Recent content by CyberianSoldier

GPUs and all other assorted goodies are included with that price. I am taking offers. If someone wants all the equipment I'm certainly happy to have one transaction.

I keep getting questions about the hard drives/networking equipment. The drives are all 74 GB 15k drives. The networking equipment entails 48 port 1gb switches, two of them are the quanta switches with the 10gb uplinks. I'm not super interested in selling these individually, I'd rather get rid...

3x sl6500 chassis - 8x sl230s gen 8 nodes each - each node has 2x E5-2660 (8 c, 2.6 ghz) and 8 GB ddr3 ecc memory. (128 cores per chassis, 64 GB ram / chassis) - 3x 1200w platinum plus power supplies - (optional) r5/r7 240x / 340x gpus for each node - 3500$ per loaded chassis 1x dl580 gen...

no, they use ~200 watts per fan. I have 3 nodes running and it's burning 18 Amps at 210V. The fan uses 12V and up to ~15Amps.

Honestly, I just picked up one of these things. But the fans use ~200 watts each. at 2000 watts for just the cooling, I'm not sure this is the best for energy efficiency. I'd be curious to see what people suggest. Great price on the chassis though!

I don't think it's a pricing error. price history on this item shows a steady decline in price over a few months.

Lot of 2 Nortel Avaya 5698TFD-PWR 96 Port POE 1000Mb/s Gigabit Ethernet Switch | eBay I was seeing these go for really cheap last month or so. Even 100$ a switch isn't bad in my opinion if you really need "20" POE switches.

I got the non poe model for 20$+ shipping. I know poe adds a bit, but I almost bought one by accident. It's not going to be new, but still, check out the 96 port poe switches. I'll find a link.

I think you can get 48 Port ones on eBay for ~50-60$, but I could be wrong. Not exactly something I have a use for just yet.

Yeah, you can do that. Probably not worth the risk. I know I need 4x CPU ports, so either I find the right supermicro PSU, or I get a consumer one and split each CPU output into two CPU 8 pin plugs. I don't know if that's a good idea though. It is my understanding that they pull from the same...

Making it quiet isn't really the hard part right now, huge heatsinks, quiet fans will do the trick just fine. Sourcing components is rather difficult, as even finding motherboards is rather costly, and powering them looks to be difficult or requires custom wiring. Unfortunately that blade server...

So, I've been looking at some boards. I really would like to build a quad socket / 8 socket, quiet server. (Lga 2011). Looking at the available motherboards, I notice that the ones that use what appears to use an ATX power supply have 4 8pin cpu power inputs. Where do I find such a powersupply...

50$ worth of ram. procs are ~50-100$ each. I don't really shop for dell stuff, but even at 700$, I wouldn't bite. Now he wants 880?

... freight shipping for a 1U. Probably should include to have it USPS shipping in the offer. Awesome find though!

Also, that motherboard probably won't work without the rest of the system. Quad CPU machines are pretty complicated for Dell/HP, I have an HP equivalent and it has the motherboard, PCI Express board, PCI Express extender, IO board, and memory modules. Also, usually specific power connectors.