Supermicro X9DRD 1U chassis 126 USD
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I grabbed one, now on the search for medium performing 26xx v2's.
Q? Would you gamble on 2x CPUs from the same vendor even though not advertised as a pair?
I would contact the vendor as a lot of times the individual ones started out as a pair.
From what I read and experienced, as long as the CPU are same S-SPEC / stepping even if they are not matched pair they worked fine.
So as long as the CPUs match the piccy in the sale... And are identical. Then good. ThxAnd this too.
Most important part is that those s-specs are matching. Otherwise you could have an issue as they're not completely 'identical' cpus.
That's a tremendous overkill for pfsense unless you are adding a whole host of other services such as IDS/IPS, VPN etc. And Idle power is not different between the regular and L series. You will be crippled on single threaded apps requiring higher frequencies.
The block diagram for the X9DRD-LF shows that the second CPU has the pcie slot so you need to populate both sockets unfortunately.
@Stefan2k4 You need both CPUs populated to use the x16 slot. It's a modified X9DRD-LF, see the >manual< on the Supermicro site.
It looks like a standard riser layout so it shouldn't need anything special. Something like the RSC-RR1U-E16 will probably work. They're under $10 on ebay so not a huge risk if they don't work out and you need find something else.
They're 40mm so they won't be quiet, but they're also not the counter-rotating dual fan assemblies, so with PWM control through IPMI should be manageable depending on your sensitivity.
