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It has PCIE lanes, what, other than price, stops you from buying a rack, sticking a graphics card in it, and calling it a workstation?
by gpm 6y ago
It has PCIE lanes, what, other than price, stops you from buying a rack, sticking a graphics card in it, and calling it a workstation?
- sjwright 6y agoProbably a lack of time resources for unbounded experimentation with unsupported configurations of expensive, non-mainstream hardware. Not all of us have the luxury to be a recreational sysadmin in our spare time.
- gpm 6y agoI struggle to imagine what you expect from running a desktop OS on an 80 core ARM cpu if it doesn't involve becoming a recreational sysadmin. That's definitely bleeding edge territory no matter the form factor the hardware ships in.
- rbanffy 6y agoTwo reasons, mostly. Aesthetics is a big thing - rackmount servers are ugly and, unless there are panels covering it, they are horrendous deskside workstations. Another one is noise. These boxes are designed for environments where sounding like a vacuum cleaner is not an issue. Because of that, they sound like vacuum cleaners, with tiny whiny fans running at high speeds instead of more sedated larger fans and bigger heat exchangers. HP sold, for some time, the ZX6000 workstation that was mostly a rack server with a nice-looking mount. If someone decided to sell that mount, it'd solve reason #1, at least.
- greggyb 6y agoShove it in a full tower case. You can mount most server hardware easily in such a case. At that point, you can cool with big slow fans.
- ed25519FUUU 6y agoRacks are horribly loud! Do they even have a fan speed other than "insane"?