can i use my 8 core processor and am3+ tuff motherboard as a server?

[masterful68]

 

 

can i use my 8 core processor and am3+ tuff motherboard as a server?

A question was asked about use.: I have an insurance business and it would be home for the Website and the custom email for the agency.

I have the ASUS TUF TUF SABERTOOTH 990FX R3.0 AM3+ AMD 990FX/SB950 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 USB 3.0 ATX Motherboard and the AMD FX-8370E Eight-Core Processor  3.31 GHz

I have 32GB ram with the M.2 Socket as the Default. I am looking to make a server from it if i can. I dont have a lot of volume right now but I plan on having it act as an email server with separate logins for my agents.

I did not think the Video card made a difference so I kept the K600 on it. It is a very smooth system at current setup but I dont want to spend excess money on a server if i dont need to.. I will love any suggestion. here is a video of the build:

 

 

[Middcore]

My first impression is that this sounds very power-hungry for a server.

[tkitch]

For a home server, doing low-power unimportant things?  It'd be fine.

 

For a workplace?  I would have a lot of misgivings about that setup. 

[Origami Cactus]

Server for what? Minecraft? probably. Heavy 3D rendering? No, too powerhungry and slow. Server for sharing files on your home network? Fine. So without knowing what exactly you want to do with it, we can't answer.

[masterful68]

2 minutes ago, Origami Cactus said:

Server for what? Minecraft? probably. Heavy 3D rendering? No, too powerhungry and slow. Server for sharing files on your home network? Fine. So without knowing what exactly you want to do with it, we can't answer.

insurance

 

[Levent]

Yes. PS, there were no 8 core AM3 cpus. FX8350 performed on par with a Sandy bridge i3 that was released 2 years prior, it is fine just very inefficient.

[masterful68]

I believe the CPU only uses about 95 watts. i think

[Origami Cactus]

3 minutes ago, masterful68 said:

insurance

 

So an e-mail server? Would probably work, but it will just use a ton of power and produce a lot of heat, but seems fine for a small volume.

95w is not good for a cpu, that performs worse than a modern 15w cpu.

[masterful68]

1 minute ago, Levent said:

Yes. PS, there were no 8 core AM3 cpus. FX8350 performed on par with a Sandy bridge i3 that was released 2 years prior, it is fine just very inefficient.

https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/fx-8370e

atform

Boxed Processor

Product Family

AMD FX-Series Processors

Product Line

AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition Processors

# of CPU Cores

8

# of Threads

8

Max. Boost Clock

Up to 4.3GHz

Base Clock

3.3GHz

L1 Cache

384KB

L2 Cache

8MB

L3 Cache

8MB

Default TDP

95W

Processor Technology for CPU Cores

32nm SOI

Unlocked for Overclocking 

Yes

CPU Socket

AM3+

Max. Operating Temperature (Tjmax)

70.5°C

[masterful68]

8 minutes ago, tkitch said:

For a home server, doing low-power unimportant things?  It'd be fine.

 

For a workplace?  I would have a lot of misgivings about that setup. 

I am open to suggestions

[Zando_]

1 minute ago, masterful68 said:

I am open to suggestions

Use standard services, self-hosting your website and email is probably a bad idea if you depend on it for your business, and/or are not really experienced in that sort of thing. 

[tkitch]

Just now, masterful68 said:

I am open to suggestions

What you're talking about is an 8+ year old box that is expected to be reliable as a server in a business environment.

 

That's not really a good plan, cuz hardware does die.

 

low end mail hosting and the like is not expensive to get hosted online.  

[NelizMastr]

5 minutes ago, Zando_ said:

Use standard services, self-hosting your website and email is probably a bad idea if you depend on it for your business, and/or are not really experienced in that sort of thing. 

This. I'd go for the $3 a month Exchange Online plans with Microsoft, personally. Excellent service overall.

 

Webhosting with any cheapo hosting provider that fits your requirements. Still cheaper a month than running an FX system.

 

Self hosting e-mail will 90% guaranteed cause spam issues. Your ISP might not even allow you to run a server yourself.

[Levent]

16 minutes ago, masterful68 said:

https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/fx-8370e

 

Yes, I have been around computer for a lot longer than to remember what these were. If you were to read the actual article I listed, you would know why these were not 8 core cpus.

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AMD advertised the CPUs as eight-core chips, but each chip only had four “dual-core modules” with separate execution units; other resources like cache and a single floating point unit (FPU) were shared across the module. AMD says that those modules counted as two cores each, for a total of eight, but customers alleged that since the modules couldn’t actually run separate processes, they only should count as a single core for a total of four cores, not the eight that AMD claimed.

Anyways, I personally would not touch FX series CPUs with a 10 meter stick for any use case of mine. Power expenses alone makes cloud providers much better for your use case.

[Needfuldoer]

Don't cobble together servers out of old junk if you're going to rely on them for your business.

 

If this is going to be public-facing or mission critical, you're better off renting a VPS hosted in a datacenter with guaranteed service agreements.

 

For essential services like email, you're better off with a service like Office 365 or GSuite than trying to roll something out yourself. (Especially email, it's easy to get blacklisted as a spammer if your server gets taken over.)

[LIGISTX]

As others said, self hosting a public facing website is not a great idea unless you are well versed in all things security. 
 

If any exploits are, well, exploited, someone could easily gain access to the box and potentially laterally move across your network unless you implement proper firewall rules and subnet it out away from everything else. This is just the security side of things … oh and don’t forget you will have to be the admin to make sure all things are patched to protect against said security vulnerabilities. 
 

This is really something a cloud provider can do better, for the security reasons, but also you time, and access speed. And as far as email goes, you will likely want business emails backed up with full confidence the backup solution will actually work in the event you need it to...  Not that you can’t set this up yourself, but again, for a business environment there are pretty affordable email services which likely make sense to use over this idea. 
 

Plus, as others said, FX probably isn’t the best bet. Could it work, sure. Should you do it tho? Probably not?