More hardware upgrades coming tomorrow.
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More hardware upgrades coming tomorrow.
Lab bench machine has 128GB of RDIMM right now and I have 256GB of LRDIMM removed from the VM server now available.
And the existing CPUs (Xeon 5320 and 4310) in the VM server and lab bench workstation are being replaced with these.
Didn't get all the old thermal material off (they're recycled, obviously) but should be close enough
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And the existing CPUs (Xeon 5320 and 4310) in the VM server and lab bench workstation are being replaced with these.
Didn't get all the old thermal material off (they're recycled, obviously) but should be close enough
So at the end of this I should have 512GB and an 8362 in the VM server, and 256GB and an 8362 in the lab bench box (making both significantly more powerful than my office workstation).
And I'll have 128GB of DDR4 RDIMMs, a Xeon 4310, and a Xeon 5320 sitting around unused.
Most of the rest of my infrastructure is Skylake and Cascade Lake (LGA 3647) based so I won't be able to hand-me-down a LGA 4189 CPU into them without a motherboard swap which would be quite the expense.
But... the microscope bench box right now has a Haswell i5 and was next in line for replacement.
So maybe what I should do is buy a new Ice Lake server motherboard (and maybe a beefier PSU), put the 128GB DDR4 and the 5320 into it, move the SSD from the microscope bench box into it, and scrap the Haswell parts.
That will leave me with a Xeon 4310 I can't think of any practical use for, maybe I'll set up a giveaway if somebody can put it to use?
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More hardware upgrades coming tomorrow.
Lab bench machine has 128GB of RDIMM right now and I have 256GB of LRDIMM removed from the VM server now available.
@azonenberg in THIS economy?
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@azonenberg in THIS economy?
@platymew This wouldn't be happening if I had actually paid for the RAM lol.
It fell into my lap from somebody decommissioning hardware.
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@platymew This wouldn't be happening if I had actually paid for the RAM lol.
It fell into my lap from somebody decommissioning hardware.
@azonenberg it's very pleasant, to have friends, indeed! 🥰
It's ridiculous, how the SODIMMs in my mini PC have become worth more than the barebone itself. I've paid 160-ish, and now my RAM alone is worth over 700!
The 2025 black Friday really seems to have been the last "reasonable" date, to get a "good deal". I've bought my Radeon 9060XT/16G, back then - even with PayPal financing - i'm still getting away, paying less, compared to current prices.
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@azonenberg it's very pleasant, to have friends, indeed! 🥰
It's ridiculous, how the SODIMMs in my mini PC have become worth more than the barebone itself. I've paid 160-ish, and now my RAM alone is worth over 700!
The 2025 black Friday really seems to have been the last "reasonable" date, to get a "good deal". I've bought my Radeon 9060XT/16G, back then - even with PayPal financing - i'm still getting away, paying less, compared to current prices.
@platymew The 512GB of DDR4 RDIMM I just put in my VM server would be just shy of $10K at today's prices.
I wasn't gonna say no to somebody offering it for free, lol.
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@platymew The 512GB of DDR4 RDIMM I just put in my VM server would be just shy of $10K at today's prices.
I wasn't gonna say no to somebody offering it for free, lol.
@azonenberg hahahaa, someone got upgraded to "good" friend status
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@azonenberg hahahaa, someone got upgraded to "good" friend status
@platymew I also got a pair of Xeon 8362s from the same decommissioned server. Haven't installed those yet, I have compatible host systems but the heatsinks are sized for a much lower TDP processor so I need to swap those out first so I don't melt the new ones
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@platymew I also got a pair of Xeon 8362s from the same decommissioned server. Haven't installed those yet, I have compatible host systems but the heatsinks are sized for a much lower TDP processor so I need to swap those out first so I don't melt the new ones
@azonenberg i need to make friends with a local scrapper/recycler, too!
They're getting SO much still-good stuff, just because of ...idk...capitalism/upgrade-pressure, or something.
That Australian guy, i watch on YouTube, eWasteBen, switched to selling their RAM sticks, instead of throwing 'em in the bin.
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@azonenberg i need to make friends with a local scrapper/recycler, too!
They're getting SO much still-good stuff, just because of ...idk...capitalism/upgrade-pressure, or something.
That Australian guy, i watch on YouTube, eWasteBen, switched to selling their RAM sticks, instead of throwing 'em in the bin.
@platymew The stuff $company was throwing in the dumpster is significantly better than my fastest machine in the lab.
It's probably LLM sloppy seconds but whatever, RAM is RAM I'll take it lol
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@quantumdude836 yeah the keying for L-dimm and D-dimm is mirrored. Pin numbers count left to right or right to left
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