Things you recently bought or got

[MohammedQ8]

Bought them yesterday.

 

[RandomUser]

EDIT: Also, found 2x working 870w PSUs for that server I bought for only $30, so got those ordered as well. At this point, just need to pickup some ECC RAM and heatsinks and I should have everything I need to fuck around with the thing

Is it a Xeon rig?

 

[Shadow#1]

https://limitedrungames.com/product...-the-seven-sirens?_pos=2&_sid=87028afc3&_ss=r

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

Is it a Xeon rig?

Yeah, won an auction for a Dell Poweredge R710 chassis and motherboard for $20. Putting 2x Xeon x5680's in it, the 94GB of RAM, 2x 870w PSUs, and then an undetermined number of HDDs at some point. Mostly going to use it to fuck around with VMs and server grade hardware for funsies.

 

[leon315]

I forgot to add the most important part in any PC.

mohammed, that's a 1600w PS, what kind of pc drains such power?

 

[MohammedQ8]

I dont know how much power I need so I bought the maximum power supply to prevent any future issues.

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Also I live with parents so I dont pay for rent, food and bad .... and it is temporary so let me live a little bit hehe

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After all this intel released gen 10 that requires new motherboard ..... all the money I spent is a waste not just because of psu

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To upgrade the motherboard means that I have to buy whole new system again

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I wish I knew that they will release new types of motherboards

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

I dont know how much power I need so I bought the maximum power supply to prevent any future issues.

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Also I live with parents so I dont pay for rent, food and bad .... and it is temporary so let me live a little bit hehe

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After all this intel released gen 10 that requires new motherboard ..... all the money I spent is a waste not just because of psu

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To upgrade the motherboard means that I have to buy whole new system again

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I wish I knew that they will release new types of motherboards

You definitely wasted money on the PSU, you could've gotten away with 800W and still had room left over for extra things.

Also, doesn't matter that Intel released 10th series because Intel hasn't really changed architecture since 2015 so there's little performance difference and it'd be a massive waste of money if you have anything released from the last few years from Intel.

Also, you don't need to "buy the whole new system again", you'd just need the new CPU and motherboard. Everything else can be re-used.

Also, this is not a chatroom, stop multiposting. Make a single post and type your entire post there. If you need to add something, edit it, don't make another post.

 

[Chary]

I ordered delivery from this adorable Japanese bakery. Haven't been able to go there locally, so I saw it could be brought to my house. Got other things like a milk loaf and castella cake, but this was the best part.

 

[leon315]

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I ordered delivery from this adorable Japanese bakery. Haven't been able to go there locally, so I saw it could be brought to my house. Got other things like a milk loaf and castella cake, but this was the best part.

OH MAH GAWD!
I'M LOST! So cruel, why show this to me during my fasting days?

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

Also nabbed a Dell PowerEdge R710 server, or at least the chassis and (I assume) the motherboard for it for a whopping $20. Not 100% sure what I'll do with it, but I'll probably try and chuck 2x Xeon x5690's 6c/12t CPUs in it for a total 12c/24t @ 3.73ghz, maybe chuck around 80GB of RAM in it (which I found a kit of ECC DDR3 for only $80), and then a couple of the Dell 700w PSUs that normally come with it. Be like maybe $200-$250 total for everything, give or take, which for a...kinda? recent (ie ~10 year old ), mostly stacked server is really decent.

EDIT: Decided to nab 2x Xeon x5680's in it, since they were substantially cheaper for slightly lower performance. $80 for two of them, as opposed to $130 for two x5690s. Definitely not worth the extra $50 for slightly higher clock speeds.

So the server chassis showed up today, everything looks in good condition, no bent pins in the CPU sockets, everything looks pretty clean, they even left the two PCIe risers in it But they pulled the chassis fans and the HDD trays for whatever reason

So ordered the rest of the parts I needed to finish it up, 5x chassis fans for it, 4x HDD trays, 2x heatsinks for the CPUs.

All in all I've spent $40 for the chassis, $80 for 2x Xeon 5680s, $80 for 96GB of DDR3, and $60 for the above chassis fans and HDDs trays and heatsinks for a total of $260 for a 12c/24t, 96GB DDR3 server. Not too bad.


EDIT: I have no impulse control and just bought 4x 2TB SAS drives for $20 each. New old stock HGST drives apparently, which if true will be an excellent deal and if not, well, whatever, 8TBs worth of used HDDs for $80 isn't too bad.

 

[MrCokeacola]

8bitdo m30 for the Genny. Testing it with some Streets of Rage 2.

 

[Chary]

I imported a ton of fancy white chocolate from britain. WORTH IT!

 

[Alexander1970]

..more "Power" for the external WD HDD:

 

[MohammedQ8]

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I imported a ton of fancy white chocolate from britain. WORTH IT!

where did you order them from ? link us.

 

[Chary]

where did you order them from ? link us.

My bad; certainly, here it is! https://www.highlandchocolatier.com/

 

[Amadren]

Bought a Nintendo Switch animal crossing edition (the European one, so it also includes the game). Bought it because it was only 250€, brand new, sealed.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

So the server chassis showed up today, everything looks in good condition, no bent pins in the CPU sockets, everything looks pretty clean, they even left the two PCIe risers in it But they pulled the chassis fans and the HDD trays for whatever reason

So ordered the rest of the parts I needed to finish it up, 5x chassis fans for it, 4x HDD trays, 2x heatsinks for the CPUs.

All in all I've spent $40 for the chassis, $80 for 2x Xeon 5680s, $80 for 96GB of DDR3, and $60 for the above chassis fans and HDDs trays and heatsinks for a total of $260 for a 12c/24t, 96GB DDR3 server. Not too bad.


EDIT: I have no impulse control and just bought 4x 2TB SAS drives for $20 each. New old stock HGST drives apparently, which if true will be an excellent deal and if not, well, whatever, 8TBs worth of used HDDs for $80 isn't too bad.

Welp, I now see why this server was $20

I didn't notice beforehand when I got it cuz it was slightly obscured by the PSU bracket, but apparently whoever stripped this thing down decided to tear both of the soldered, proprietary power supply connectors from the motherboard for...some reason??? They also took the CPU retention brackets off for no reason, and even stole the CR2032 CMOS battery. The CPU retention brackets weren't the biggest deal, since I could just buy a cheapo/broken LGA1366 motherboard and steal those, but the damn PSU connectors aren't something you can just buy off ebay or Aliexpress...

SO. I just bought a replacement motherboard for $40, because god damn it I already have everything else coming.

 

[RandomUser]

Yeah, won an auction for a Dell Poweredge R710 chassis and motherboard for $20. Putting 2x Xeon x5680's in it, the 94GB of RAM, 2x 870w PSUs, and then an undetermined number of HDDs at some point. Mostly going to use it to fuck around with VMs and server grade hardware for funsies.

You're going to have a lot of fun with that rig. Congratulation. You should be able to easily boot your entire fully featured OS in RAM.
EDIT:
Reading your last post, ouch. Yes, the power supply isn't exactly proprietary, and at the same time, it is. Some of the PSU itself doesn't have wires on them, at least mine doesn't and it quite thin and long The PSU itself is about 1400 to 1500 watts per PSU. It is the case itself that has the wiring to connect the HDD motherboard, etc.

 

[ladypoodle]

Bought these as a late birthday present for myself

Spoiler

 

[dragonblood9999]

How much different in P5R to P5?

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