Xeon E5645 build?

[myselfolli]

Soooooo I work at the IT service in my company and I've been on a stroll and looked through our old stuff... And I found two Xeon E5645s. And since I can get them for free, I'm wanting to throw together a build for them.

 

Any suggestions? I don't really know how I plan to use them yet, I literally just found them and jumped online... I might try some light gaming on them, since just about anything is better than the craptop I have rn, maybe I'll throw them into a server... Idk yet, suprise me people ^^

[Lurick]

A server could definitely put those CPUs to use. You could put ESXi on the server and then install some VMs, you could use them for a Plex server as well.

[Droidbot]

lucky fucker

they're worth a little bit, being xeon 6c/12t chips, but hf finding a mobo for them

 

[myselfolli]

1 minute ago, Droidbot said:

lucky fucker

they're worth a little bit, being xeon 6c/12t chips, but hf finding a mobo for them

 

I gotta be lucky some time

 

Any recommendations?

[manikyath]

can you get a mobo for them? and preferably also some ram.

 

as for things to do with them:

- a badass home server

- a numbercrunching workstation

- <insert number here> gamers 1 cpu

- ...

 

i wouldnt really pick them out as a super beefy gaming system, mostly because the single core performance is rather lacking, and there's only so much that core count can make up in that sense. that said, it may just be better than a craptop

[Droidbot]

1 minute ago, myselfolli said:

I gotta be lucky some time

 

Any recommendations?

just any dual-cpu 1366 board, some cheap used ecc ram and bam, you're servin' and ballin' on a budget

[myselfolli]

Crunch dem numbers. I can get pretty much whatever is on the internet, as long as it doesn't totally break my bank ^^

 

How much RAM etc. would you shoot for? I know this is difficult since there's no real use case here yet...

[manikyath]

6 minutes ago, myselfolli said:

 

How much RAM etc. would you shoot for? I know this is difficult since there's no real use case here yet...

if you're going the server side of things, as much as economically sensible, if you're going the gaming side of things, 6x2GB? 12x1GB? (since both processors are 3-channel memory -> 6 channels)

[Droidbot]

http://m.ebay.de/itm/Intel-S5520HC-Server-Board-LGA-1366-/201859197026?hash=item2effbee862%3Ag%3ACwAAAOSwCU1YzsbB&_trkparms=pageci%3A1426798b-0fc1-11e7-9304-74dbd180df6d%7Cparentrq%3Afb0f2be115a0a357d6405178fff6ea3d%7Ciid%3A

 

Dual CPU, populated with E5520 (quad 2.2Ghz) x2 and 32GB of RAM. Get it. Upgrade from there with your hexacores. Ez server

[myselfolli]

 

1 minute ago, Droidbot said:

http://m.ebay.de/itm/Intel-S5520HC-Server-Board-LGA-1366-/201859197026?hash=item2effbee862%3Ag%3ACwAAAOSwCU1YzsbB&_trkparms=pageci%3A1426798b-0fc1-11e7-9304-74dbd180df6d%7Cparentrq%3Afb0f2be115a0a357d6405178fff6ea3d%7Ciid%3A

 

Dual CPU, populated with E5520 (quad 2.2Ghz) x2 and 32GB of RAM. Get it. Upgrade from there with your hexacores. Ez server

whoa, it's even the german ebay. Proud of ya.

 

What'd you pay for it? It's an auction ._.

[Droidbot]

Just now, myselfolli said:

 

whoa, it's even the german ebay. Proud of ya.

 

What'd you pay for it? It's an auction ._.

It'll go for like 100 ish EUR, the boards go for like $100USD

 

Just bid when you can, install the app and keep an eye on it. And put the E5520s in your office supply closet

[myselfolli]

4 minutes ago, Droidbot said:

32GB of RAM

It's 3x2GB of RAM. Sadly.

 

But thanks, you've helped me a lot!

[Droidbot]

Just now, myselfolli said:

It's 3x2GB of RAM. Sadly.

 

But thanks, you've helped me a lot!

Fucking Google Translate, lmfao

 

No issue friend, anytime. 

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, myselfolli said:

It's 3x2GB of RAM. Sadly.

 

But thanks, you've helped me a lot!

if you can source another kit of 3x2GB you're set at a comfortable 12GB

[Matt_98]

25 minutes ago, myselfolli said:

It's 3x2GB of RAM. Sadly.

 

But thanks, you've helped me a lot!

 

you can get 12gb ddr3 ecc kits of ebay dirt cheap