Server

[Daniel Farmer]

Hey all,

 

I was looking to make a cheap server, This is what I could come up with,

 

What would you change about this?

Motherboard	Price
R710 Motherboard	£90.00
Ram
Samsung 8GB Server Memory	£20.47
CPU
2 X INTEL XEON E5-2440 CPU	£75.00
Power Supply
HP 750W COMMON SLOT GOLD	£12
SSD
Kingston A400 480GB SSD	£52.01
HD
Seagate BarraCuda 2TB	£56.34
	Total : £305.82

[emosun]

7 minutes ago, Daniel Farmer said:

CPU   2 X INTEL XEON E5-2440 CPU £75.00

this sucks

those two cpu's together are roughly the exact speed of a single e5-2670 v1 yet they cost more

 

their speed is not linear when two are being used , you only have roughly a 50% increase and not the perceived 100%

7 minutes ago, Daniel Farmer said:

Power Supply   HP 750W COMMON SLOT GOLD £12

also 750w isn't needed , change wattage for a higher quality unit

[Daniel Farmer]

1 minute ago, emosun said:

this sucks

those two cpu's together are roughly the exact speed of a single e5-2670 v1 yet they cost more

 

their speed is not linear when two are being used , you only have roughly a 50% increase and not the perceived 100%

also 750w isn't needed , change wattage for a higher quality unit

What type of **CPU** and power supply would you recommend 

[emosun]

Just now, Daniel Farmer said:

What type of **CPU** and power supply would you recommend 

in the same speed range an old e5-2670 costs less. 

As for a power supply anything by a brand somebody has heard off would be a good start but read this guide
 

 

[Daniel Farmer]

Good CPU,

 

 

And as of the PS I could go for : EVGA 750 Watt GQ 80+ Gold

 

 

[Jarsky]

E5 Xeon's won't work in an R710 motherboard, its a Westmere (Socket B) motherboard. 

If you want a Dell board, you'd need an R420 or R520, they support the E5 2400 series. (or an R620 or R720 for the E5 2600 series)

 

The boards also have custom socketing for power, so you'd have to jerry-rig that if you wanted to run this without a case. 

It's going to be very ghetto having parts laying all over the place as well...its generally better to get a bare bones. 

 

If you can't afford the £500 to get a proper one, then maybe just get an old R710? The X5670's are very cheap for them. 

[Jackm-techy]

Jarsky is right here, you're looking at the wrong generation for that motherboard unfortunately. However you shouldn't have to look at R710 generation systems to keep a system under £500 anymore, recently E5-2600 (LGA-2011) socket systems have been dropping in value meaning you can get quite a deal nowadays. You can configure an R620 (using the better E5-2600 series over E5-2400) here with a similar spec but with E5-2670s (far better than the E5-2440s) and still have change left on £500.

 

https://www.bargainhardware.co.uk/dell-poweredge-r620-4-sff-configure-to-order