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Pictures Of Your Dually Rigs!

so for years i wanted a dual processor system to use as a server and to play around with. i used to have an AMD A8-6600K working as a server but running plex and a few game servers (conan exiles when playing with the bros, don't starve together when playing with the GF) at the same time brought it to its knees. now it finally happened, and i got a dell T610 off ebay for 160€ shipped!

it came with 2 xeon E5620s, 24gigs of ram and 6 15k rpm SAS drives:

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so, first things first - fan modding. the OEM case/cpu fans are really loud, so throwing them out for something quieter is quite common. apparently the usual choice for these are arctic F9 PWM fans, but i chose some be quiets:

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and as luck would have it, the pins from the be quiet fans, once extracted from the standard 4-pin connector, fit the dell proprietary plug. no soldering needed at all! the difference now is day and night.

next up: CPUs. for another 100€ (shipped) i got a matched pair of xeon X5670s, for a total of 12 cores, 24 threads. the old TIM was literally rock solid, i had to use a plastic scraper on the coolers to get it all off. here are the old cpus, now clean:

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anyone need some old s1366 xeons? i'd rather not throw them in a box to be forgotten. if you are in europe and want them, just hit me up - they're free.

finally, installing an MSI GTX1050 for plex hardware-based encoding. had to mod on of the PCIe slots to make it fit, since you're only supposed to put x8-long cards in it.

system is running windows server 2016 on a 240gig sandisk ssd i had laying around. another one of those is on its way, so i can put the OS/backup drive in raid 1.

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obligatory task manager and cinebench shots:

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i love this thing, low-level-IPMI access is a god-send and now everything i need to run does so flawlessly.

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things to do: maybe get some extra ram, since it's cheap and wait for the three extra 4TB HGST drives to arrive to extend my plex library. i'm quite happy (y)
 
is the xeon X5670s the fastest chip for the 1366 socket ? as i have a tyan s7010 mobo with the old cpus that you have removed from ur system and looking to buy some X5670s for about 70 quid. as i am about 760 on cinebench :(
 
the fastest 5600-series xeon would be the X5690 with 3.46GHz base / 3.73GHz Turbo. they are around 100 bucks each. cost/performance-wise i think the X5670 or X5675 are the sweet spot.
 
do i need to buy a matched pair of cpus or can i just get 2 the same spec and fit those? ones i was bidding on went over budget at £80
 
jetfire said:
do i need to buy a matched pair of cpus or can i just get 2 the same spec and fit those? ones i was bidding on went over budget at £80
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You would just need two of the same spec. So two x5670s for example are what I run in one of my servers that aren't a matched pair. It just has to be the same model.
 
i got 2 x5670s for £79 and free postage,but i dont have ecc memory does this matter ? as says not supported with the cpus i have and supported with x5670s.
 
jetfire said:
i got 2 x5670s for £79 and free postage,but i dont have ecc memory does this matter ? as says not supported with the cpus i have and supported with x5670s.
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This is a showoff thread, not a how to build a dually rig thread. ;)
 
I'm surprised this thread is still going!

I used to love dualies back in the day (Dual celerons in an Abit BP6a, but these days it's just easier to use a single massive core CPU for that purpose.

I have a dual Xeon in my server, and a single socket Threadripper in my workstation, and the Workstation is by far the beefier, and I don't even have to worry about NUMA nodes, or per socket licensing fees!

(though to be fair, the dual xeon is aging, so it's not a fair comparison, but the Threadripper does compare favorably to its contemporary dualies too)
 
T-Bird_TS said:
But the threadripper is way more expensive. My Dual xeon rig with 128gb of ram cost 600
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I didn't realize they were that much cheaper! That's quite a fantastic bang for the buck! (if you can call any system with 28 cores "bang for the buck" :p )

How does it perform in common many core benchmarks?
 
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Might have already posted it in the retro thread, but here's my Dual Pentium Pro that I'm going to do a build with next. I modded the Shuttle HOT-613 board from a single socket to a dual socket. ( thread: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=71445 )

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Very impressive work!

