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Hi all,
Selling my old workstation. You will have to add the GPU and drives but this is an awesome quiet and stable machine.
Key goals of the system were to get many PCIe lanes, more than 32GB of ram and keep it quiet (<38dba) and compact. I have limited office space so while I wanted a high-powered system, I also did not want something too loud. This has been running Windows 8.1 Pro w/ 15+ Hyper-V guest VMs without issue.
For those wondering, the replacement is a 2x 10 core V3 system with 256GB RAM and 16x SSDs also in the SC732 case (2x 8-in-1 enclosures) and with the same coolers. With the PWM fans these stay cool and quiet.
Recommended video cards: ASUS STRIX GTX 970 or Quadro K4000 / K4200 to keep noise to a minimum.
Price $1250 + 50 shipping.
Selling my old workstation. You will have to add the GPU and drives but this is an awesome quiet and stable machine.
Key goals of the system were to get many PCIe lanes, more than 32GB of ram and keep it quiet (<38dba) and compact. I have limited office space so while I wanted a high-powered system, I also did not want something too loud. This has been running Windows 8.1 Pro w/ 15+ Hyper-V guest VMs without issue.
- Dual Xeon E5-2630 "spicy" (QB7X)
- 8x 8GB Samsung RDIMMs
- Mellanox ConnectX-2 EN 10Gb SFP+ single port (works great with a Mikrotik CRS226 switch!)
- 2x Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
- ASUS Z9PE-D8 WS motherboard
- Supermicro SC732 chassis
- Seasonic 650w 80+ Gold PSU
- Compact and quiet (<38dba from 3ft), but very powerful. Only reboots have been for Windows Updates over the past 18 months
For those wondering, the replacement is a 2x 10 core V3 system with 256GB RAM and 16x SSDs also in the SC732 case (2x 8-in-1 enclosures) and with the same coolers. With the PWM fans these stay cool and quiet.
Recommended video cards: ASUS STRIX GTX 970 or Quadro K4000 / K4200 to keep noise to a minimum.
Price $1250 + 50 shipping.
damn! should I get this to add to my x264 transcoding farm?!
