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There were quite a few more steps taken than what I said, I believe I already tried the bog standard CentOS 6.8 build and was still seeing issues. Not too much was tweaked, mainly the bus speeds and increased the file descriptors. We later on then updated IXGBE to 4.4.6 which was still the same issues (it was then also compiled with the "DIXGBE_NO_LRO" flags.

It's a Supermicro X10SLE, the NIC itself was a Intel 82599ES SFI/SFP+

Yeah, I went to CentOS 7 before Ubuntu but got stuck on getting the NIC working with it. I didn't really have time to play around with it so had to swap to Ubuntu. Sorry, what do you mean by "What physical system is this"?

We recently upgraded our "firewall" (Basically a linux machine that acts as a firewall in front of our windows machines) to a 10Ge line and NIC. We immediately ran into issues with dropouts exactly every 10 minutes, at first we believed this to be problems with the optics as Intel have periodic checks to check if they are Intel Certified etc, we were using Juniper 10Ge SR's, so these were replaced. This seemed to fix it, but 4 hours later we again saw dropouts exactly every 10 minutes. At this point, I fully reinstalled CentOS 6.8 and did a bunch of kernel changes to tune the system for 10Ge speeds. After changing the routes back through our firewall, we again saw dropouts. Because this was now causing quite severe issues, we reverted back to our 1Ge line and on-board Ethernet. This then started happening again which confused the heck out of me. We have now fixed the issue by swapping to Ubuntu 16.10 and running 10Ge NIC and fiber lines happily on there, does anyone have any ideas what could have caused this? There were no kernel panics or any sort of messages or logs anywhere, just dropouts exactly every 10 minutes for 10~ seconds. I'll happily put up a test environment outside of the production one for testing and try and reproduce it as I've not really worked with Ubuntu in the past and would rather swap back. There are some things online showing that you need to disable LRO and GRO which was done (We even recompiled the IXGBE drivers without them enabled at all).

After some testing with a 4690k overclocked to 4.6GHz at 40% load I was seeing just over 0.4A being pulled. This should be fine then as we have 0.45A and purchasing an extra 0.1A only costs £3 extra.

Hi, I'm building a machine pretty soon that will be: i7-6700k 16GB Ram 1TB HDD This will actually be a server for game hosting, so will require no graphics card. Reading online, I've seen a ton of conflicting posts about power consumption on this CPU. For example, at idle the CPU is only suppose to pull around 15W yet having a power meter on my own PC is showing 130W idle usage with a i5 4690k and a GTX 760. I don't see how the wattage is so high, guessing it's my GPU? I'm limited to 0.45A so I'm needing to work this out.

The K versions of intel chips don't support vPro, I was looking into that solution previously.

Yes, but I don't typically want to risk deploying these servers and not have control over remotely rebooting the server or remote access to bios etc. If the server was to freeze up for whatever reason, I would have to pay for remote hands or drive 2 hours to reboot it manually.

We require using a 6700K as our processor, as we need very high single core performance. This will also be overclocked. This is why I'm struggling to find a server we can get with remote management and this CPU

This will be in London Docklands through a separate provider. Was told they have temp IP KVMs but should only really be used in emergencies (this also still can't remote reboot afaik).

Yeah, after looking into it a bit the boards that support that module and the 6700k starts at around £250+. Unfortunately we can't use a full unit like that as we won't have enough room. Even simple remote PDU would be useful at this point, can't travel to the dc every time windows freezes up :(.

We are currently building a few machines for colocation next week and are looking for the best way to remotely manage these. Currently running Asus Z170-K boards and found this: https://www.asus.com/uk/Commercial-Servers-Workstations/ASMB5iKVM/ (ASMB4-iKVM) From what I can see, this will work. However I wanted to see if anyone else has used these before? Hoping to find something on the cheap side (£30 ($40)~). Looking for remote power control and being able to remotely control it while in the bios etc.

Vessel Username: Mrkrabz https://www.vessel.com/videos/HDN7G5UMs https://www.vessel.com/videos/LCoY5zfFf

Been with Virgin Media since Telewest, have been given free upgrades from 60Mb to 150Mb (getting 180Mb speeds). Had youtube issues as most other users can probably relate but it was eventually fixed. I'm currently paying £47/m.

First problem I have is that I'm running at too high of a voltage myself, I as recommended didn't put it past 1.25 I'm currently testing 1.20 volts at 4.3GHz and it's seems to be stable at 50-55c.