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| ▲ | snerbles 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I too have a crippling dual CPU workstation hoarding habit. Single thread performance is usually worse than enthusiast consumer desktops, and gaming performance will suffer if the game isn't constrained to a single NUMA domain that also happens to have the GPU being used by that game. On the other hand, seeing >1TiB RAM in htop always makes my day happier. |
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| ▲ | t0mas88 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Power usage is the main limitation of using these as a home server. They have a high idle power use. |
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| ▲ | trollbridge an hour ago | parent [-] | | One of the reasons I use these is because it’s cold half the year and it’s not hard to basically use to supplement the heat. |
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| ▲ | bri3d an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Very bad performance per watt and higher maintenance needs. Bad performance per watt generally means a larger formfactor and more noise as well. |
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| ▲ | arprocter 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| On Dell you'll probably be stuck with the original mobo, and their SFFs don't take standard PSUs |
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| ▲ | sevensor an hour ago | parent [-] | | In favor of their SFFs, they get retired 10k at a time, so you might as well pick up a second one for spares. | | |
| ▲ | arprocter 26 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Not a bad call, although you'll probably need to upgrade the PSU to add a GPU (if you can find one small enough to fit the SFF case) |
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| ▲ | 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
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| ▲ | MrVitaliy 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Just performance when compared to current generation hardware. Not significantly worse, but things like DDR4 ram and single thread performance show the signs of aging. Frankly for similar $$$ you can get a new hardware from beelink or equivalent. |
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| ▲ | Forgeties79 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Got it so basically it's one of those things you do if 1) the project interests you and/or 2) you get one dirt cheap and don't have high expectations for certain tasks |
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