Wouldnt bother with Gen8. We literally throw them in the e-waste recycle bin.
Either get a Gen9 if tight with cash (also EOL) or Gen10 servers which are currently supported and get current updates.
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Celestus@lemm.ee 6 months agoUsed HP ProLiant. It’s nearly 10 years old, but has 16 cores 64GB of RAM, and is just under $150 with free shipping
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foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Look at the edit I will maybe take that
SeaJ@lemm.ee 6 months ago
If they are up for that, I’d be happy to part with mine for cheap. They’d need to get an E5-2650 (v2) to meet their 16 core requirement but a pair of those are pretty cheap.
redcalcium@lemmy.institute 6 months ago
Xeon E5-2670, with 115W TDP, which means 2x115=230W for the processor alone. with 8 ram modules @ ~3W each, it’ll going to guzzle ~250W when under some loads, while screaming like a jet engine.
Would be great if you have an isolated server room to contain the noise and cheap electricity, but more modern workstation should use at least 1/4 of electricity or even less.
foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
I just want to correct something is that the TDP is the power under load, so if the cpu is not 100% used it could be 20 hours at 25W and 4 at 90W
redcalcium@lemmy.institute 6 months ago
Power scaling for these old CPU is not great though. Mine is slightly newer and on idle it still uses 50% of the TDP.