Hi, I have just acquired one of these and I have a few questions for the people who have some experience with them.
It currently has a 12500K. What would be the best processor to upgrade it to? I would think that i9s are out since there are power and thermal concerns.
I was thinking maybe a 13700k or 14700k?
Second, it came with a DisplayPort FlexIO module -- I would like to get the thunderbolt 3 one.
I asked HP and they gave me the part number (440A5AA) but it's backordered / out of stock literally everywhere including at HP themselves...
Yet they seem to have stock for new builds (which I don't quite understand...).
Any idea what the deal with this is?
Also it looks like there are a total of THREE different FlexIO standards and they are all incompatible with each other...?
How about getting a PCIe thunderbolt card instead? Anything I should know regarding compatibility?
If anyone else has some tips about this computer I would love to hear them.
This will be my first non Mac (or non-ARM SBC) in ~10 years so I am probably in for a treat if things go well, and a nightmare if things don't
What I am planning on using it for -- I have a few thunderbolt RAID boxes, Promise Pegasus...I would like to put them on my 10Ggb E network instead of running them as DAS.
So I would also need a 10Gb NIC for this HP box too...but I was thinking of using the PCIe slot for that. OR I could use the PCIe slot for a thunderbolt card and then get the 10Gb FlexIO NIC -- which IS actually in stock, but it's expensive (yikes!).
OR I could go with a 10Gb Thunderbolt NIC -- I'm not necessarily opposed to that. Whatever will work better and costs less!
It currently has a 12500K. What would be the best processor to upgrade it to? I would think that i9s are out since there are power and thermal concerns.
I was thinking maybe a 13700k or 14700k?
Second, it came with a DisplayPort FlexIO module -- I would like to get the thunderbolt 3 one.
I asked HP and they gave me the part number (440A5AA) but it's backordered / out of stock literally everywhere including at HP themselves...
Yet they seem to have stock for new builds (which I don't quite understand...).
Any idea what the deal with this is?
Also it looks like there are a total of THREE different FlexIO standards and they are all incompatible with each other...?
How about getting a PCIe thunderbolt card instead? Anything I should know regarding compatibility?
If anyone else has some tips about this computer I would love to hear them.
This will be my first non Mac (or non-ARM SBC) in ~10 years so I am probably in for a treat if things go well, and a nightmare if things don't
What I am planning on using it for -- I have a few thunderbolt RAID boxes, Promise Pegasus...I would like to put them on my 10Ggb E network instead of running them as DAS.
So I would also need a 10Gb NIC for this HP box too...but I was thinking of using the PCIe slot for that. OR I could use the PCIe slot for a thunderbolt card and then get the 10Gb FlexIO NIC -- which IS actually in stock, but it's expensive (yikes!).
OR I could go with a 10Gb Thunderbolt NIC -- I'm not necessarily opposed to that. Whatever will work better and costs less!