[geeks] Are these servers that bad?

[Patrick Finnegan]

Ours with dual-core CPUs and 2x the memory draw 460W idle, just shy of
1200W at max load (a single-core HPL running per system core).

Pat


On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 11:18 PM, Phil Stracchino <phils at caerllewys.net>
wrote:

> On 06/18/14 22:13, Jonathan Katz wrote:
> > Trying to figure something out...
> >
> > I saw this on e-bay, and have seen similar deals over time..
> >
> > http://www.ebay.com/itm/171360350238
> >
> > That seems like a LOT of horsepower for a low price. I was long-gone
> > from Sun by the time these came out, so I don't know about any quality
> > issues or horror stories, but why so cheap for 16 cores and 64G of
> > RAM?
>
> 32 cores, neh?  8x 4-core Opteron?
>
> I'm a little afraid to ask how many kilowatts it draws.  But it'd make a
> great compute server if you could afford the power.
>
>
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