Older Xeon systems (v3, v4) give you oodles of cores, main memory channels, and PCIe lanes. Single-threaded performance isn't great, but for multi-threaded workloads they're great value for the money and power.
Compare those threadripper systems to R730, T7910, and T7810, with E5-2680 and E5-2690 processors, and see which makes sense to you and your use-case.
The prices don’t seem to be competitive with the Epyc chips mentioned above.
Still a nice mention as I come in contact with these every once in a while.
Regarding the pre built systems I didnt mention I’m tight on space. Max depth of my rack is 20 inches. I can increase the height of a custom system and thats the plan.
Hold up, I stand corrected. These prebuilts come with a nice amount of hardware alone.
Interesting, this is going to be a tough decision
Thanks! 🙏
Where do you get your information?
Thanks! 🙏
Quite welcome :-)
Where do you get your information?
A few places:
eBay for figuring out modern prices -- E5-2660v3 can be had for about $15, E5-2698v4 for about $110
Also eBay for figuring out what servers are available for cheap with a particular socket interface
This very subreddit of course :-) y'all rock