[geeks] Amazing! Tales from the Dell T30 trenches...

[Mark Benson]

The PCI-e x16 slot looks to be full 16x Gen 3.0 which is good to tak
anything you'd care to throw at it graphics wise (null in your case but
handy for workstation folks).

I dunno how the E3-12xxvx CPUs stack up against desktop's equivalent
models. Our production server is running on an E3-1230v3 and seems to hold
it's own in a small business LAMP server setup.

I might look into picking one up, if I can get the Xeon version for a good
price, as a workstation to replace my aging Dell Precision 390. I have a
hardly used Radeon 5770 Mac graphics card that (to my total lack of
surprise) works in a PC too. Might wedge that in too if it'll play ball.

It's stunning what you can get at these price points from Dell/HP these
days, especially if you opt for No OS.

On 12 Feb 2018 12:45, "Lionel Peterson" <lionel4287 at gmail.com> wrote:

> See notes in-line below
>
> Lionel
>
> > On Feb 12, 2018, at 2:18 AM, Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> <snip>
> >
> > As for lack of VGA, as you've found, it can be pulled from any of those
> > three ports via an adaptor so I guess they figured people will buy an
> > adaptor if they need it.
>
> It was just surprising to sit there holding my KVM leads in one hand and
> staring at the server back wondering where the VGA port went! A $10 adapter
> solved that problem, and will wind up in my PC toolbox - these machines
> will
> run headless once configured, accessed either through Remote Desktop or
> Intel
> AMT 11.0 management interface.
>
> > The PCI-e thing is a bummer, but I guess it's largely to stop it
> competing
> > with Dell's midrange Precision workstation offerings.
>
> The PCI-E thing isn't as bad as initially described - it has three PCI-E
> 3.0
> ports, one a physical 16x slot, with all 16 channels implemented, one 8x
> slot
> with only 4 channels implemented, and and one 4x slot with all 4 channels
> implemented, but the power for each slot is limited to 25W.
>
> There is also a regular old PCI slot.
>
> > All-in-all it sounds like a tidy machine, though.
>
> Quite happy with it - I forgot to mention the size - it's very similar in
> size
> to an Ultra 10.
>
> Lionel
>
> >> On 12 Feb 2018 00:02, "Lionel Peterson" <lionel4287 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello all,
> >>
> >> So last week I got my new Dell T30 server - and I quite like it so far -
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