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This is actually significant news as there are massive amounts of these machines around. They are still quite powerful considering they are about 12 years old
by sireat 4y ago
This is actually significant news as there are massive amounts of these machines around.
They are still quite powerful considering they are about 12 years old (Sandy Bridge era).
Hopefully they add 8300s as well.
HP really makes/used make machines pleasant to upgrade and service around that time.
- Riku_V 4y agoI have an 8300 USDT too, but I don't think it's supported in Coreboot yet. Will be looking onto that too hopefully sometime.
- zh3 4y agoI've got a bunch of these around, either multi-booting diskless (Devuan/Debian/Windows), more than enough for browsing, video calls and light development. Spec is E8400's at 3GHz/4Gb RAM, 1G ethernet, display port and decent sound ('lspci' shows wall-to-wall Intel parts). In USFF ('USDT') format they're great little systems for the price (on ebay they go for less than the cost of the Windows licence they come with, and if they're from a pro-recycler the licence often isn't even locked to the hardware). Edit: Oh, and being HP they are pretty much clip together, no screwdrivers needed.
- Riku_V 4y agoAlso, if you are generally friendly to the IT person, you may get a few of these for free when they discard these to upgrade. That's how I got mine, anyway.
- justsomehnguy 4y agoWhile I ran a Beowulf Hyper-V cluster on these (in production) I wouldn't call them 'quite' powerful for today's needs. I had a stint with PhotoPrism recently and it was faster to upload gigabytes of photos to my Xeon E5-26xx server and run PhotoPrism there (including transfer time) than wait for it to complete the face recognition on my desktop with the Ivy Bridge CPU. But for a bare packet pusher ie file server, PiHole and the like I would agree it would be more than just fine.