I saw a few on sale a while ago on ebay for about $200 as a mobo CPU combo which isn't terrible but you lose a lot of what makes it good (expandability) in a 1U server + riser. In that case there are a lot of potentially better options for 24/7 use in a homelab from N100 to the newer AMD/intel mobile stuff in mini PC's that can be had fairly inexpensive that use a lot less power (and yes I know it's not server hardware). In a 2/4U chassis I think this would be more viable so you could take advantage of more of those PCIE slots.
Please don’t recommend these old Xeon’s for 24/7 powered home lab servers. A intel n100 has more power than this processor and will run 20x more efficient. N100 mini pc’s go for less than 150$ and you will save 300$ on your electric bill a year compared to this.
n100 's are not server class hardware, not designed to run 24/7, dont even have ecc. and he could swap that cpu out for a 18 or 20 core. only use about 200w. by the way it only has 2 nics, the third is ipmi for remote managment
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I saw a few on sale a while ago on ebay for about $200 as a mobo CPU combo which isn't terrible but you lose a lot of what makes it good (expandability) in a 1U server + riser. In that case there are a lot of potentially better options for 24/7 use in a homelab from N100 to the newer AMD/intel mobile stuff in mini PC's that can be had fairly inexpensive that use a lot less power (and yes I know it's not server hardware). In a 2/4U chassis I think this would be more viable so you could take advantage of more of those PCIE slots.
Thanks for the video!
You're welcome! Simon
Awesome Video, keep them coming. This isn't that old of a unit, i see lots of home labber's running Dell 2950's or Dell R610's still.
as far a servers go its a little older but I upgraded mine its a beast 48 cores and 512 gb of ram
@@core-computinglab HAH! Nice Im running dual 4214 cpus & 512gigs ram.
Please don’t recommend these old Xeon’s for 24/7 powered home lab servers. A intel n100 has more power than this processor and will run 20x more efficient. N100 mini pc’s go for less than 150$ and you will save 300$ on your electric bill a year compared to this.
I know the power usage is more but I don't run them 24 7 I will make an update with the reason when to use xeons and when the N100 is best suited
@bobbuilder6571 pcie pass through
n100 's are not server class hardware, not designed to run 24/7, dont even have ecc. and he could swap that cpu out for a 18 or 20 core. only use about 200w. by the way it only has 2 nics, the third is ipmi for remote managment
What's your use case for Rackintosh ?
Save space ! there is no real reason other than to save space and learn
This is not latest-gen
Well it's newer than most of the systems I run