Upgrade from a R710

[[Nobody]]

Hi,
My main server is right now a Dell R710 with following hardware:
- 2* L5640 12 Cores/24 Threads
- 18*8 GB DDR3 ECC
- 250 GB SSD for Proxmox
- 2*500 GB SSD (ZFS mirror)
- 4*3TB 2.5" CMR HDD Western Digital (sadly not produced anymore; ZFS Striped mirror)
- Quadro P620
- 10G (mellanox connect-x 2)
- 500 GB NVME

Mainly I'm running services like Nextcloud, grafana, wireguard, wordpress, jellyfin (with GPU passthroug) in LXC-Containers. Further I got some Windows Server VMs running (RemoteApp).
The two L5640 have a combined passmark score of 8500, no AVX and consume 98 W @idle and 240 W @ full load. Most the time the server is running at 6-8 % utilization @ 150 W. And that's alot.

I would like to have in my new Server the same hardware from the R710 except CPU and Motherboard and an additional GTX 1650 for gaming.
Thus, I need:
- >10 S-ATA3
- 2* PCI-E 16x
- 2* PCI-E 8x (more would be better for expansion with an H310).
- PCI-Bifurcation would be very nice
- IPMI. Never again without it.

I would like to reuse at least 64 GB of the RAM, thus I have to look at 2011 v2 CPUs.
I was offered a E5-2696 V2 with 12c/24t with 14000 Passmark points. I think this would be enough for my purpose, but I'm not sure if I should go Dual-CPU again (for PCI-E lanes?). I don't think I need the 25000 Passmark Point of two of these CPUs (@440 W full load), since I only do only a few times a month some video-editing (what could be accelerated by the GTX 1650) and some "older" games with the GTX 1650.

What would you suggest?

Which Board would you recommend? X79 or C602?

 

[tubs-ffm]

What would you suggest?

Build-up a server AND a workstation / gaming PC, each of them acc. yours needs, but not try to combine all in one box.
You won't get your idle power down if you pack it full of power consuming stuff.

 

[BoredSysadmin]

Each of L5640 TPD is 80W where E5-2696 V2 is TPD at 130. You will be making a very small improvement in terms of power efficiency.
32nm process to 22nm. I think single-socket should be fine for your needs, 48 PCIe lanes should be plenty as you aren't running 40/100Gbis network nor have it full of ONLY NVMe drives.
My advice: I agree - forget about server+gaming machine - 1650 isn't that great for gaming either. I'd wait for current GPU shortages to get resolved and look for 3050 next year and have it installed in a machine capable of very high single-core performance since this is what most games still optimized for. DLSS alone is worth the price of waiting.

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