Intel Xeon L5630 under $60

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Biren78

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Saw two auctions and it seems as though these are falling in price like crazy.

Here's info on the L5630 versus L5530. Not the fastest. But... ARK has these here: ARK | Intel® Xeon® Processor L5630 (12M Cache, 2.13 GHz, 5.86 GT/s Intel® QPI)

2.13GHz -> 2.4GHz
12MB Cache
Quad Core + HT
32nm so AESNI
40w TDP!!!

Oh and they are cheap! $60 for one or $120 for a pair both with best offer available:
Single: Intel Xeon 2 13GHz Quad Core Proc L5630 12MB SLBVD for Dell PowerEdge C2100 | eBay
Pair: 2X Intel Xeon 2 13GHz Quad Core Proc L5630 12MB SLBVD for Dell PowerEdge C2100 | eBay
 

Patrick

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Not bad. I posted this on the main site. You could almost sell L5520 chips and get a speed/ feature boost and end up about even money with power factored in.
 

mrkrad

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no they are cheaper. there are far more L5639 on ebay than L5630.

Same chip as L5630, but 2 more cores. 20 more watts. win win since cores that are parked don't really eat much wattage.
 

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I may actually grab a few this weekend. Would be a decent idea to replace the pfSense nodes with these. Pretty tight on the power window.
 

mrkrad

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Yeah I have a single socket node with one of these. It has dual 10gbe, Lsi 9260-8i, 4 SSD , under heavy load pushing 10gbe under esxi power load is about 100 watts . lol.

For such an old CPU :) it is very efficient
 

Patrick

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Your setup is petty fancy. Everything from a Dell C6100 single L5520 node to an Atom D525 machine.
 

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Ordered 2 for my secondary fileserver thats currently 1x E5506. In theory I should get double or better performance on threaded apps for the same power usage (40w x2 vs 80w x1)

Thanks OP!
 
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mrkrad

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Yeah I had some E5603 quad core 1.6ghz that I replaced with L5639 6-core/12 thread and that felt like 2x performance.

Not sure what to do with a handful of E5603 :(
 

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FWIW... the sources I've had luck with on e-bay are either running out of the 5639's or some other market factor is coming in to play, the price has been creeping up and some of my reliable providers are showing 0 stock.

Server Supply still has them for $95 with a 1.5% discount for PayPal.
 

PersonalJ

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FWIW... the sources I've had luck with on e-bay are either running out of the 5639's or some other market factor is coming in to play, the price has been creeping up and some of my reliable providers are showing 0 stock.

Server Supply still has them for $95 with a 1.5% discount for PayPal.
Dedicated servers providers have been ordering them, clients are wanting them to mine CPU coins like primecoins on. Wholesale internet said they just ordered 3000 of them on WebHostingTalk, this will blow over soon.
 

mrkrad

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That's why I bought a ton of them back then, you cannot rely on deals to last forever.

I'm sure the folks who snapped up 8gb dims at $20 each are feeling pretty good right about now too.

Mining with GPU or CPU is stupid. Usb powered hashers can work at 10-100x the rate over USB power. Unless you have free power,cooling,etc - better to just use the existing usb hashers.

If you know anyone I have a job to complete. It uses N inputs, and requires exhausting enumeration to result in best N choices. I need to hash a few billion options.
 

vv111y

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That's why I bought a ton of them back then, you cannot rely on deals to last forever.

I'm sure the folks who snapped up 8gb dims at $20 each are feeling pretty good right about now too.
I'm weeping. I just assumed the march to lower prices is a given for any IT. I got a bunch of 8gb for $54, that was the best I could find. And I missed these xeons. :mad: I need to stick around here to keep up with deals.
EDIT: anyone expecting ddr3 RAM to go down sometime?

Mining with GPU or CPU is stupid. Usb powered hashers can work at 10-100x the rate over USB power. Unless you have free power,cooling,etc - better to just use the existing usb hashers.

If you know anyone I have a job to complete. It uses N inputs, and requires exhausting enumeration to result in best N choices. I need to hash a few billion options.
I was thinking of trying litecoin (great to have this gear pay for itself), guys were using their gpu's for the last few months and it went crazy the last few weeks. That ship may have sailed too.
What job are you trying to do?
 
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