EXPIRED Supermicro 4U 4Node (4x8LFF) - 1tb ddr4 680$

[Cruzader]

Stumbled upon this random listing that might be interesting for somebody here, not the model i was looking for but not a bad deal imo.

4U 4Node supermicro 8LFF per node unit with a charming 1tb ram across them (sadly in 16gb dimms tho)
"Each Node has 2x E5-2650 V4 Processor and 256GB Ram"
Should be onboard sas3008 and if lucky the node config with nvme available on rear bays

Who will try a 400$ offer in the name of science?
Been sitting for ages with 5 price drops since kinda poorly written listing with no mobo/node models etc or mentioning 1tb

SUPERMICRO CSE-F424 4U 4-Node Server 2x E5-2650 V4 2.2GHz 256GB RAM 4x PSUs

 

[bvd]

16GB DIMMs is an ouch.

But i see the gauntlet thrown... And I accept! $400 offer sent their way.

(Oh lawdy, what the hell have I done )

 

[Layla]

Did someone buy them all? It says it's gone now

 

[bvd]

I think they probably got a wholesaler offer from someone monitoring this forum - happens not-infrequently when there's a lot of anything that's really far below market value posted up.

I expect they'll be relisted at double the price in the coming weeks by someone else

 

[Layla]

That's not cool

 

[Bert]

Honestly they are too old to be useful. Even haswell/broadwell is getting out of the picture.

 

[Layla]

Intel stayed on 14nm for so many years that Broadwell isn't nearly as far behind as something that old would otherwise be. The latest CPUs with PCIe Gen5 are certainly far ahead, but per dollar, Broadwell still competes..

 

[Sean Ho]

Yes, agreed. Subsequent generations of Scalable improved on power consumption, particularly under load, but IPC and ISA improvements are only incremental.