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Hello Xeon D 8 core 16 thread, 2.1 GHz base clock, 2.8 turbo, latest tick, latest tock, supports up to 128 gig ram so double the i7, mini itx boards @ 800 doll

Hello Xeon D 8 core 16 thread, 2.1 GHz base clock, 2.8 turbo, latest tick, latest tock, supports up to 128 gig ram so double the i7, mini itx boards @ 800 dollars including processor. No GPU though. Nice thing is, it does ECC ram. Oh and, 10Gbe. Awesome product. Not for gamers but superb for devs IMO. Throw in a gtx980 for display/compute, 1TB ssd, plus said 128 gig ecc ddr4 @ 1200 dollars, and you can do top-of-range mac pro class power for a third of the price. IE around 3.5k dollars before monitor for a very serious little rig. And if you're creative there are some stunning gamer cases for the mini itx form factor.

arielweisberg 11y ago
Oh that is pretty reasonable.
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jrockway 11y ago
Where do I buy a Xeon D? The ARK lists them all as sold in "TRAY" form which in my experience means "not for you".
- vegabook 11y ago
  check out newegg. They come from Supermicro, Gigabyte, and I think Asus does a line too. They're pretty new so I think only Supermicro is currently listed but they come from at least 4 manufacturers now in Mini ITX form - so fitting hundreds of consumer-class (and often awesome - this is the sweet spot for gamers) small form factor cases. Google "Xeon D Mini ITX". Make sure you get the 8C/16T version not the 4/8 version. You want the 1540 or 1541 versions, not 152x. Supermicro is proper server-class stuff - no messin' around - the others will be slightly cheaper but they're more sporadically available at mo. Also check if you need 10GbE - that costs about 100 dollars more. Still, all will work perfectly as a desktop in a mini-ITX case, and that is a nice small form factor. We're not talking about a huge ugly hunk of box here. This is going to be "build your own" btw but anybody who's used a philips screwdriver can do this. Here in UK I have the total mentioned above at just over 2200 GBP including PSU and a cute Corsair case (http://is.gd/0pfKhg http://is.gd/0pfKhg) so we're talking 3300ish dollars leaving 200 left for a pro mech KB and mouse. For the ram I had Crucial supply me for 780 british pounds (1200 USD ish) for 128 GB of 2400Mhz DDR4 ECC DIMMs (4 x 32 - there are only 4 slots so don't do 8 x 16), which works with these boards. As I said total including RAM about 2200 pounds so 3300 dollars. Or if you don't need 128GB start off with 64, say, but stick with the 32GB DIMMs so you can upgrade later. http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=supermicro+xeon+d&N=-1&isNodeId=1 http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DE...
  - jrockway 11y ago
    Ahh, so they're soldered on to the motherboard. I was just looking for that sort of form factor over the weekend (as a way of getting the low-power 6th-gen i7s... but didn't think to look for Xeon). I will have to consider this. I run a Mini-ITX board in a Micro-ATX case anyway. Perfect form factor.
  - seanp2k2 11y ago
    Thanks, this seems like a good upgrade route from my current Avoton-based FreeNAS (8 cores, fanless, 2.4ghz, 64GB of ECC DDR3, 16 PCI-E v2 lanes, VT-x) http://ark.intel.com/m/products/77987/Intel-Atom-Processor-C2750-4M-Cache-2_40-GHz#@product/specifications http://ark.intel.com/m/products/77987/Intel-Atom-Processor-C... Asrock Rack made some nice boards with onboard IPMI, dual Intel gigabit NICs, and 8x SATA. Kind of pricey but still under $500 for the board back in 2013. Been a great board: http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=C2750D4I#Specifications http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=C2... Here's their Xeon D stuff: http://www.asrockrack.com/general/products.asp#Server http://www.asrockrack.com/general/products.asp#Server Denverton is the successor to Avoton; 16 cores, 16 lanes of PCI-E v3, 10GbE, DDR4: http://www.fudzilla.com/news/processors/39156-intel-s-denverton-has-16-next-generation-cpu-cores http://www.fudzilla.com/news/processors/39156-intel-s-denver... Haven't heard anything about it for months, though.

arielweisberg 11y ago

Oh that is pretty reasonable.

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jrockway 11y ago

Where do I buy a Xeon D? The ARK lists them all as sold in "TRAY" form which in my experience means "not for you".

vegabook 11y ago
check out newegg. They come from Supermicro, Gigabyte, and I think Asus does a line too. They're pretty new so I think only Supermicro is currently listed but they come from at least 4 manufacturers now in Mini ITX form - so fitting hundreds of consumer-class (and often awesome - this is the sweet spot for gamers) small form factor cases. Google "Xeon D Mini ITX". Make sure you get the 8C/16T version not the 4/8 version. You want the 1540 or 1541 versions, not 152x. Supermicro is proper server-class stuff - no messin' around - the others will be slightly cheaper but they're more sporadically available at mo. Also check if you need 10GbE - that costs about 100 dollars more. Still, all will work perfectly as a desktop in a mini-ITX case, and that is a nice small form factor. We're not talking about a huge ugly hunk of box here. This is going to be "build your own" btw but anybody who's used a philips screwdriver can do this. Here in UK I have the total mentioned above at just over 2200 GBP including PSU and a cute Corsair case (http://is.gd/0pfKhg http://is.gd/0pfKhg) so we're talking 3300ish dollars leaving 200 left for a pro mech KB and mouse. For the ram I had Crucial supply me for 780 british pounds (1200 USD ish) for 128 GB of 2400Mhz DDR4 ECC DIMMs (4 x 32 - there are only 4 slots so don't do 8 x 16), which works with these boards. As I said total including RAM about 2200 pounds so 3300 dollars. Or if you don't need 128GB start off with 64, say, but stick with the 32GB DIMMs so you can upgrade later. http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=supermicro+xeon+d&N=-1&isNodeId=1 http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DE...
- jrockway 11y ago
  Ahh, so they're soldered on to the motherboard. I was just looking for that sort of form factor over the weekend (as a way of getting the low-power 6th-gen i7s... but didn't think to look for Xeon). I will have to consider this. I run a Mini-ITX board in a Micro-ATX case anyway. Perfect form factor.
- seanp2k2 11y ago
  Thanks, this seems like a good upgrade route from my current Avoton-based FreeNAS (8 cores, fanless, 2.4ghz, 64GB of ECC DDR3, 16 PCI-E v2 lanes, VT-x) http://ark.intel.com/m/products/77987/Intel-Atom-Processor-C2750-4M-Cache-2_40-GHz#@product/specifications http://ark.intel.com/m/products/77987/Intel-Atom-Processor-C... Asrock Rack made some nice boards with onboard IPMI, dual Intel gigabit NICs, and 8x SATA. Kind of pricey but still under $500 for the board back in 2013. Been a great board: http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=C2750D4I#Specifications http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=C2... Here's their Xeon D stuff: http://www.asrockrack.com/general/products.asp#Server http://www.asrockrack.com/general/products.asp#Server Denverton is the successor to Avoton; 16 cores, 16 lanes of PCI-E v3, 10GbE, DDR4: http://www.fudzilla.com/news/processors/39156-intel-s-denverton-has-16-next-generation-cpu-cores http://www.fudzilla.com/news/processors/39156-intel-s-denver... Haven't heard anything about it for months, though.