Wanted: HP DL585 barebones

[dba]

This one is a long shot, but here it goes: Please let me know if you see an HP DL585 G7 for sale used at a good price.

I watch eBay, of course, but the DL585 does not appear to be that popular.
I need the basic components only - chassis, power supplies, and boards. I do not need CPUs, drives, or RAM.

Update: I managed to stumble on a fully-stuffed DL585 for a very reasonable price. The one that I found has four 6174 processors, 128GB of RAM, four power supplies, rack rails, and the HP RAID card with 1GB of flash-backed memory, but somehow cost only $3,600 shipped. That may sound expensive, but that's $1,000 worth of RAM alone. The kicker: It's covered by next-day-air parts replacement warranty until 2015!

 

[Patrick]

G34 is pretty hard to find used. Much smaller new platform. From what I understand, most of the G34 sales, especially quads, end up going into labs.

Going to PM you with a really long shot.

 

[dba]

Thanks for the lead Patrick. I will continue to look for a DL585 or similar machine with an excessive number of PCIe slots. My quad-CPU Supermicro has two I/O controllers and five x8/x16 slots and at this point I'm deserpately short of I/O. The eleven slot DL585, which has four I/O controllers, sure does look appealing. One will have to land on eBay sooner or later!

 

[mobilenvidia]

What about this ?

Or how about a 8xPCIe slot 4x LGA2011 motherboard

X9QR7-JTF (Coming Soon)
• Quad Socket R (LGA 2011) support:
Intel® Xeon® processor E5-4600 series; QPI up to 8.0GT/s
• Intel® C602 Chipset
• 24 DIMM, up to 768GB DDR3 1600MHz ECC RDIMMs
• 8 PCI-E 3.0 x16 (1 PCI-E 3.0 x8 in x16) slots
• Intel® X540 Dual port 10GBase-T
• 2 SATA3 and 8 SATA2 (4 from SCU) ports
• 16 SAS2 ports via LSI 2308; SW RAID 0, 1, 10
• 9 USB 2.0 ports (4 rear + 4 via headers + 1 Type A)
• IPMI 2.0 and KVM with dedicated LAN
• Form factor: Proprietary, 17" x 17"

 

[cactus]

OT: ^^^ those are amazing looking boards...

 

[mobilenvidia]

Even more amazing if you can fill 11x PCIe slots or 4x LGA2011 CPUs

 

[mobilenvidia]

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[Patrick]

What about this ?

Was thinking the X9DRX+-F also.

 

[dba]

What about this ?...

A quad LGA2011 board with a piano-keyboard-worth of PCIe 3 slots would be a worthy step up from my quad G34 with five PCIe slots - but too large of a step for right now. I already own the four Opteron CPUs, the RAM, and nine LSI RAID cards. For a few thousand dollars I hope to transplant that hardware into a DL585 as a step up from my Supermicro 2042-TRF. If that ever fails to meet my needs - and I can stomach Intel server CPU pricing - then LGA2011 it will be.

On a related note, the current Xeon E5-26xx CPUs look great for two socket use. I know that four-socket versions are planned, but do you know anything about the release dates, pricing, and if they have four QPI links instead of the current two?

 

[dba]

Even more amazing if you can fill 11x PCIe slots or 4x LGA2011 CPUs

I have nine LSI RAID cards ready and waiting, along with a total of 15 SFF-8088 ports backed by 60 disk slots. It's amazing to me that cheap servers can handle that much throughput, but they certainly can.

 

[mobilenvidia]

On a related note, the current Xeon E5-26xx CPUs look great for two socket use. I know that four-socket versions are planned, but do you know anything about the release dates, pricing, and if they have four QPI links instead of the current two?

Right then you'll be wanting this then ?

Click piccy for specs page.

Expansion Slots PCI-E (6) FH/FLPCI-E Gen.3 x16 slots / (2) FH/FLPCI-E Gen.3 x8 slots
Pre-install TYAN Riser Card M7910-R56-3F1L, PCI-E x16 & x8 4U riser card (right) / M7910-L56-3F1L, PCI-E x16 & x8 4U riser card (left)

6x PCIe 16x slots, get your self 6x LSI 9202-16i 16 port (PCIe 16x cards, dual SAS2008)
2x PCIe 8x slots, a couple of LSI9211-8i based cards.
Inbuild LSI SAS2308 with not sure how many ports,at least 8x
Thats a whopping 118x SAS 6G ports at hand all full bandwidth, no expanders to be seen either.

Now get to it, Put the kettle on I'm coming round for a cuppa and help set it up

 

[dba]

Right then you'll be wanting this then ?

Click piccy for specs page.
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Impressive!!

 

[Patrick]

That is pretty darn cool actually! Only tough thing is it is BTO.