[geeks] Dual Xeons - the Saga continues

[Lionel Peterson]

Understood - I have a dell dual-core PE1950 III that sounds like a vacuum
cleaner running, but I can stuff two large SATA drives into it and take the
ram to 64 Gigs quite affordably, and with dual quad-core Xeons w/
hyper-threading I can spin up a ton of small VMs and get decent performance,
but only when SWMBO is out of the house (understandably, if her hobby was as
loud as that server I'd complain also!).

My new boxes are intended to run silently in the garage 'datacenter'...

Lionel

> On Feb 8, 2018, at 8:31 AM, Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I need Cores and RAM primarily as I'm using it to test Docker and/or VM
> configs in prior to pushing it out on a production environment, and also
> serve as a dev platform for working offsite. That's why I went with low end
> 4 core CPUs and a slack handful of RAM.