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Honestly id back out as if this m1000e fails the blades are literally for the bin.
 
Id opt for some more normal standalone blades as appearantly this thing can do a 2000w+ bootup spike and blow breakers I just found out.
 
So yeah not great. I mean worst case you got a dope coffee table/drawer piece of furniture

Small update there are 6 reddit users that got these in the pas 3 years. 2 gave up, 1 vanished, 2 shut the project down due to heat, noise, energy and performance and 1 seems to still be runnjng it as a homelab as from 2021 but in a very stripped down state.
 
Keep in mind the thing without blades also consumes about 300w its not meant to be efficient but to be reliable so you better have some deep pockets and/or solar and cheap energy.
 
Also means lots of heat. Its basically like running a space heater 😛. Only it also causes permanent hearing damage.

I hope you have a temperature controlled, air filtered and noise dampened to hell room because otherwise you are going to be in a world of pain and suffering.
 
What even is the goal of this pc? As these are normallt purpose built as thats how they were designed. So before you set out on a quest to get blades you need to know EXACTLY what you need.
 
1. Dell m620s are xeon v1 and v2 2600 series only. There are no compatible xron v3 8000 blades
 
2. Yes to a point
 
3. These are redundant and youll need a minimum operational for function
 
4. You have entered the wild wild wild wild wild west here this stuff is basically unobtainium usually
 
I really hope you had a plan for this other than it was cheap so I got it 😛

I’m not fully sure what could be causing this.  Simple things to try are updating your OS and Apps to see if that mitigates crashing.  However could be a firmware issue, so may be worth checking drivers are in date and maybe even updating bios.

Also may be to do with the PC’s sleep state, as there’s many different types, however not fully sure.

Those Envy x360 15" Models do exist with a 400 nit bright screen. Take that, or save untill you can afford it.
Touchscreens are always Glare. If you use a Pen, the Display will reflect ceiling lights.
2 bad things coming together = 250 nits will most likely NOT be bright enough to counter the reflections. You might have a bad Time there.
 
Third one is fine, but it's NOT a Convertible. If that's important for you.

Personally rocked a Linksy BT Adaptor and a TP link 150mb/s wifi Adaptor for years.
 
you’ll get higher ping than intergrated but it’ll still work
 
just remember when you first plug it in to get drivers you’ll either need to plug in by router until drivers are downloaded or download drivers from a dvd

Yeah, gpu will be fine, I’d say best step is to follow a tutorial on YouTube on how to use DDU to uninstall drivers, then reinstall all new stable drivers and see if crashes remain

Yeah that’s 95%+ chance it’s not a PSU issue, that’s 
 

the process of removing all existing drivers and putting the pc to a base state to make sure nothing from the old drivers is conflicting

Gpu OC can often be done using the software that comes with the card
 
but if you don’t know how to do it you won’t have done it before so don’t worry about that step

That psu sounds up to the job in all honesty so I can’t imagine it’s that
 
I think some are having problems with 3000 series crashing on unreal and certain game engines right now however it’s out of my area of expertise to diagnose software issues to that level

For all I know it could even end up being like some of the early AMD400 series gpu’s that got recalled for high power spikes.
 
However my diagnosis wouldn’t be the psu in this case. Try lowering the clock speed of RAM and make sure no OC is running on 3070ti as that’s been a problem I’ve encountered in the passed from a different system. Then if it still happens I’m afraid that’s beyond my expertise
 
Best of luck!!
 

try this
https://kinsta.com/knowledgebase/xampp-server-certificate-does-not-include-an-id-which-matches-the-server-name/

no need, you can just run linux with virtual machine (virtualbox or vmware), there's a bunch of tutorial to route the network so it can be accessed from outside your pc.
1. install vmware / virtualbox.
2. get ubuntu LTS server (no gui). install in virtual machine.
3. after install finished, install AMP (apache, mysql and php)
this will be laborious, but for the sake of learning this should be fun. 
 
you can also install a ready made LAMP package, everything included with bitnami.
https://bitnami.com/stack/lamp/virtual-machine

btw you can try using http instead of https, since https needs ssl certificate to work.

Thank you for the recommendation, to be honest I might have to look for one, however as I’m moving house moneys a tad tighter right now so will be a while before I get a new server, however when I’m ready, if you’re still active would love some advice at a later date 
 
But thank you both for the help as I really appreciate this, and either way thank you for the warning signs on future servers
 
Have a great rest of your day wherever you are and thank you for all these suggestions as it’s really helped me out

Thank you for the recommendation, to be honest I might have to look for one, however as I’m moving house moneys a tad tighter right now so will be a while before I get a new server, however when I’m ready, if you’re still active would love some advice at a later date 
 
But thank you both for the help as I really appreciate this, and either way thank you for the warning signs on future servers
 
Have a great rest of your day wherever you are and thank you for all these suggestions as it’s really helped me out

Only ones they put behind the contract or in warranty requirements is System BIOS and the Service Pack for ProLiant ISO. Can't think of any others I've seen that require login to get the download. Not really a problem for me since I do have an account.
 
