Fill your Intel Xeon LGA1366 Cloud Inexpensively Thread

[Patrick]

Also: The Supermicro sleds do not fit, and there are no simple modifications that will make them work.

Are these the sleds? I need 48 at this point.
Lot 20 432320 001 434916 507284 Hard Drive Caddy HP DL380 G5 G6 2 5" SAS Tray | eBay

 

[dba]

Yes - those are the ones.

Are these the sleds? I need 48 at this point.
Lot 20 432320 001 434916 507284 Hard Drive Caddy HP DL380 G5 G6 2 5" SAS Tray | eBay

 

[Jeggs101]

Put offer in for $80. I'll report back if I win. Don't want to get a $300 C6100 and pay $500 in trays.

 

[Jeggs101]

Put offer in for $80. I'll report back if I win. Don't want to get a $300 C6100 and pay $500 in trays.

Accepted. Now to get a 2.5 C6100.

 

[Toddh]

I don't think you can use these, they say 72GB on them! No wonder they are so cheap.


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[RimBlock]

8x L5520 * $50ea = 400
24x 4GB * $15ea = 360
Chassis * $225ea = 225

= $985 w/o tax & ship to BYO. Unless you want more, $899 is way to go.

Don't forget the bare bones chassis has no trays or rails.

 

[RimBlock]

And the Vista deal includes both PSUs, which easily makes up the difference in the costs you noted.

Not if you include trays and rails which the bare bones doesn't.

8x L5520 * $50ea = 400
24x 4GB * $15ea = 360
Chassis * $225ea = 225
4 drive trays * $15 each = 60
8 drive blanks * $8 each = 64
Rails * $50 each = 50
Total: $1160 + tax and delivery for the same build going on best pricing from multiple suppliers.

C6100 loaded with L5520s and 24GB / node = $899
Extra PSU = $79
Total: 978 + tax and delivery for the same build going on best pricing from multiple suppliers.

A 15% ($182) price difference for that set build.

Vista's deal lets you be more flexible with the end product. If you want the "standard" configuration and don't care about running w/out the secondary PSU, no fuss, no muss, then the $899 deal is pretty good. But if you don't want X5520s, if you want more than 24GB/node, or if you need any other deviation, then Vista's deals is better.

Yep that is by far the strength of that deal. You can half populate and bring it up to full population over time saving a large initial cost. Non-L5520 / 24GB configs will also be more cost effective. Best to shop around for the other parts though as I thought the price for Vistas CPUs to be on the pretty steep side.

Besides - once you start the process you'll learn Justin is just a joy to work with. He'll get first shot at any further Dell refurb purchases I make.

Also - Vista/Justin's shipping offer is very reasonable. Make sure you look at the price+shipping, not just the price. Some of the $899 offers that have come and gone have had very high shipping costs.

For my case shipping is moot as I need to use my corporate DHL account which works out much cheaper than seller quotes I have seen. It is, however, a fairly standard mark up method for sellers so well worth noting.

RB

 

[dba]

One last **possible** benefit of buying from Vista: Bonus parts! My first C6100 included four Infiniband cards.

 

[RimBlock]

Also: The Supermicro sleds do not fit, and there are no simple modifications that will make them work.

Great info, thanks for taking the time.

Don't seem to be any 2.5" drive versions on EBay at the moment although Vista had some when I last asked.

@Patrick
How about a list in the first post of trays known to work and verified as not working ?.

RB

 

[PigLover]

Yeah, but I don't think you can actually count on that. Its luck of the draw as they pull them out to ship.

 

[Patrick]

Yeah, but I don't think you can actually count on that. Its luck of the draw as they pull them out to ship.

Too true. All luck.

 

[RimBlock]

One last **possible** benefit of buying from Vista: Bonus parts! My first C6100 included four Infiniband cards.

Haha, that would be a significant bonus.

I am considering getting them as well for a dedicated storage network not limited to 1GbE.

RB

 

[Biren78]

Too bad there isn't a used $500 16 port QDR switch.

 

[Patrick]

Anyone getting $40 or less on the L5520's? Looking around there are now TONS of them on ebay.

 

[cafcwest]

Negative. I sent a lot of messages and offers to everyone currently selling - the cheapest I was able to get was $44 x 8 from seller "mktllc". This was as of yesterday, 2/26/13.

 

[MiniKnight]

There are lots of 10 for $425 plus 15 shipping with an offer option Lot of 10 Intel Xeon L5520 2 26GHz 8MB LGA1366 Slbfa 0735858207881 | eBay may be hassle but bet someone here maybe interested in 2 xtras

Also for those looking best offer: Intel Xeon L5638 2 GHz Six Core Processor LGA 1366 Westmere EP ES Retail B1 | eBay - bet these could be bought for $225 or less

Looked at some of the 1u dual cpu systems to part but nogo price wise for the l5520 + 4gb sticks

 

[cafcwest]

There are lots of 10 for $425 plus 15 shipping with an offer option Lot of 10 Intel Xeon L5520 2 26GHz 8MB LGA1366 Slbfa 0735858207881 | eBay may be hassle but bet someone here maybe interested in 2 xtras

that is the same guy i used. in that deal, you are still paying $44/chip - basically, I just negotiated him down to applying the same price to a quantity of 8.

 

[xnoodle]

One person sold 11 L5520's at $40. Got in on the last one. Someone bought 8, haha.

 

[Jeggs101]

Here is one option E5530's for $130-150 OBO for PAIRS:
Matched Pair Quad Core Processor Intel Xeon E5530 SLBF7 2 4 GHz 8M 5 86 | eBay
Lot of Two E5530 Intel Xeon Quad Core Processor SLBF7 2 4 GHz 8M Cache | eBay

2.4GHz so faster but may be higher power. Wonder if they can be had for $40? Sellers selling many.

 

[cafcwest]

Of course someone else's use case is going to vary, but for mine, I don't see the point of upgrading L5520's and using up more power unless I can get more cores with a 5600 series 6-core chip. And the price simply does not support that upgrade yet - cheaper to simply install more nodes.