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This completely overlooks the wonderful D-1541 (only 8 cores/16 threads) through D-1587 (16 cores/32 threads) series of embedded xeons that run at ~45W to ~65W

This completely overlooks the wonderful D-1541 (only 8 cores/16 threads) through D-1587 (16 cores/32 threads) series of embedded xeons that run at ~45W to ~65W compared to 115W of the E5-2670 (which this article says to run 2x of!). http://ark.intel.com/products/93365/Intel-Xeon-Processor-D-1587-24M-Cache-1_70-GHz?q=D-1587 http://ark.intel.com/products/93365/Intel-Xeon-Processor-D-1... If you need just a ton of cores there are more efficient things out there! Not to mention that the D-1541 is available in Mini-ITX with 6 SATA 6.0GBps. While I am not selling these things I have been drooling over them for a while, there are some great guides on tinkertry.com where they demonstrate this server: https://tinkertry.com/superserver-first-impressions https://tinkertry.com/superserver-first-impressions.

fweespee_ch 11y ago
A D-1587 setup like this won't cost you ~$1k in hardware. It might save you $200 a year in electricity costs, but if it costs me +$2k, well, yeah. I'm not going to run this setup 10 years.
- xemdetia 11y ago
  I am definitely more an outlier here. I am very happy to run machines 6 or 7 years as they move from primary system to network appliance. The other main feature I really like about the D-1541 and D-1587 is that they are mini ITX form factor (which fits in most ATX derivative cases) and it is small enough to easily transport from place to place, where the i7 is much too cumbersome to do. My goal is to have a system I am completely comfortable throwing in a backpack or the back of my car and move my entire VM infrastructure to the job at hand- A cloud in the pocket if you will.
FullyFunctional 11y ago
Curiously the D-1587 doesn't show up if you look at http://ark.intel.com/products/family/87041/Intel-Xeon-Processor-D-Family#@Server http://ark.intel.com/products/family/87041/Intel-Xeon-Proces... but I see a very appealing core count/core frequency compromise: http://ark.intel.com/products/93356/Intel-Xeon-Processor-D-1567-18M-Cache-2_10-GHz http://ark.intel.com/products/93356/Intel-Xeon-Processor-D-1...

fweespee_ch 11y ago

A D-1587 setup like this won't cost you ~$1k in hardware. It might save you $200 a year in electricity costs, but if it costs me +$2k, well, yeah. I'm not going to run this setup 10 years.

xemdetia 11y ago
I am definitely more an outlier here. I am very happy to run machines 6 or 7 years as they move from primary system to network appliance. The other main feature I really like about the D-1541 and D-1587 is that they are mini ITX form factor (which fits in most ATX derivative cases) and it is small enough to easily transport from place to place, where the i7 is much too cumbersome to do. My goal is to have a system I am completely comfortable throwing in a backpack or the back of my car and move my entire VM infrastructure to the job at hand- A cloud in the pocket if you will.

FullyFunctional 11y ago

Curiously the D-1587 doesn't show up if you look at http://ark.intel.com/products/family/87041/Intel-Xeon-Processor-D-Family#@Server http://ark.intel.com/products/family/87041/Intel-Xeon-Proces... but I see a very appealing core count/core frequency compromise: http://ark.intel.com/products/93356/Intel-Xeon-Processor-D-1567-18M-Cache-2_10-GHz http://ark.intel.com/products/93356/Intel-Xeon-Processor-D-1...