Recent content by Rainer

Depends on how you define "buyer's remorse," really. Some people probably wouldn't even call it that if you find out only months later that there might have been a product with better bang for the buck. I just built a Xeon E3-1200V3 system in order to retire an Opteron 6128 purchased in 2011...

This is warranted. Unfortunately I didn't really fully appreciate how shitty Sony's glass is, before I bought my NEX-7. I think the litmus test for equipment is: What would you do if the $ITEM got lost or stolen? In the case of the Sony NEX-7, I would most certainly buy a different camera...

135 W :eek: With a SAS controller, HD backplane, Soundcard and 4 Harddisks, it really adds up :hmm:

It does have HD graphics. If you can exchange the mobo, you're probably settled, although I don't know the significance of "Intel® Clear Video HD Technology" missing from your Celeron, because that technology supposedly "delivers High Definition quality playback" which you probably want. Maybe...

Well, there's a BIOS menu titled "Turbo Boost Technology" in which you can set "Turbo Mode" to [Disabled], which I did. It's very well possible that it doesn't have any effect, but there's no way for me to tell. If you improved your little program so that it reports clock speed as well, we...

This is a Xeon E3-1265LV2, Performance Setting "CPU always 100%", and Turbo Mode disabled in BIOS.

It is interesting how right Idontcare is :) The Power Management really distorts the results, as the scaling factor is more or less all over the place: Now two test runs with Power Managment set to "CPU always 100%" CPU is an Opteron 6128.

Just found these when googling for a new board in the pipeline whose name I happened to know :P X10SLM+-F X10SLM-F X10SLM+-LN4F X10SLL-F X10SLH-F X10SLA-F X10SL7-F Sorry, I don't know anything that's not evident from the pictures, or can be deduced from the product names.

There's one notable exception that may or may not be of interest, the Xeon E3-1220L v2 which uses the familiar FCLGA1155 socket, for which you can choose from a number of boards. Supermicro has like half a dozen motherboards with such a processor installed, to...

I believe there's something called "low end server market" where cost matters and a Xeon would be considered overkill, but nonetheless customers won't touch anything without ECC. There are also Celerons and even Atoms with ECC, presumably for these people. An i7 with ECC in LGA1155 does exist...

You are correct, I didn't notice that the non-ECC Ivy i3 processors have different sockets. My bad. :$

In case you didn't know ark.intel.com, here's a place to start. :) No they don't.

Yes, that's what they say. Allegedly, a port to Xeon Phi might entail just adding a couple of lines, and be done within minutes. It may or may not be relevant that Xeon Phi runs only under two operating systems: Linux, and Linux. If that's acceptable, it might be worth investing a couple hours...

Case in point, the Supermicro 4042G-72RF4 quad Opteron barebone will set you back some $2,200. What you then need is RAM, CPUs, Harddisks, that's it. A configuration similar to that of the quad Opteron Dell machine will comfortably stay below $9,000. Considering that it has an LSI 2208 SAS...