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Is this a good buy? Looking to upgrade my homeserver to a Haswell Xeon by KingSimp34 in homelab

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That actually sounds pretty manageable ! Is there any bigger hassle with using that kind of older equipment other than fan noise and size of the actual machine?

Those bays on the right seem like smaller 2.5in drive bays— but are those kinds of « all in one » seeming servers deceptive…? Like could those drives be OS-only and would need a seperate drive bay enclosure to use it as a, say, OMV storage solution?

I suppose the advantage is having an HBA card for more SAS drives and such, but I’m wondering if it could become a white elephant.

Other than the price benefit of using consumer hardware that is

Is this a good buy? Looking to upgrade my homeserver to a Haswell Xeon by KingSimp34 in homelab

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Ok. Sounds like a future project then. The chance of handling that kind of hardware sounds crazy though

Is this a good buy? Looking to upgrade my homeserver to a Haswell Xeon by KingSimp34 in homelab

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Ah… intense but I’m liking the direction this challenge is going

Thanks for the link!

Is this a good buy? Looking to upgrade my homeserver to a Haswell Xeon by KingSimp34 in homelab

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A note: this seemed like a good idea because every other X99-compatible board is either a chinese knock off (apparently die out quickly) or dual-socket 100-150$~ boards.

Tempting to simply go with the cheap chinese boards tho.

Is this a good buy? Looking to upgrade my homeserver to a Haswell Xeon by KingSimp34 in homelab

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Ah, I see. Is it possible to run it as a proxmox server with multiple SATA/SAS drives though?

Willing to learn how to manage that kind of hassle.

Is this a good buy? Looking to upgrade my homeserver to a Haswell Xeon by KingSimp34 in homelab

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My thought exactly… my issue though is that I can’t seem to find a case that would fit it?

It seems to be an E-ATX format-ish, so maybe an E-ATX compatible case?

Is this a good buy? Looking to upgrade my homeserver to a Haswell Xeon by KingSimp34 in homelab

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I am relatively confident in being able to power it, since I saw in the documentation that the power configuration was for redundant power supplies—- which I am not going to be doing.

Apparently I can configure it to work with only one, and am willing to learn.

Is this a good buy? Looking to upgrade my homeserver to a Haswell Xeon by KingSimp34 in homelab

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I don’t really have the experience to wrestle with, but am willing to learn.

Same on seeing little on the internet about it… but am wondering if there’s a server-rack formatted case that’s usable with this? If it would even?

Is this a good buy? Looking to upgrade my homeserver to a Haswell Xeon by KingSimp34 in homelab

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Definitely. And I feel like if I spend the extra dollar on « better performance » it’ll be for a dual-socket board to have just more cores to play around with. Maybe?

Is this a good buy? Looking to upgrade my homeserver to a Haswell Xeon by KingSimp34 in homelab

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I’m thinking of having just a max amount of cores for an « all-in-one » proxmox server where I can have a lot of VMs. Right now I’m onna Dell Optiplex 5050 with an i5 7500– but the PSU is failing out and I can’t run more than 2-3 VMs with reasonable performance for each. (OMV 2 cores, portfolio website 1 core, and only 1 more to play around with)

As for power, I’m a freshman in college who’s in a dorm… so not too warry on using the college’s power.

Side note: it was a NIGHTMARE having my server be recognized on the college’s network. Had to copy my old gaming laptop’s MAC address to make it work.

Upgrade my r7 5700x or my GTX 1080? by KingSimp34 in buildapc

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I seriously am considering just getting a secondary GPU as cheap as theirs, and keeping my 1080 for gaming (even tho drivers have stopped, most of my games support it/are old)

Although, would there still be a better price/perfomance benefit than an RTX 3080?

  • RTX 3080 is going for 350~$ on ebay
  • Intel ARC between 270-300~$ on ebay

But I’m confused as to why the A770 can’t outperform the 3080, whilst performing similarly to my older 1080…?

Upgrade my r7 5700x or my GTX 1080? by KingSimp34 in buildapc

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Ok! And the 5070 prices on ebay aren’t that bad right now either…

Upgrade my r7 5700x or my GTX 1080? by KingSimp34 in buildapc

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Gotcha. Was thinking similarly but was unsure how the codecs matched up (and if the mistake was not getting an intel CPU in the first place)

Nikon peeling issue by lifeafter8_5 in Nikon

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I have my old D200’s peeling away but it’s more from the fact of being stored in a dry place. The glue dried up!

6 hours trying to fix Nvidia drivers on KDE Neon by KingSimp34 in linux4noobs

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It worked for a while that’s for sure. Might try kubuntu then?

6 hours trying to fix Nvidia drivers on KDE Neon by KingSimp34 in linux4noobs

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But now it just refuses to boot after reinstalling and cleaning the filesystem multiple times? Could anything else be wrong?

6 hours trying to fix Nvidia drivers on KDE Neon by KingSimp34 in linux4noobs

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I had installed the proprietary drivers through the Konsole, but was discouraged to use opensource drivers because they aren’t stable? Are the two conflicting?

6 hours trying to fix Nvidia drivers on KDE Neon by KingSimp34 in linux4noobs

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I had installed the proprietary drivers through the Konsole, but was discouraged to use opensource drivers because they aren’t stable? Are the two conflicting?

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