home sever

[m2234323]

how do I find cheep used sever to set up a test system to get to know how to to set up up a home data  center for experiments

[FirstArmada]

Ebay, best deals on used server stuff.

[m2234323]

8 minutes ago, FirstArmada said:

Ebay, best deals on used server stuff.

how to decide which one  to get

[jkalousek]

27 minutes ago, m2234323 said:

how to decide which one  to get

Actually I would recommend to look at some YT channels, there all some that recommends old HW and explains which servers/models are good and what are the differences. It's pretty much all DELL/IBM.

 

I remember that recently (14 days) I watched:

 

[m2234323]

22 hours ago, jkalousek said:

Actually I would recommend to look at some YT channels, there all some that recommends old HW and explains which servers/models are good and what are the differences. It's pretty much all DELL/IBM.

 

I remember that recently (14 days) I watched:

 

is this the one IBM System x3650 7979 8 core E5420 Xeon 2.5GHz Dual Quad Core 24 GB RAM Server    

[jkalousek]

1 hour ago, m2234323 said:

is this the one IBM System x3650 7979 8 core E5420 Xeon 2.5GHz Dual Quad Core 24 GB RAM Server    

Yes it's look like that's the one. But please make some more research, maybe find and read manual, so you have little bit more information about it. I looked it up on Ebay and it's really cheap. It should bee good home lab server for the money. Also read the Ebay listing carefully, there are lot of variants with/without RAM/HDD etc.

[m2234323]

2 minutes ago, jkalousek said:

Yes it's look like that's the one. But please make some more research, maybe find and read manual, so you have little bit more information about it. I looked it up on Ebay and it's really cheap. It should bee good home lab server for the money. Also read the Ebay listing carefully, there are lot of variants with/without RAM/HDD etc.

can they take gpu  to be use like a  8 (or is it 10?) Gamers, 1 CPU - Taking it to the Next Level!

 computer  for 1 or 3 gamer  for a famly

 

[jkalousek]

19 minutes ago, m2234323 said:

can they take gpu  to be use like a  8 (or is it 10?) Gamers, 1 CPU - Taking it to the Next Level!

 computer  for 1 or 3 gamer  for a famly

 

Wow, that is little bit different question

This server has some (I thing 2) PCI-E 8x slots (please don't quote me on that) so i don't thing that you could put GPU in (i know there are adapters) but I have no idea how compatible could this be and even if it somehow worked, this is not right machine for the job, you are looking for gaming rig that would act like server, not for server that would act as gaming rig.

I meant this server as home lab (file sharing, plex, websites, maybe game server etc.) and to get know servers in general. For gaming someone else must contribute because gaming is really not my field at all.

[Electronics Wizardy]

3 minutes ago, jkalousek said:

Wow, that is little bit different question

This server has some (I thing 2) PCI-E 8x slots (please don't quote me on that) so i don't thing that you could put GPU in (i know there are adapters) but I have no idea how compatible could this be and even if it somehow worked, this is not right machine for the job, you are looking for gaming rig that would act like server, not for server that would act as gaming rig.

I meant this server as home lab (file sharing, plex, websites, maybe game server etc.) and to get know servers in general. For gaming someone else must contribute because gaming is really not my field at all.

No you can't. It doesn't support vt-d

[Electronics Wizardy]

On 7/15/2016 at 11:57 AM, m2234323 said:

how to decide which one  to get

Probably a dell r710/dl 380 g6. Id stay away from that ibm server as they pull lots of power and don't support newer features like vt-d.

[m2234323]

2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

No you can't. It doesn't support vt-d

what all can it do about running vm l

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, m2234323 said:

what all can it do about running vm l

You can run vms, you just can't do pcie passthrough.

[maxtch]

16 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

You can run vms, you just can't do pcie passthrough.

If you need PCIe passthrough use Sandy Bridge C2 chips. Some of the E5-2670 and E5-2680 that is ridiculously cheap recently support that.