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Ironically HP has a machine called the G4 in the Z8 lineup, though it uses a Xeon chip. Btw, I’m surprised you like the Z8 series. The single core and sum comp
by leoh 4y ago
Ironically HP has a machine called the G4 in the Z8 lineup, though it uses a Xeon chip.
Btw, I’m surprised you like the Z8 series. The single core and sum compute with total of cores looks like a terrible value (eg when looking at various benchmarks for the Xeon) — ie thousands of dollars for a machine with a chip that appears far less powerful than the latest i7s or Ryzens.
Curious what I’m missing.
- jeffbee 4y agoThe Z8 is a great machine. I still use mine even thought I also have an M1 and the latest Intel. That thing is stuffed full of SSDs. It has 2 PCIe x8 slots above the CPUs, without rear panel cutouts, that accept riser boards for m.2 SSDs. The C622 chipset has 2x 10gb ethernet controllers built-in, so while the 10gb ports are optional, they don't take up a PCIe slot. The internal air duct and all the cabling are well designed. Compared to my whitebox PC that I built myself, it's incredibly clean and integrated.
- touisteur 4y ago(multiple) GPU, lots of cores (some z8 are dual proc too), lots of opportunity for nvme and loaaads of memory (with ECC) is what I like in z8 workstations.
- mk_stjames 4y agoMy Z840 is a few years old.. almost 8 years old actually. It is a dual Xeon with 32 cores and 256GB of ECC ram which is important for the computational fluid dynamics software I use. Brand new this machine would have probably been $20k... I purchased it for just about $2000 and this was years ago, they can be had for much less now. These type of workstations for CAD, CFD, FEA engineering work are very lucrative when purchased second hand as compared to buying new.
- FpUser 4y agoI have similar Z840 but with the crappiest video card I could buy and stuffed with 512GB RAM. It sits in my basement and hosts some backend software that I wrote for the company I own. Amazingly quiet as well. Bought it for peanuts in specialized store close to my place. They do nothing but refurbish and sell servers and workstations. I bought mine for about 3,000 Canadian pesos. Works like a charm for few years already.