I've tried my hand at hand soldering boards, and lets just say it didn't goo too well.

Did you actually have to add any surface mount components, or was it just the through hole pins on the socket?
 
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I didn't realize they were that much cheaper! That's quite a fantastic bang for the buck! (if you can call any system with 28 cores "bang for the buck" :p )
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Oh yeah, they definitely can be. (y) My HP z600 with dual x5650 and 96GB of ram was under $200 shipped. Not bad for 12c/24t even if a bit older. Most of that cost was the ram upgrades.
 
Happy this thread is still going! I last posted in here in 2011!!
This thread revival inspired me to max out my old dual socket 2011 board with a pair of Intel E5 2697 V2 - the absolute cream of the crop for the original socket 2011.
Going in to a Supermicro X9DAi board with 128GB ECC DDR3 1600 16x8GB UDIMMS (probably cost more than the CPUs and board back when I bought them) and an antec signature PSU (Delta rebrand)
I'm currently using an Intel OEM server with 128GB DDR4 ECC and Dual Intel E5 2620 V4 CPU's for my home ESXi host.

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I'll post some more photos when the new CPUs show up (and of the Intel server when I clean my rack up!)

I'd love to benchmark my current workstation 1900x Threadripper against the other two, does anyone have any recommendations for free, preferably cross-platform benchmark tools?
 
afterlife said:
Happy this thread is still going! I last posted in here in 2011!!
This thread revival inspired me to max out my old dual socket 2011 board with a pair of Intel E5 2697 V2 - the absolute cream of the crop for the original socket 2011.
Going in to a Supermicro X9DAi board with 128GB ECC DDR3 1600 16x8GB UDIMMS (probably cost more than the CPUs and board back when I bought them) and an antec signature PSU (Delta rebrand)
I'm currently using an Intel OEM server with 128GB DDR4 ECC and Dual Intel E5 2620 V4 CPU's for my home ESXi host.

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I'll post some more photos when the new CPUs show up (and of the Intel server when I clean my rack up!)

I'd love to benchmark my current workstation 1900x Threadripper against the other two, does anyone have any recommendations for free, preferably cross-platform benchmark tools?
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That's a nice 2011 setup that has even more room to grow since the motherboard supports ecc reg and lrdimms which can be found a larger as 64GB/ea. :D The good thing is those 8GB ecc udimms are worth a minimum of $25/ea as they're essential for maxing out older servers that only work with ecc udimms, and you can replace them with 16GB ecc reg modules for around the same cost if not less, hereby doubling your ram to 256GB. And if you look hard enough, you should be able to find 4rx4 32GB ecc reg modules for the same price that would bring you up to 512GB of ram. (y) Which paired with the new cpus should breathe some serious new life into this setup for sure.

I'm curious where al those 4x sata cables go. :eek: Looks like you've got a 24x drive setup. :)
 
The components:
2x 3090 RTX Founders Edition & SLI / NvLink bridge newest bios
2x 8280L, 56/112 cores, Asus c621 Sage Dual socket motherboard, bios 6605 modded
1.5 TB ram. DDR4 ECC LRDIMMs
1600W silent digital power supply
(Data drive) 4x VROC Raid 0 Micron 9300 Max (12.8TB each / 51.2 TB volume) and 8TB backup drive array
(OS Drive) Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus (4TB). 4x Phanteks T30,120mm, Noiseblocker 92mm for nvme drivers
Asus PA32UCG-K monitor, 103 firmware
TT SFF case, micro. and heavily modded
MS Data Center 2022 (customized) & Ubuntu (customized)


https://gravitymark.tellusim.com/leaderboard/

So, my rig is 15 months old. I guess I wanted to share and show what one can do with a ThermalTake P1 SFF/Micro case.
As well as achieve highest scores in applicable benchmarks (more than just gaming).

I take my work home with me as well as do my dissertation in deep learning/machine learning, medical imaging and isotopes...o f course I game on it as well, write papers, do email, surf the net, and post in this forum (since before 2004).

