New server in the house... HP Z420

[jinjuku]

Hexacore Xeon E5 1650 v2
8GB RAM included
250GB HDD
Win 10 Pro x64

3 internal 3.5"
3 external 5.25"

12 USB in total (four 3.1)

2 X PCI Gen 3 16 lane
4 X PCI Gen 3 8 lane

GBE NIC

$319 delivered

It's off lease but I swear it's never been used before. Looks brand new. Even the insides of the PSU are whistle clean.

Just verified that 8GB Kingston KTD-PE313LV modules work at $19 / 8GB. So I have 64 GB of DDR3 ECC registered memory.

Moving my 12TB of storage over to it and a Dual Port Intel Server NIC and SMB multichannel for 200MB/S on the network.

 

[panteragstk]

Nice find. Newegg has them for that price. If only I could justify the need...

 

[jinjuku]

I'm consolidating my NAS, my Virtualization Server (3.5 years old running 24/7 non-stop), and my desktop over to it.

For $480 I have a 6 core with hyper-threading, 64GB of quad interleaved RAM, and Windows 10 Pro.

If I want I can get the 8 core e5-2650 v2 for $45.

Just a tremendous deal. I was looking at going with a Ryzen 5 1600x but just the CPU and 16GB of DDR4 was going to run $400 ($220 for the cpu and $170 for RAM) and I don't get a Workstation class case, PSU, Windows 10 Pro.

The Nvidia Pro 290 supports GPU Virtualization Pass Through also.

 

[panteragstk]

I'm consolidating my NAS, my Virtualization Server (3.5 years old running 24/7 non-stop), and my desktop over to it.

For $480 I have a 6 core with hyper-threading, 64GB of quad interleaved RAM, and Windows 10 Pro.

If I want I can get the 8 core e5-2650 v2 for $45.

Just a tremendous deal. I was looking at going with a Ryzen 5 1600x but just the CPU and 16GB of DDR4 was going to run $400 ($220 for the cpu and $170 for RAM) and I don't get a Workstation class case, PSU, Windows 10 Pro.

The Nvidia Pro 290 supports GPU Virtualization Pass Through also.

Nice. I did the same when I got my dual intel E5-2670 v1 setup. Facebook apparently flooded the market with them and I got them, a board, 64gb of ddr3 for a bit over $500. This would be my backup server in case the big one died.

I'm really going to have to think about this one. It'll be perfect.