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I bought an HP Proliant DL380 G7 with Dual Xeon Hex-Core X5660 at 2.8GHz, 76GB DDR3 RAM, and about 1TB of 15K HDD for $370.
by srmatto 7y ago
I bought an HP Proliant DL380 G7 with Dual Xeon Hex-Core X5660 at 2.8GHz, 76GB DDR3 RAM, and about 1TB of 15K HDD for $370.
- greatjack613 7y agoThe actual hardware is not bad, its just the perf per $ ratio is not great when you compare it to zen 2. Kudos to AMD
- srmatto 7y agoFair, but at $370 I think the ratio gets much better.
- ThrowawayR2 7y agoNot sure it's significantly better after factoring in power and auxiliary costs like cooling.
- roel_v 7y agoNot after you price the power. I have a Xeon system that is plenty powerful for my (C++) dev work, but I'm thinking of replacing it with an AMD build as it'll probably be cheaper over time. Then again, this is at Dutch energy costs, I'd imagine at (say) Texas cost it'd be different.
- bluedino 7y agoI always forget that used servers are dirt cheap in the USA compared to other countries. The other good thing about geting a Dell/HP rack server is you can have 16 drive bays (or more) easily.
- chx 7y agoOn [H]ardForum, a kind user worked out for me a year ago the Handbrake performance comparison of a dual X5670 with some of the fastest consumer CPUs at that time: https://hardforum.com/threads/replacing-dual-x5670.1963388/#post-1043712895 https://hardforum.com/threads/replacing-dual-x5670.1963388/#... turned out the 2700X is 1.95 times as fast in Handbrake as a single X5670.
- aantix 7y agoWhere from?