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Quandary: gotta have a PC at the workbench but what kind of setup is best?
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rdl:
What do you guys think of this? I'm trying to resist, mainly because I don't really need it...

https://www.newegg.com/gigabyte-gb-bri3-10110/p/N82E16856164150
bd139:

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--- Quote from: bd139 on July 01, 2021, 10:15:52 pm ---While people love Xeon class workstations running they are extremely expensive to keep alive, drink a hell of a lot of power and make a lot of noise. To run a basic dual xeon, just the electricity bill will buy you the Lenovo box I mentioned above once a year.

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Those old dual Xeon platforms aren't great for 24/7 operation unless warming up the room is a welcome side effect. But for occasional operation as a test PC, they're often available for really cheap which is what matters in that case.

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I wouldn’t bother myself. The newer desktops gave about the same amount of aggregate whack as the older cheaper xeons for the same price.
Johnny10:
I have 4 HP Z800 series machines in my lab.
Z800's Z820 Z840

They are big, heavy and are very picky about memory.
Very capable machines that will handle all sorts of storage SAS or SATA and built in RAID.

I only hate when I have to move them or open them up to change cards.
I run my GPIB through one of them.

They are cheap, these one time expensive Computers like Server computers are Cheap.
LGA 1366 CPUs are 20 dollars and under.
Built to last forever.

Z800 series are Dual CPU machines.
Look for low wattage CPU's and they won't heat up the room too much.
And they are quiet.




David Hess:

--- Quote from: bd139 on July 02, 2021, 09:13:57 am ---I wouldn’t bother myself. The newer desktops gave about the same amount of aggregate whack as the older cheaper xeons for the same price.
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Xeons, and the AMD Threadripper and EPYC, have the virtue of more PCIe lanes to support more expansion slots.  When I built my Ryzen workstation last year, I had to specifically look to find a motherboard with a x8/x8/x4 PCIe slot arrangement.
bd139:
I don’t think I’ve used any more than an i3’s worth of PCIe recently even on workstation builds. Only thing is in servers with lots of DAS enterprise SSDs which is a notable and large exception to what a workstation usually consists of as they usually cost house sized amounts of money.

If you need processing it’s waaaay cheaper to rent it from Amazon if you can as you’re paying by the minute.

My main workstation is a 16gb laptop. Anything that doesn’t fit gets sent to Amazon.
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