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> I've said in other comments my 4790K is getting a bit old at this point, not slow for most stuff, but definitely hungry for more cores for a lot of tasks, and

> I've said in other comments my 4790K is getting a bit old at this point, not slow for most stuff, but definitely hungry for more cores for a lot of tasks, and looking to break past 32gb of ram. I'd also been considering Epyc or even Xeon, as older/used Xeons can be very well priced. I’m in nearly the exact some boat. I’d like to have ECC ram the second time around for my home server, which the Zen chips reportedly support though I don’t see people using. I’d also like better power usage. I think I’m going to wait one more year.

tracker1 7y ago
Just got a used Dell, dual 8-core CPUs and 128GB ECC ... main purpose is for a NAS and it'll sit in the garage because of the noise. I may look into what CPU upgrades are available and maybe throw some heavier workloads at it. For now, planning on just playing around with it. I haven't decided if I'll be running Windows or Linux as the base OS yet.
- dev_dull 7y ago
  Is it a rack server? I found the power usage too high on those servers compared to more traditional servers.
  - tracker1 7y ago
    It's a standard 2U enclosure... haven't tested the power usage, but it's a relatively current Intel CPU (E5000 series iirc), so should idle reasonably well.