Raise of hands, do anyone if you have a daily driver that contains server-class technology?

[Dredgy]

Xeon, 128GB ECC memory DDR3 and a quadro. Upgraded from a 4930K and 64Gb consumer memory.

 

UPS as well. and just ordered enterprise archive drives.

[porina]

36 minutes ago, Aleksiandrovich said:

Knew what specifically like what benefits does the dual socket have other than the potential for more cores over two CPUs?

I found I care less for OC than I thought, and I value stability in my main use system. I've had data corruption from an occasional ram issue. I could pass memtest as long as you like, but under 24/7 compute loads I was detecting errors between one a week and one a month. It seems to have been resolved with different ram, but ECC could have negated that from the start. I do need the faster bandwidth from OC ram, which could be somewhat offset by quad channel standard ram.

 

If I were to build myself a new rig today, I'd say to hell with the budget and probably end up with some dual Xeons and a ton of ECC ram. I don't actually need ram quantity, but dual rank modules do give a measurable significant performance boost over single rank. On non-ECC DDR4, 4GB modules are all single rank. I'd probably have to go 8GB modules to get dual rank, thus 8x8=64GB. Alternatively 16x4 would guarantee that too. Arguably I don't need the multi-socket power either, but I only tend to replace my main system every 4 years so would like to future resist somewhat. As my current main system was build about 1.5 years ago, my next one would be due around 2.5 years time. Hopefully the X99 (and server equivalent) successor will be out by then.

[t895]

My Xeon E3 1230 v2, it's beautiful and I don't plan on upgrading for probably another 5-6 years