The MVP has left the building
Hello again,
yesterday was a sad day for all the members of the "Rack". One of the servers(the dual hexacore R710) has left us. It decided to move to a better place. Like in soccer, every player is valuable, but for the right price, will play for another team. So is the case of this guy. It was a dear friend, but we had to part.
But fear not, a younger guy will take it's place. It is a HP DL360E Gen8. It has 2 octacore intel processors(E5-2450L) and 8GB DDR3(will upgrade to 24GB). Already paid for, now the waiting has started.
Below is a photo with him getting comfy for the road.
I will come back with photos after I install it in its new room.
As always, happy crunching and have fun.
My thoughts are with you and your reamaining Rack...
F to pay respects...
Although you wont regret taking on a HP in your all Dell setup.
My DL380 G7s havent skipped a beat and I look forward to your thoughts on the inclusion of a HP machine in your rack.
P.S. Its football, not soccer :P
I had a HP before(DL360 g6). I was surprised by the quiet fans. In idle I could barely hear them. Is it a general thing or I just got lucky? I will post when it gets here.
PS: In my country it is called football too, but I did not wanted to create confusion with US guys.
The DL380 G7 is pretty quiet all things considered, just be cautious because sometimes if you add non-HP hardware it can force the system to run the fans at 100%. This also happens sometimes if running non-standard kit in the PCI slots.
I ran a Firepro S9150 once and it made the fans run at 100%, not a problem as it was in my basement, but if it was in a living area, yeah its like a jet taking off haha
I know some HW can force the fans to go full speed, specialy video cards. About the noise, my brother is using it as workstation/PC. It has 2 E5620, 32GB DDR3 and a GTX 650ti card. Even in games, the noise is decent.
About "jet engines", Have you heard a C6100? The noise of the fans is horrible. It has 4 fans at some huge RPM.
Cool, although there was a HP issue where if you didnt use their preferred 2,5 Inch drives it throttled up the fans... very annoying. Wow, what an cool setup as a PC, I'm surprised that its not unbearably loud to be honest, but I try to make all my PCs as quiet as possible haha.
Havent heard the C6100, but their notority preceeds them... Although I guess thats what you get for something with such a massive density of CPUs. It would be nice to own something like that one day haha
The HP works just fine. In idle it was very quiet. More like a whisper.
I am aiming to a bladecenter(HP or Dell). From what I see, Dell has a greater density. With quarter blades with 2 CPU/blade. That is 32 blades, 64 CPUs in total.
My ultimate goal is to get to 1000 cores. First step, then the sky is the limit.