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Fair point. I suggested RDIMM based on the amount on RAM, and this has drifted to dual Xeon Gold servers. For "one game server" and "nothing incredibly intensive", one CPU may well do, but that's for @dirtynas to decide.All this for a home video server?
Unless the transcoding GPU is very powerful, 920W should do. Nearly all Supermicro boards have IPMI (all dual CPU, and all single CPU with a trailing "F"). I defer to @jgreco to rule which is the best choice, or the lesser evil, between Intel 10 GbE-on-copper and Mellanox "QSFP+" for 10 GbE (something weird here)…Fair point, I have opted for builds with less CPU with higher thread speed. Of each of the following, I am leaning towards the Dell R740XD, as it has an IPMI and larger power supplies, with some seemingly better networking stuff.
In any case, an extra SFP+ card would not be so expensive that networking should be decisive.
"Registered" or "REG" is RDIMM. All fine here.- 512GB - (16x)32GB DDR4 Registered DIMM memory module -> Maybe not RDIMM
I don't know what that "P" means, but I've only seen it on RDIMM modules, and never heard of RDIMM that is not also ECC.- 192GB DDR4 RAM Installed (12 x 16GB PC4-2133P) -> Maybe not ECC or RDIMM
In all cases, you'll need to add a GPU (check there's a suitable slot!) and replace the RAID controller by a plain HBA (LSI 9300). Preferably one with the right kind of connector in the right place so as not to have to re-do the cabling. -8i is enough if there are SAS expanders on the backplane, as appears to be the case for the Supermicro offers.To complete the above builds I also need the following hardware. Am I missing anything? Will the HBA below work?
Flashing the HBA with the IT firmware is a nice finishing tough, but not strictly required. Getting rid of RAID hardware is necessary for secure ZFS operation.
Or a M.2 NVMe. Or a SATADOM.any decent 2.5 inch ssd as a boot drive (seems the Dell build is missing a SFF slot though, so I suppose some adapter is necessary)
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