PSU for server board?

[Nekodev]

I'm going to be building a system with the Tyan S7012 motherboard, and I wanted to know what would be a good power supply for it because it has 2 8-pin cpu power connectors. Any suggestions?

Thanks.

[Electronics Wizardy]

reason why you want to use that board? Just saying, they do like to use lots of power

 

For psu, a 400w should be fine for no gpu's, just get a splitter for the cpu power.

[Nekodev]

19 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

reason why you want to use that board? Just saying, they do like to use lots of power

 

For psu, a 400w should be fine for no gpu's, just get a splitter for the cpu power.

Using it because i'm building a server and it was the cheapest thing i could find on ebay with 2 sockets

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, Nekotronics said:

Using it because i'm building a server and it was the cheapest thing i could find on ebay with 2 sockets

Look at this then. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-PowerEdge-C2100-FS12-TY-Barebones-8-Core-2-00GHz-E5504-1x-PSU-No-RAM-or-HDD-/381967368707?hash=item58ef078203:g:3FQAAOSwB-1Y2tkm

 

For not much more you get a simmilar board + cpu's and a case and a psu

[mariushm]

The higher wattage Seasonic power supplies usually have two EPS connectors.

 

Ex.

 

0. 80$ + shipping Seasonic G-Series 650w  (SSR-650RM) (gold efficiency) : https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151118&ignorebbr=1

one fixed 4+4 eps and one modular eps 8

 

1. 80$ + shipping Seasonic M12ii 750w (SS-750AM2) : https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151107

 

1 x 20 / 24P Main Power
1 x EPS12V / ATX12V (8P / 4P)
1 x EPS 12V (8P)
4 x PCI-E (6P / 8P)
8 x SATA
5 x Peripheral (4P)
2 X FDD (4P)

 

3. 110$ + shipping Seasonic X-series (SS-750KM3) 750w (i think the 650w as well if you find it) : https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151087&ignorebbr=1

 

1 x 4-Pin ATX 12V
2 x 8-Pin EPS 12V

 

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this being said... meh, I would't buy that motherboard, the processors you'd use with that motherboard would have low performance compared to todays' processors. 

 

You could buy a ryzen and a motherboard with ECC support in bios and you basically have your server board.

 

[Nekodev]

26 minutes ago, mariushm said:

The higher wattage Seasonic power supplies usually have two EPS connectors.

 

Ex.

 

0. 80$ + shipping Seasonic G-Series 650w  (SSR-650RM) (gold efficiency) : https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151118&ignorebbr=1

one fixed 4+4 eps and one modular eps 8

 

1. 80$ + shipping Seasonic M12ii 750w (SS-750AM2) : https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151107

 

1 x 20 / 24P Main Power
1 x EPS12V / ATX12V (8P / 4P)
1 x EPS 12V (8P)
4 x PCI-E (6P / 8P)
8 x SATA
5 x Peripheral (4P)
2 X FDD (4P)

 

3. 110$ + shipping Seasonic X-series (SS-750KM3) 750w (i think the 650w as well if you find it) : https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151087&ignorebbr=1

 

1 x 4-Pin ATX 12V
2 x 8-Pin EPS 12V

 

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this being said... meh, I would't buy that motherboard, the processors you'd use with that motherboard would have low performance compared to todays' processors. 

 

You could buy a ryzen and a motherboard with ECC support in bios and you basically have your server board.

 

If i had the money, I would. Im spending only about $300 on this total (CPU(s), mobo, case, psu, storage, RAM) Bc i don't need a gpu or an OS

[mariushm]

cpubenchmark lists the x5675 at around 8556 points. so I suppose two of those may give you around 15-16k points.

Ryzen 1600 scores about 12500 points and ryzen 1700x scores about 14500 points

 

Ryzen 1600 has a 65w tdp , the x5675 has 95w tdp and you have two oftem ... so it's 65w vs 180w  tdp so if your server will actually do some work, it will use quite a lot more power.  A Ryzen build will work even with a 400w psu.

 

Note that your processors an the motherboard are triple channel, you only bought 4 sticks of ram. It will  work in dual chanel mode (2 per cpu) but it would have been better to have 6 sticks. 

Not sure, it doesn't say in your listing if the package comes with cpu coolers. If it doesn't, you have to buy two coolers separately and again I'm not sure but unless they come with their own backplate they may need to be screwed directly to the case, which you probably don't have. The mb format is also EEB, which is harder to install in a regular computer case. 

 

So you can buy a ryzen 1600 with cooler for around 220$ and a motherboard for around 100$ an a 4 GB stick of DDR4 at the beginning, and reuse a regular matx or atx case, a regular computer power supply and so on..