Expanding the home lab - got a tight budget for this load up, and I'm being tempted by AMD APU setups. I don't need a ~ton~ of CPU power for anything (I'm not running production - some web servers, some VDI desktops, a couple of small databases), but I don't have any hands on experience with the APU (specifically, the latest A10 4-core models) to know how much horsepower they actually have.
I can build nodes with the A10-7850 and 16G of ram for about $300 a pop (including 3 compatible network interfaces), which is about $200 cheaper than any Intel setup I've come up with so far (especially since I don't need storage), but I don't want to buy into something that is going to be dog slow. Anyone tried these so far? I also looked at the ThinkServer everyone is doing, but when you add in 16G of ECC to those, they're a good bit pricier than the APU setup would be.
I can build nodes with the A10-7850 and 16G of ram for about $300 a pop (including 3 compatible network interfaces), which is about $200 cheaper than any Intel setup I've come up with so far (especially since I don't need storage), but I don't want to buy into something that is going to be dog slow. Anyone tried these so far? I also looked at the ThinkServer everyone is doing, but when you add in 16G of ECC to those, they're a good bit pricier than the APU setup would be.