Dell R740XD (or 14th gen) Processor Check - Xeon Silver 4210t

[cptcrunch]

Hello

I have a Dell R740XD incoming and i'm looking to upgrade the processors from the included Bronze to a second gen silver. The specs show it supports second gen silvers, specifically the 4210 and 4210r, but it does not state it will support the 4210t. Is anyone running a 14th gen Dell with the Xeon Silver 4210t?

Thanks

 

[CyklonDX]

Silver 4210 is listed as supported. but as a single cpu only. (likely due to just 2 qpi links instead of 3)
I would recommend Gold 6138 its cheaper and faster. (some ~70 usd avg on ebay)

 

[nexox]

If two Bronze work then the missing QPI shouldn't be an issue. Is there a specific feature you're looking for on the second gen? Otherwise they cost a lot more for very similar specs, compared to a $10 4114 the $150 4210 gets you slightly higher turbo clock and not a lot else. If that slightly higher single thread performance is appealing then there's always the $20 6132.

 

[cptcrunch]

If two Bronze work then the missing QPI shouldn't be an issue. Is there a specific feature you're looking for on the second gen? Otherwise they cost a lot more for very similar specs, compared to a $10 4114 the $150 4210 gets you slightly higher turbo clock and not a lot else. If that slightly higher single thread performance is appealing then there's always the $20 6132.

Ideally, i'm hoping to build this once and then never touch it for 5 years. So my thought was going with a 2nd gen xeon just for piece of mind so i don't have to "rebuild" in a few years. But honestly, it's just going to be a standard esxi host with unraid, truenas, and 5-10 VMs. If there isn't a significant difference between 1st and 2nd gen, like idle power savings or significant passmark, then I can probably just go with 1st gen and be done.

 

[nexox]

The one thing that some people like is hardware mitigation of Meltdown and Spectre, but the software mitigation don't cost enough performance to shift the price/performance away from Skylake, just because there's so much supply and the prices are so low.

I assume there are some minor low-level performance and power improvements, but they're both on the same 14nm process, it's not the typical tick/tock sequence that we usually see from Intel.