 Mar 2016 at 17:23

You could always build your own. There some very nice small four or five bay cases from CFI; your choice of mini-ITX mobo and CPU. If you had your trust configured so you could access the members market I could offer you one I built earlier....

Armageus · 8 Mar 2016 at 17:28

Any reason it has to be dvi/hdmi? VGA should still work at 1080p.

GodAtum · 8 Mar 2016 at 19:39

Snapshot said:
You could always build your own. There some very nice small four or five bay cases from CFI; your choice of mini-ITX mobo and CPU. If you had your trust configured so you could access the members market I could offer you one I built earlier....

i dont understand what you mean, whats CFI?

drakioned · 9 Mar 2016 at 06:47

I think he means these people: CFI.

Those cases do look pretty swish.

Snapshot · 9 Mar 2016 at 08:46

That's right. I've built a couple of servers using this one and they work very well.

edscdk · 9 Mar 2016 at 08:56

you do realise that even an atom cpu can decode 4k video when paired with the correct ideo card... ?

MasterPlan1 · 15 Mar 2016 at 12:05

I'm currently planning on buying a pair of Lenovo D20's, they come in at £250 with 48Gb of RAM and 2xQC Westmere Xeon's..

kefkef · 15 Mar 2016 at 22:27

Should be trying a Cisco UCS C240M4 with dual Nvidia K2 Grid cards with 768Gb memory per system. Not sure they qualify as cheap though.............

faxfan · 16 Mar 2016 at 09:27

GPU's don't need 16x, 8x will work just fine. Even my when I moved my Titan X from 8x to 16x is made absolutely no difference in any benchmark.