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MiniKnight said:
The downside of Xeon D is no 3d GPU if you need that
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Do you mean the built-in GPU like the i7 has? I only use the cpu power anyway, for GPU rendering I will need something like GTX Titan graphic card or GTX 980 Sli, the built-in cpu gpu is not good for my purpose.

But is the 45W motherboard compatible with Titan Gpu?
 
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Got the two dedicated ceph all flash nodes installed this weekend so that is good. Testing the Xeon D-1520 board right now but then plan to get some time work on this again next week.
 
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The problem with NUCs and their ilk (and also Seagate's Ethernet-connected HDs) is that they're too expensive per-drive. They're cheap in absolute terms, but if they only power a single drive then they're not a good deal overall.

For example, I picked up a bunch of 2U 56xx boxes for $300 each and added a M1015 to each of them. 12 drives for $400, or a bit more with 10 GbE. Hard to beat that. From a power perspective, a Supermicro 2U chassis + a Xeon-D MB may be better, but they're not really available yet.
 
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