Also in general the Gen8's can be hit or miss as there was a known bug that caused the iLO flash media to prematurely fail and while an iLO firmware update was released to correct that many didn't apply it or did so too late (myself included, RIP). So while I very much prefer HPE myself caution around buying Gen8's needs to be understood, you could get a lemon.

12th gen Dell PowerEdge servers (Rx20) are pretty much at the price/performance sweet spot now. (HP Gen8s are relatively affordable too, but they've been putting more and more of their updates and drivers behind a support contract pay wall.) I replaced a bunch of older machines in my homelab with four of those (one R720xd storage server and three R620 compute nodes); no regrets so far.
 
Just check the service tag of any used servers you pick up to see which CPUs they came with; older examples need a BIOS update to use V2s (and that can be a process if they're running version 1.xx.xx). Honestly I wouldn't run anything older than that; LGA1366 is getting long in the tooth, and forget about LGA771. 

I’ll look into that, thank you very much for the suggestion, and I don’t expect to glue, but atleast share a few resources where possible
 
I will dread it, but my power bill is killer either way with other experiments, so trust me, I’m used to it
however I will go into iDRAC and cry in a little bit 

I mean the entire servers, probably also only worth that much anyway not that I've looked. Servers of that generation and platform are mostly only nice to look at and get hands on experience with that type of hardware or to keep around for historical and sentimental reasons. Actually trying to use them for real workloads, they'll get eaten alive by modern 15W-25W CPUs. Way better used Xeon platforms can be found for very low to reasonable cost.
 
It's much like buying a classic Ferrari and trying to race it, you can get a 90's used Honda Type R and destroy it easily.

You can run a hypervisor like HyperV, ESXi, or Proxmox. They will let you divvy them up into virtual machines that can be moved between nodes, but that's not exactly like gluing them together into one large machine. (You can't run one large instance over multiple nodes.)
 
I'm preemptively pressing F for your power bill, too. Each of those probably idles at somewhere around 300 watts. (You can check this inside iDRAC, but measuring at the wall with a Kill-a-Watt is more accurate.)

In all honesty as mentioned in another comment, I got 12 for £30 with some extras
 
I very much like the Ferrari vs Honda analogy, however these old Ferraris are sentimental as I bought my first opteron system in a project way knowing they were the beating heart of the Titan Super Computer from 2013, however since, I’ve just used them for testing and as ‘collection pieces’ really only driving them occasionally 

You can set them up as Network Render Nodes and send render jobs to them from the Cinebench application. A single job won't span across multiple nodes but if you have many renders to run then multiple nodes will speed up the overall total combined render time.
 
There is no such thing as a dumb question, well there is by lets gloss over that lol. Not a waste of time at all.
 
Xeons platforms from the LGA2011 and LGA2011v2 are great and fairly reasonable cost wise. They still have largely modern day performance too. I have a lot of LGA1366 servers myself but I wouldn't buy any more of them now.
 
Also honestly if I were offered that price for both I probably would have gotten them too, I don't know why or what I'd do with them but that's just adding to the collection of things I have done the exact same thing.

Well first of all those are horribly old and slow CPUs, I'd look at selling them off and buying something newer and better that will be vastly faster.
 
As to clustering, you need to be aware that this doesn't allow a single VM, container, application, process to span across multiple systems. Clustering allows you to move these easily between systems and also treat them as a single management entity to deploy these types of services on to.
 
If you have a rather fixed requirement like a single piece of software then the best OS will be the one that this application is best supported or runs best on. If you need to host many different things then a Hypervisor like ESXi/Hyper-V/KVM(or KVM based derivatives) would be the best choice.
 
We'd need to know more about your intended usage of these servers to give good advice, however the general advice that those Opteron 6380 are older than their practical use today so honestly just shouldn't be used at all.

The Linux family of operating systems is the best for multi-CPU and cluster setups. Period. There's a reason that every single one of the top supercomputers in the world runs Linux: it's the best for that type of computer.
 
If you are unfamiliar with Linux, I'd recommend starting with Ubuntu, as there is a lot of documentation and support resources, it has better software support than most other distributions, and it's still quite stable and robust, even if it isn't the absolute best in that last regard.

Cheap way to get some RF shielding. Basically everyone does it.
 
When I say "cheap" I don't mean it in a bad way, just that it doesn't cost much to implement but does basically as good a job as a bent/punched metal sheet.