SUPERMICRO 4 NODE (8) X5690 CPU 4x192GB RAM 12x4TB HD SAS RAID 2108

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zxv

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Can you power down the hard drives for each node via IPMI?
(just curious about power costs)
 

nthu9280

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unless you swap out the X5690 with something like a L5640, this thing will be very power hungry.
It's kinda moot point at this time as that ship sailed but who ever got will hopefully enjoy the jet engine :)

IIRC, the idle power is not different between L56xx / E56xx / X56xx (LGA1366 platform). Each node expected idle over 100W. I think that era chipset is also quite power hungry.
 

BLinux

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It's kinda moot point at this time as that ship sailed but who ever got will hopefully enjoy the jet engine :)
Well, for anyone considering such a system, it's good to keep in mind. And also the option of L5640 is very cheap to swap out those CPUs...

IIRC, the idle power is not different between L56xx / E56xx / X56xx (LGA1366 platform). Each node expected idle over 100W. I think that era chipset is also quite power hungry.
No, I think that might apply to Sandy Bridge and newer, but Westmere-EP machines have lower idle power consumption with L56xx vs their X56xx. Also, under load, the "L" CPUs consume less power, albeit slower, but their compute/energy ratio is generally more efficient.
 

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I have tested L, E and X, the difference in idle power usage is negligible. It is less than 10w. If you need many cores go for E5 269(5,6,7) v2
A Supermicro X9 with 8 dimms populated should idle around 85watt.
 
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LukeP

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why would they sit idle? who buys these old hunks of junk to sit them idle?

the guy who bought it is just going to part out on ebay lol