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Building a 32-Thread Xeon Monster PC for Less Than the Price of a Haswell-E Core i7
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2016 10:39 am
by FlyingPenguin
Apparently there's a glut of these monster 8 core, 32 thread Xeon CPUs on the market and they can be had for as little as $70 used or $135 new (for a CPU that cost $1000 18 months ago!).
A lot of people are building 4K video editing workstations around them.
Hmmm.... My 1st Gen Core i7 workstation is getting a little long in the tooth. I don't game with it anymore, but I DO use it for transcoding videos quite a lot. I'll have to consider this...
http://www.techspot.com/review/1155-aff ... l-xeon-pc/
Re: Building a 32-Thread Xeon Monster PC for Less Than the Price of a Haswell-E Core i7
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2016 10:50 am
by Losbot
This is perfect. I'm looking to build a VMWare box so I can run a few VMs on it. This would work nicely I think. Slap a bunch of RAM in it and it's good to go.
Nice find.
Re: Building a 32-Thread Xeon Monster PC for Less Than the Price of a Haswell-E Core i7
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2016 11:14 am
by Genom
Hmmm... This is a good weekend project to setup a dedicated unraid box. Thanks!
Re: Building a 32-Thread Xeon Monster PC for Less Than the Price of a Haswell-E Core i7
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2016 11:48 am
by wvjohn
that's pretty neat.
Re: Building a 32-Thread Xeon Monster PC for Less Than the Price of a Haswell-E Core i7
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2016 12:07 pm
by FlyingPenguin
If you seaech on Amazon for that CPU, you also come up with refurb Lenovo S30 workstations. Nice looking machines for the money.
Re: Building a 32-Thread Xeon Monster PC for Less Than the Price of a Haswell-E Core i7
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2016 12:17 pm
by psypher
If anyone actually finds an Asrock EP2C602 under $300 in stock somewhere, let me know
Re: Building a 32-Thread Xeon Monster PC for Less Than the Price of a Haswell-E Core i7
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 4:40 pm
by Losbot
Re: Building a 32-Thread Xeon Monster PC for Less Than the Price of a Haswell-E Core i7
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 11:15 pm
by psypher
Like I said, that's in stock. Newegg is out of stock.
Re: Building a 32-Thread Xeon Monster PC for Less Than the Price of a Haswell-E Core i7
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2016 1:49 am
by Losbot
Sorry. Read it too fast.