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$1800 for a 1U server in a 24C/48T and 64GB of RAM configuration? These are incredibly competitive. How much cheaper are whitebox versions of the same thing if
by stu2010 7y ago
$1800 for a 1U server in a 24C/48T and 64GB of RAM configuration? These are incredibly competitive. How much cheaper are whitebox versions of the same thing if this is the HP premium price?
- jcims 7y ago1U fans drive me crazy. Are there any vendors that plumb these for liquid cooling?
- ianai 7y agoYes, but in my experience they can be problematic. Servers do best in rooms away from people.
- tomnipotent 7y agoNoctua fans are your best bet - they're drastically less noisy than any other fans I've come across.
- StillBored 7y agoAnd they move dramatically less air than those little blowers they put in 1U machines. Sure at lower speeds they are quieter, but when you really need to remove the heat its hard to beat spinning at 4x the RPM, which is noisy.
- ThrowawayR2 7y agoNot that I've ever heard of, except for a few unaffordably high-end servers that put out absurd amounts of heat. Rackmount servers are meant for datacenters, where noise levels are generally not a concern.
- twotwotwo 7y agoDon't know a place to get it prebuilt, but building an EPYC "desktop" can be a lot like building a TR one. There are ATX server mobos. TR4 coolers should work with EPYC; Noctua explicitly says theirs do, and the physical socket and TDPs match. You might want TR for the higher frequencies, though. I guess you could use EPYC for a very expandable 16C machine, or to pay a bit less for lower clocks, though I don't know if it ends up worth the fuss.
- jmg2 7y agoBull
- JackRabbitSlim 7y agoAnnoyingly, not very much cheaper and the security blanket of "HPE" for management made them a default choice. Their premium comes with shit like the 200 dollar "enablement" card full of passive component.