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fuckwit
5y

Finally got this bad boy.

Time to see what I can do with that :D

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  • 0
    What's your plan?
  • 8
    @asgs u know the usual. Slapping a Gpu in there and taking it to LAN parties. If somebody talking shit he gets DoS'ed :D

    Nah not sure. Think it's gonna be a VM station.
  • 4
    @groxx it depends. There is an initiative where you can get a free server at home. Electricity is paid by the company and you get the heat.
  • 1
    @Codex404 you also get the horrendous constantly on hairdryer noise from the cooling fans... they are not engineered to be quiet
  • 1
    @Mr-Myrk ah only 10k RPM. Love me the sound of a jet ramping up.

    I have some plans to get that thing cool and quiet. Maybe even fanless but let's see about that
  • 2
    I was damn sure this was @Haxk20
  • 0
    Very nice :) Time to run some monero mining :P
  • 3
    @Haxk20

    It's a Dell PowerEdge R720
    2x Xeon E5-2620v2 6C/12T
    64GB ECC DDR3 RAM
    RAID controller should be the PERC H710 but I'm not sure yet
  • 0
    @fuckwit Very nice build :) Fairly similar to the quad chassis we use here at CERN for ATLAS' data center
  • 0
    @Haxk20 If the power is free do it! These machines can offer a great deal of computational power :) Especially if you're able to tune them with a GPU

    Afaik the CPU model mentioned above should deliver approx 1k to 800 H/s, not too bad :)
  • 2
    @Gorlami I paid 120€ for this thing.

    I think its hard to beat that with current gen CPUs.
  • 1
    @TheItalianGuy not sure if you heard, but the new mining algo runs much better on CPUs. My 2c/4t i3 7100 does 1100 H/s on ubuntu :D. (For comparison, a vega 56 only does 1080 H/s while burning a lot more power)
  • 0
    @Haxk20 Cool beans :) Let me know about the results!
  • 0
    @endor Holy cow, this slipped from me :) How come this happens?
  • 0
    @Haxk20 well I've also got two ;)
    But I don't think I will upgrade them any time soon.
  • 0
    @Haxk20 16 GB RAM is very low for a dual socket server. But overall also a very good price for that
  • 1
    @Mr-Myrk the machines I'm talking about are made without mechanical parts and thus quiet.
  • 2
    @TheItalianGuy November 30 update, they moved to a new algo called RandomX.
    Massively shifted the balance towards cpus, especially large ones with a lot of cache (so basically any AMD cpu, with 3rd gen being the absolute best). Fast, low-latency ram is also a factor now.

    @Haxk20 Monero, the new algo is called RandomX (look it up on reddit). I reccommend using XMRig if you wanna give it a shot.
  • 0
    That is a sexy piece of hardware
  • 2
    @Haxk20 is it paying the electricity bill? My last ethereum attempt a a few weeks ago failed miserably m
  • 1
    @Haxk20 TDP =/= power consumption
  • 0
    @Haxk20 nice! About the new cpus: don't forget that they cost money in the first place, it's gonna take a while to earn that back in the first place.
    But if you were going to buy them anyway to actually use them, profitable mining is a great way to make the machine pay for itself even faster.
  • 0
    Where are you shopping this cheap servers?
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