max budget of 300$ and want a server to play with

[Hibyemy]

i have a max budget of 300$ and want a server to play with but idk which to buy here's some of the options

1

2

• 2x Intel Xeon E5-2660 V2 - 2.20GHZ 10 Core
• 64GB - 4x16GB PC3-10600R DDR3 Registered
• Modular Dell H310 PERC RAID Controller
• iDRAC 7 Express
• 8x Enterprise 600GB 10k 2.5"" SAS Hard Drive

3

• DL360p Gen8 2.5"" 8-Bay Server
• 2x E5-2670 Processors
• 96GB RAM
• 2x 300GB 2.5"" Hard Drives (2 Trays included with 2 drives)
• P420i

aiming for best value.

 

 

 

 

[Zando_]

By “to play with” do you mean games or general fuckery? 
 

Also I hope you’re aware old servers are very loud, power hungry, and those lengthy rackmounts will be a pain in the ass to kee anywhere other than, well, a rack. 

[Moonzy]

server is just like any computer tho, only the enclosure might be different

 

what's your purpose?

[Hibyemy]

11 hours ago, Zando Bob said:

By “to play with” do you mean games or general fuckery? 
 

Also I hope you’re aware old servers are very loud, power hungry, and those lengthy rackmounts will be a pain in the ass to kee anywhere other than, well, a rack. 

 general fuckery
and its gonna be in the attic so its fine not like im gonna hear it and power hungry im fine.

[Hibyemy]

11 hours ago, Moonzy said:

server is just like any computer tho, only the enclosure might be different

 

what's your purpose?

just to mess around, might even put a gpu in and see what happens lol

[Moonzy]

1 hour ago, Hibyemy said:

just to mess around, might even put a gpu in and see what happens lol

Aight, but it's just like any other computer as I've said

[Hibyemy]

15 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

Aight, but it's just like any other computer as I've said

ik its probally cheaper than normal tower workstations

[Jarsky]

Use the money to upgrade your CPU on your main rig to an i7 9700 and double your RAM and create virtual machines for stuff you want to play around with? 

[Hibyemy]

38 minutes ago, Jarsky said:

Use the money to upgrade your CPU on your main rig to an i7 9700 and double your RAM and create virtual machines for stuff you want to play around with? 

ik it's already planed but i rather have a septate machine that i can play around without worrying breaking it, but have more horse power than a raspi. and main system upgrade also in works.

[Pixel5]

its a very easy way to burn money but if thats what you want to do just buy any of the servers you listed above.

 

If you want something that actually decent and useable but something like an i3 10100 with the cheapest motherboard and case you can find and you will probably have better performance then anything you have posted.

[Hibyemy]

On 5/7/2021 at 8:12 AM, Pixel5 said:

its a very easy way to burn money but if thats what you want to do just buy any of the servers you listed above.

 

If you want something that actually decent and useable but something like an i3 10100 with the cheapest motherboard and case you can find and you will probably have better performance then anything you have posted.

18932 passmark vs 8859 passmark lmao for 300$ you might get like 1/8th the ram 1/8th storage 

[Jarsky]

4 hours ago, Hibyemy said:

18932 passmark vs 8859 passmark lmao for 300$ you might get like 1/8th the ram 1/8th storage 

Depends what you're doing, if you're going to run Plex/Emby/Jellyfin then the i3 will absolutely smash the Xeons for transcoding performance if you enable hw transcoding.. 

Also the i3's IPC performance is considerably higher for single threaded use if you have a use case where you have very few applications that need clock time. 

Additionally if power cost is a concern the i3 is substantially more power efficient 

 

 

 

[Pixel5]

18 hours ago, Hibyemy said:

18932 passmark vs 8859 passmark lmao for 300$ you might get like 1/8th the ram 1/8th storage 

If the passmark score would be everything that matters we would all be using old Xeon CPU´s for our rigs but because this is not the case this is only done by people who want to run applications that benefit from massive parallelization and a lot of RAM which the majority of people dont do.

 

You dont even know what you want to do with your server so the most important question for you should not be which passmark score is higher but instead of "general fuckery" is supposed to be and if general fuckery benefits more from many cores or from high single core performance.