Which Old Xeon machine

[OspreyO]

Work is dumping old machines. I was going to save for for use as a general purpose machine, encoding/VM/Database, graphics work and some light gaming maybe. (Already have a i3 3220/Radeon 7750 at home as a light gaming machine for the kids). I mainly use a laptop though. But some jobs, I don't want to do on the Laptop.

I have a choice of a HPZ600 or a Dell T7500. They all have 2xE5506 Quads.
The Dell can take more ram, 1000w vs 650w PSU. But I think its just too massive at home.
I'm thinking of just taking the Z600 as its much lighter and really the performance will be similar.
I might get some better fast clocked CPU's even 6 core ones if find them cheap. I doubt I'll upgrade the RAM much beyond the 8GB that is in it.

https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/what-were-the-best-lga-1366-workstations.2434197/

Is there really any reason I'm missing that I should go the for Dell over the T7500. I'm not sure I could find space for it. Never mind do myself an injury lifting it!

 

[Armageus]

Z600 without a doubt - the T7500 uses a horrible looking daughterboard for the 2nd CPU, which means the cooling system looks to be a complete mess (unlike the Z600 which looks fairly like a normal PC.

 

[OspreyO]

Yeah the daughter board gives you 12 ram slots (6 sockets on motherboard + 6 sockets w/riser card) thus a max of 192GB.
But the Dell then allows you to use say cheap 12x2GB sticks. The Z600 has 6 slots for a max of 96GB.

But as you say its a mess inside.

I think there some difference for Graphics cards, in terms of PCI power/speed. I'm a long time out of gfx cards, But if I do get a gfx card in it, it will be a bottom end 1050 or such. Currently I have a FX1800 in it,