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It’s still a Yes.
LGA 3647 was for Skylake and Cascade Lake, and the Xeon Gold 6254 was part of the latter generation. Make no mistake, 18 cores is nothing to shake a stick at, but who’d turn down more? Cascade Lake went up to 56 cores per socket, but those are 400W parts, which is a bit spicy…
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Bitten Again
Every now and then I get an idea. It’s typically not an original idea, in that commercial products to do what I’m trying to do already exist, but it’s an idea nonetheless. I like to think that knowing how those commercial products are built may come in handy for one reason or another. The physical…
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Yes.
Some time ago I asked if a server could be my workstation and, shortly after that, I answered “no.” My opinion has recently changed. My previous experiment involved an Ivy Bridge EP part with DDR3 memory. Numerous computers have spoiled me over the years when it comes to performance, even the low-power laptop parts, but…
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Red to Green
I’ve been an AMD GPU user for a decent amount of time. Back in the day I used an ATI All-In-Wonder card in my Windows XP MCE PC, and kept with that pattern until it stopped being supported. There were some GeForce cards in there, but I was on Team Red for the most part.…
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No.
To answer the question posed by my last post: no. A server cannot be my main workstation. Or, at least, that server can’t be my main workstation. The one I’m still using — 3900X with 64GB of DDR4-3200 — is running perfectly, but most importantly, it’s running fast. From a first-hand usage perspective, the Ryzen wrecks the…
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The Itch
In one of my previous posts I described my main machine. It’s the best workstation I’ve ever built for myself, providing the best of all possible worlds: it’s quiet under normal utilization, decently quick during video encodes, provides great gaming performance, and runs anything I can throw at it. What’s unique about this machine is…
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Well that was quick
The replacement RAM arrived today and I remembered one of the reasons I didn’t particularly enjoy building the server in the case I chose, but ultimately I did replace the modules, so the server’s now running on 128GB of ECC memory. The previous 32GB modules are sitting in their packages, and I plan on testing…
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Minor Cleanup
I took the liberty of transferring some roles between VMs and have ended up with a slightly more streamlined homelab. Now that the 8GB Pi 4B is serving as the primary Pi-Hole instance I was able to get rid of one of the LXC containers. I’ve also managed to get rid of the Gitlab server,…