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

[Lionel Peterson]

The T30 server system is based on an Intel C236 chipset, a special chipset
that is classified as 'workstation' - neither desktop nor server.

A brief review of a Tom's Hardware article about the chipset leads me to
believe it has a shorter list of features than a true server chipset, making
it more like a desktop chipset, but it undergoes additional stability tests
and has a longer planned product life than a typical desktop chipset.

Now that I've gotten familiar with mine, I'm going to order some more RAM - 8
Gigs, taking the box to 16 Gig total is only $92 from provantage, which to me
seems like a fair price - I'd like cheaper, but $11/Gig for DDR4 ECC seems
fair.

The only thing I'd like would be a blank panel to cover the slim ODD in my
storage T30, to install 4x SATA drives I had to disconnect the ODD, so I now
have a 'dead' (unpowered, unconnected) DVD drive on the box, I'd prefer to
remove it and fill-in the hole, but Dell doesn't sell that little piece of
plastic by itself... no big deal, but I'd prefer not to have dead hardware
installed in the box.

Lionel

> On Feb 14, 2018, at 5:04 AM, Michael-John Turner <mj at mjturner.net> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 01:11:52PM +0000, Mark Benson wrote:
>> 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.
>
> They're /broadly/ equivalent to the same generation/specification
non-Extreme i7. So, for example, an E3-1240v3 is /roughly/ equivalent in
performance and specification to an i7-4770K. Both are 4C/8T, 3.4Ghz base
clock although the i7 can turbo to 3.9 and the Xeon to 3.8. In this case, the
Xeon doesn't have an integrated GPU, wherease the i7 does. So, /broadly/
equivalent :)
>
> i7s don't support ECC RAM though (E3 Xeons support both ECC and non-ECC
RAM).
>
> Cheers, MJ
> --
> Michael-John Turner * mj at mjturner.net * http://mjturner.net/
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