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[Maitai]

Hewwo! n.n I'm new to servers 'n stuff and I was looking at buying a refurbished HP z820 like in link provided: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA5YV5S48689&cm_re=hp_z820-_-1VK-001E-0BMR6-_-Product

 

Does anyone have any knowledge about this?I've been looking around the 'net for reviews 'n stuff. I want to host a little minecraft server, ark, 7 days to die and other small things. Can this support 2 cpus and it just comes with one? Should I purchase some hyper 212 evos to cool it? Thanks for any help.

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

Your gonna need a second cooler and potientaly more ram to use a second cpu, but you probably don't need a second cpu now.

 

You need the custom hp coolers in there.

 

Id run vms on it, look into a hypervisor like esxi or proxmox.

 

 

[Windows7ge]

For your use case I can say you'll find better deals on Ebay. There are used Supermicro servers that go for 200, 300, 400 and come with most of the components or barebones where you put your own CPU's, memory, and HDDs in.

[Maitai]

4 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Your gonna need a second cooler and potientaly more ram to use a second cpu, but you probably don't need a second cpu now.

 

You need the custom hp coolers in there.

 

Id run vms on it, look into a hypervisor like esxi or proxmox.

 

 

I saw a video on youtube where a guy put the hyper 212 evo on the processors. Is it a cooling thing or a proprietary connector kind of thing?

[Electronics Wizardy]

5 minutes ago, Maitai said:

I saw a video on youtube where a guy put the hyper 212 evo on the processors. Is it a cooling thing or a proprietary connector kind of thing?

there is normally a airflow guide that makes it so you have to use your own coolers. This also help cooling ram.

[Maitai]

7 minutes ago, Windows7ge said:

For your use case I can say you'll find better deals on Ebay. There are used Supermicro servers that go for 200, 300, 400 and come with most of the components or barebones where you put your own CPU's, memory, and HDDs in.

Could you link me to what you're talking about?  thanks

[Electronics Wizardy]

3 minutes ago, Maitai said:

Could you link me to what you're talking about?  thanks

something like this https://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-R720-12-Core-Server-2x-E5-2620-2-0GHz-16GB-8-2-5in-RPS/202426204117?hash=item2f218abfd5:g:2Q0AAOSwBQ9bpS1a:rk:7:pf:1&amp;frcectupt=true&amp;autorefresh=true

 

or really for what your doing, you can get a much slower system like this one.

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-PowerEdge-T20-Xeon-E3-1225-v3-3-2GHz-256-SSD-12-GB-RAM-WINDOWS-10-PRO/202466550175?hash=item2f23f2619f:g:qAIAAOSwYLRbnuIQ:rk:2:pf:1&amp;frcectupt=true

[AbsoluteFool]

2 hours ago, Maitai said:

Hewwo! n.n I'm new to servers 'n stuff and I was looking at buying a refurbished HP z820 like in link provided: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA5YV5S48689&cm_re=hp_z820-_-1VK-001E-0BMR6-_-Product

 

Does anyone have any knowledge about this?I've been looking around the 'net for reviews 'n stuff. I want to host a little minecraft server, ark, 7 days to die and other small things. Can this support 2 cpus and it just comes with one? Should I purchase some hyper 212 evos to cool it? Thanks for any help.

 

I can say quickly that this will be "overkill" for a "little" minecraft server. How many people are you looking to have on your server?

 

Anyways. HP have mixed feeling from customers. However alot of those can be based of the wrong reasons. 

 

If it was my system i'd go with something like 4 core 3+Ghz and around 32GB RAM just to have the ability to grow if it's needed. Like the Dell PowerEdge T20 that Electronic linked above.

[NelizMastr]

If you want something semi-quiet, compact and easy to work on, also consider the lower end HP servers. The Microserver G8 is a great starting point. The only downside is that it's limited to 16GB of RAM. 

 

As I work primarily with HP hardware, I can only vouch for them. Tower models worth looking at:

 

- ML110 G7    (Sandy Bridge 1155, 4x DDR3 ECC UDIMM, SATA drives)

- ML150 G6   (Nehalem Xeon E55xx, dual socket, 12x DDR3 ECC Reg, can support SAS if backplane and card installed)

- ML310e G8 (Sandy Bridge 1155, 4x DDR3 ECC UDIMM, SATA/SAS support)

- ML350 G6   (Nehalem Xeon E55xx and 56xx, dual socket, 18x DDR3 ECC Reg, SATA/SAS support)

[Maitai]

3 hours ago, AbsoluteFool said:

I can say quickly that this will be "overkill" for a "little" minecraft server. How many people are you looking to have on your server?

 

Anyways. HP have mixed feeling from customers. However alot of those can be based of the wrong reasons. 

 

If it was my system i'd go with something like 4 core 3+Ghz and around 32GB RAM just to have the ability to grow if it's needed. Like the Dell PowerEdge T20 that Electronic linked above.

Like sevtech or pixelmon or stoneblock for maybe 20 people tops.

[kevdagoat]

On 10/24/2018 at 2:46 PM, Maitai said:

maybe 20 people tops.

Get a cheap i3-i5 combo and a gtx1060 and you’ll be fine.

 

LTT’s Budget VR setup should work a treat.

 

Unless you are planning to host a modded server there is no point using a dual socket Xeon prebuilt.

 

I even managed to get 5 people connected to a core2duo!