Finally got this bad boy.

Time to see what I can do with that :D

What's your plan?

@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.

@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.

@Codex404 you also get the horrendous constantly on hairdryer noise from the cooling fans... they are not engineered to be quiet

@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

I was damn sure this was @Haxk20

Very nice :) Time to run some monero mining :P

@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

@fuckwit Very nice build :) Fairly similar to the quad chassis we use here at CERN for ATLAS' data center

@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 :)

@Gorlami I paid 120€ for this thing.

I think its hard to beat that with current gen CPUs.

@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)

@Haxk20 Cool beans :) Let me know about the results!

@endor Holy cow, this slipped from me :) How come this happens?

@Haxk20 well I've also got two ;)
But I don't think I will upgrade them any time soon.

@Haxk20 16 GB RAM is very low for a dual socket server. But overall also a very good price for that

@Mr-Myrk the machines I'm talking about are made without mechanical parts and thus quiet.

@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.

That is a sexy piece of hardware

@Haxk20 is it paying the electricity bill? My last ethereum attempt a a few weeks ago failed miserably m

@Haxk20 TDP =/= power consumption

@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.

Where are you shopping this cheap servers?