Supermicro 3U 8-blade E5 MicroCloud - $2500

[ItsChrisG]

I bought 5x of these E5 MicroClouds -- time to go hunting for CPUs.
Looking for great deals on E5-1620v2, E5-1650v2 and there's another thread where an E5-2689 was discussed... if anyone reading this has any other ideas for similar performance and price range CPUs; please let me know! (or if you have one or a few you want to sell to me)

 

[MiniKnight]

I still see 6 available. How much did you get them for?

 

[ItsChrisG]

Didn't buy them on eBay, going direct - got them around same pricing already discussed previously in the thread.
Seller seems like a great guy too so far in pre-sales. Hopefully nothing is wrong with any of them, so I dont have to experience post-sales service.

 

[gigatexal]

I would be surprised if there was that much of a difference between V2 and V3 in this. Haswell-EP is better in terms of idle, but can use more power at load. The V2 is a 22nm chip also so idle is not that bad. V1 you basically save a few hundred up front on processor costs.

Another note: these are UP nodes so only 8 CPU's total and disks/ motherboard chips use proportionally higher amounts of power in shared chassis configs. They can only take 128GB and 2 disks so they are low CPU density (UP), low memory density (128GB) and low storage density (2 drives per).

Not to say those are not awesome chassis!

I was looking at these: Supermicro 2022TG HTRF 4 Node Server w 8x 8 Core AMD 6320 2 8GHz No Mem 12x500g | eBay would be a decent upgrade to a L5520 C6100 and much less expensive.

That AMD setup would be awesome if it weren't going to scream. Maybe I could retro fit my garage...

 

[T_Minus]

Got one coming, and some new CPUs, and re-using some existing. Looking like i'll run a mix of 6c, 8c, and 12c.

Now to get some larger SSD and RE drives.

The FUN NEVER ENDS!

 

[PithyChats]

Got one coming, and some new CPUs, and re-using some existing. Looking like i'll run a mix of 6c, 8c, and 12c.

Now to get some larger SSD and RE drives.

The FUN NEVER ENDS!

How much did you end up paying?

 

[T_Minus]

Couldn't get them down anymore.