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Budget (including currency): $600 Country: UAE Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Anno 1800, Civ 5, Far Cry 5. Deep Learning using Tensor Flow, some virtualisation testing using VM Ware Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): Current Parts list CPU: i7-990x CPU Cooler: Be Quiet Dar Roack Pro 4 (New 3 months ago) MotherBoard: Gigabye G1.Sniper GPU - Nvidia GV100 (Provided by Employeer while remote working) Memory: 24 Gig Ram (DDR3) Case: NZXT H510 (New 3 months ago) Storage: 2x 2TB 2.5 SSD 2x 8TB Seagate Monitors LG 34UG97 Ultra Wide 2x Dell Ultrasharp 4k Display D2718Q, (Provided by Employeer while remote working) I am planning to update the CPU, Motherboard, Memory and M.2 SSD My Options are below 1. Intel i5-10400 or Intel 10700, 64Gig Ram, 1TB Samsun SSD. B460 motherboard. I am not planning overclock. Other than 2x extra cores i do not see much benefit of the 10700 over the 10400. The 10700 us double the cost here in UAE.. The system is not used very often and is not that slow, but i am getting fed up with the amount of heat coming from the PC. Thanks

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Yes it is a Xeon-W but at the price Apple are charging it should offer Xeon Gold as there are more pros for this and then it may be able to justify the price tag

I would agree with the comments about being out of spec. But no room in a normal house, villa, condo or apartment if going to have high humidity unless it’s a steam room. Seems like Adata have this clause to protect against water damaged components from failed water cooling. you can have 100% humidity and 50 Degrees C in the Middle East and it’s not a nice experience

If he is publishing to Apple store he will already own a Mac as you need to develop using Xcode.

A little late to reply to this, but I do not see how Apple can justify the cost of a basic entry level Xeon workstation chip. Dell / HP have systems cheaper with the Xeon Silver and Gold platform. Tye gold platform form allows dual CPU confit and additional PCIe lanes. I have both HP and Dell systems at work. There is no way Apple can compete with the service levels of HP/Dell in terms of a 4 hour replacement part service on there top tier service packages. Until Apple start to offer Nvidia solutions then Apple is a non starter for many people. a photo of my Dell precision 7920 attached

I use a piece of software called Directory Sync Pro I do this for my workstation backup internal HDD to a QNAP Nas Appliance

The K2s are being used to assist with the compute function only.

The Workstations are all Win 2008 R2 Enterprise Server for compatibility issues. We are investigating upgrading to a later MS Server Version, this is being undertaken on our older platform of HP 2x Hex Core Xeons operating at 3.47Ghz All software is written in house by us. Attached Typical CPU usage for a single VM, Run Time is critical for us Also I must ad that we also have a 480 CPU Hadoop Cluster, these Compute Clusters are occasionally repurposed and the Hadoop VM Cluster fired up to assist with big number crunching tasks

We are running a VMware Sphere platform. http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/ I am the Client!!! Designed internally to fit a certain requirement of our team. Our LTO has a 4 Tape Drive and 128 Slots The system is used by a total of 10 users, using our own bespoke software Also you quote VM Density, why is it terrible? The system was only virtualized so we can maintain a 100% uptime using VMotion. The system is operated at 80% load 7 days a week. so any over provisioning of the CPU and Memory will provide any advantages to the work we do. Virtualization was for management and reliability only. Yes we can operate 1000 normal Load PCs on this but it was built for a purpose.

In my opinion you should use a off the shelf Server. you just say loads of data? how much is loads? what are the IOPS Is there an existing SQL database if so can you use the Microsoft tool to obtain the IOPS and other data. you can use this to specify your server. what kind of SQL server is it a transaction database or just a large database that's got to big for access For MS SQL what version are you using? some version of SQL have CPU Limits my idea approach would be to span the SQL database across 2-3 machines. one as a master DB server and 1 as a slave these 2 would be configured to do the load balancing of the users so to provide a stable platform and prevents against single point of failure. I would have a 3rd Backup SQL server ready to go online but of a significant lower spec. but enabling you to but this online if the first 2 fail. Regarding the IOPS this will let you specify the number of spindles you need in your raid to provide enough headroom over the current committed peak IOPS

I don't know if this is of interest to anyone here. but we have just finished a deployment at work that covers the following Requirements to provide 50 Workstations in centralized location for power and network redundancy 25 Compute Servers SAN data Store Compute Cluster (All data stored on SAN) Dual E5-2667-2 (3.3Ghz 8 Core) 96 Gig Ram 1.2 TB Extreme SF Fast Cache Nvidia GRiD K2 Graphics 2x Power Supplies SAN Data Store (Tiered Storage) 400x 900Gig SAS Drive 20x 200GB Fast Cache 14x Power Supplies VMs 16 Core or 32 Core 40 or 80 Gig 1536 Graphics Cores Allocated to Each 16 Core VM 3072 Graphics Cores Allocated to Each 32 Core VM All Data Stores are located on the SAN no storage in Compute Cluster NAS - Archive Solution 300x 2TB NL-SAS Network Converged Fibre SAN/10Gig Network to all Compute Clusters Redundancy in Networking 2x Cisco Nexus Switches Others 2hr UPS power supply for Primary power (Electrical Supply 1 from National Grid) 15 Minute power supply for Secondary Power (Backup Electrical Supply from National Grid alternative circuit) secondary power supply has provision to be power by onsite generator for 30 days. Backup Local backup provided by VNX snapshot Offisite backup provided by Veritas (Local and Offsite appliances installed in datacenter) NAS is backed up on a Quantum Tape library and tapes rotated to secure offsite location.

So the display will work in display port mode only.... I don't appreciate that. Now that opens up a whole new range of options... Just wish I could test before ordering

I am midway through putting together an order for a load of new components. At the moment i am happy with my apple Thunderbolt display and would want to keep it for use on a PC based system. Does anyone know if the above motherboard which has thunderbolt 3 allows the connection of a thunderbolt display?