Hello,
is nowadays a LGA 20311-3 with Xeon E5 V3/V4 still a good bang for the bug to upgrade a home server? Or is it blast from the past?
Can I expect bigger changes in power efficiency or performance for newer platforms? Are there better ways to go today?
For close to a decade, I am running a E3-1230 system with 32 GB RAM on Supermicro X10SL7-F µATX board as home server. File server, backup server and a couple of VMs for all kind of required, helpful and play around staff. It was a good compromise in power consumption, size ("WAF") and performance. What I want to achieve is to go beyond the 32 GB RAM limit (64 GB to 128 GB) and I want more CPU cores by keeping power consumption increase low at the same time. ATX size is fine.
I haven't followed up on the market for years. So I completely lost track on it after Broadwell. I also feel that variety on CPU variants has increased.
Older dual CPU system like Xeon E5-2630 V3/V4 or a newer one CPU system?
Any recommendation for the direction?
I am fine with AMD as well, but I am more familiar with Intel naming.
is nowadays a LGA 20311-3 with Xeon E5 V3/V4 still a good bang for the bug to upgrade a home server? Or is it blast from the past?
Can I expect bigger changes in power efficiency or performance for newer platforms? Are there better ways to go today?
For close to a decade, I am running a E3-1230 system with 32 GB RAM on Supermicro X10SL7-F µATX board as home server. File server, backup server and a couple of VMs for all kind of required, helpful and play around staff. It was a good compromise in power consumption, size ("WAF") and performance. What I want to achieve is to go beyond the 32 GB RAM limit (64 GB to 128 GB) and I want more CPU cores by keeping power consumption increase low at the same time. ATX size is fine.
I haven't followed up on the market for years. So I completely lost track on it after Broadwell. I also feel that variety on CPU variants has increased.
Older dual CPU system like Xeon E5-2630 V3/V4 or a newer one CPU system?
Any recommendation for the direction?
I am fine with AMD as well, but I am more familiar with Intel naming.
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