Hi All,
I currently own 4 x HP ML310e G8 Servers that are decked out with the max ram that that supports 32GB and they all have the E3-1220 V2 CPU in them.
I am a VM ESXi junkie and memory is what I really need and a good amount of it, but at the same time I need a sensible trade off of cost for running vs CPU power.
The reason I am no longer a real fan of the current HP Servers I have:
So anyway what I am asking is where does the LGA1366 range fit in here? I can see lots of Supermicro boards around this age / range and all look pretty decent spec wise with some Lower Power Xeons I can get to fit in them. I used to own a ML350 G6 with 2x5650s running 96GB RAM and this thing was a flying machine but I had to sell it due to the spiralling CPU costs.
Is LGA1366 still a good budget alternative? My current gripe is anything that is not E5 wont support RDIMMs and only UDIMM so memory becomes very very expensive. I basically want a motherboard and CPU combo for around £400 / $600 with lots of RAM that is reasonable on electricity consumption like I dunno under 100W Idle ? e.g a Supermicro dual socket board with like a L5640 in it then I can load up the RAM and if I want to expand I can double it . I just need to find a sweet spot
TLR - Want to build a custom Server as Im sick of HP / Rack stuff, Is LGA1366 still cheap enough for power consumption vs cost given the cost of modern CPUs and memory
I currently own 4 x HP ML310e G8 Servers that are decked out with the max ram that that supports 32GB and they all have the E3-1220 V2 CPU in them.
I am a VM ESXi junkie and memory is what I really need and a good amount of it, but at the same time I need a sensible trade off of cost for running vs CPU power.
The reason I am no longer a real fan of the current HP Servers I have:
- Ram is very expensive for it (Only supports UDIMM and a max of 32GB Total)
- HP G8 Servers hate expansion cards that arent HP and ramp the fans up
- Because of the RAM requirement I need to run a few machines.
So anyway what I am asking is where does the LGA1366 range fit in here? I can see lots of Supermicro boards around this age / range and all look pretty decent spec wise with some Lower Power Xeons I can get to fit in them. I used to own a ML350 G6 with 2x5650s running 96GB RAM and this thing was a flying machine but I had to sell it due to the spiralling CPU costs.
Is LGA1366 still a good budget alternative? My current gripe is anything that is not E5 wont support RDIMMs and only UDIMM so memory becomes very very expensive. I basically want a motherboard and CPU combo for around £400 / $600 with lots of RAM that is reasonable on electricity consumption like I dunno under 100W Idle ? e.g a Supermicro dual socket board with like a L5640 in it then I can load up the RAM and if I want to expand I can double it . I just need to find a sweet spot
TLR - Want to build a custom Server as Im sick of HP / Rack stuff, Is LGA1366 still cheap enough for power consumption vs cost given the cost of modern CPUs and memory