These were my guidelines in doing the build:
  • It must be a God Box
  • It must be silent
  • It must run cool
  • It must not require any unusual maintenance
  • It must be air cooled
  • It must compact/dense
  • It must be stable and reliable

So the rig involved cutting up, reinforcing and expanding on a ThermaTake P1 case. It involved modifying heatsinks, creating drive holders, creating space between the motherboard and the PCIe components, cooling the fast and warm micron nvme drives (52TB raid worth) and cools the main OS nvme drive, cool and power the dual 3090 FE RTXs nvLink SLI, cool 1.5TB of LRDIMMs, and cool the dual 8280L xeons.

threads are worthless without pics so here you go:

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Venturi said:
The components:
2x 3090 RTX Founders Edition & SLI / NvLink bridge newest bios
2x 8280L, 56/112 cores, Asus c621 Sage Dual socket motherboard, bios 6605 modded
1.5 TB ram. DDR4 ECC LRDIMMs
1600W silent digital power supply
(Data drive) 4x VROC Raid 0 Micron 9300 Max (12.8TB each / 51.2 TB volume)
(OS Drive) Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus (4TB). 4x Phanteks T30,120mm, Noiseblocker 92mm for nvme drivers
Asus PA32UCG-K monitor, 103 firmware
TT SFF case, micro. and heavily modded
MS Data Center 2022 (customized) & Ubuntu (customized)


https://gravitymark.tellusim.com/leaderboard/

So, my rig is 15 months old. I guess I wanted to share and show what one can do with a ThermalTake P1 SFF/Micro case.
As well as achieve highest scores in applicable benchmarks (more than just gaming).

I take my work home with me as well as do my dissertation in deep learning/machine learning, medical imaging and isotopes...o f course I game on it as well, write papers, do email, surf the net, and post in this forum (since before 2004).

These were my guidelines in doing the build:
  • It must be a God Box
  • It must be silent
  • It must run cool
  • It must not require any unusual maintenance
  • It must be air cooled
  • It must compact/dense
  • It must be stable and reliable

So the rig involved cutting up, reinforcing and expanding on a ThermaTake P1 case. It involved modifying heatsinks, creating drive holders, creating space between the motherboard and the PCIe components, cooling the fast and warm micron nvme drives (52TB raid worth) and cools the main OS nvme drive, cool and power the dual 3090 FE RTXs nvLink SLI, cool 1.5TB of LRDIMMs, and cool the dual 8280L xeons.

threads are worthless without pics so here you go:

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Not that I can afford but what did it cost to put this God machine together?
 
Deadjasper said:
Not that I can afford but what did it cost to put this God machine together?
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never really added it up, it was put together over time. Some parts were used from my prior build (4x Titan V build including Titan V 32GB CEO ed). I sold a lot of the prior components to help finance the build.

I think if someone added up the price of the individual parts they'd get a rough aidea, but again, it was built from migrating prior systems and selling and buying.

My other other build is at my wife's desk and she uses dual 3090s as well. We sold her prior Titan Vs to help finance that build as well (but I kept the Titan V 32GB CEO ed)

So its transient as in selling and buying and migrating from one build to the next, the PC wasn't a from scratch cost.


A few of the prior builds and necessary components.
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Venturi said:
never really added it up, it was put together over time. Some parts were used from my prior build (4x Titan V build including Titan V 32GB CEO ed). I sold a lot of the prior components to help finance the build.

I think if someone added up the price of the individual parts they'd get a rough aidea, but again, it was built from migrating prior systems and selling and buying.

My other other build is at my wife's desk and she uses dual 3090s as well. We sold her prior Titan Vs to help finance that build as well (but I kept the Titan V 32GB CEO ed)

So its transient as in selling and buying and migrating from one build to the next, the PC wasn't a from scratch cost.


A few of the prior builds and necessary components.
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Pure Awesomeness.
 
Love the Skyline collection in those photos as well as the systems. :)

Like a really nice hand-build car, those systems really take system building to a high art. Very well done. (y)
 
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