1) Message boards : Number crunching : E5-26xx v1/v2 cpu and motherboard discussion (Message 2013934) Posted 1 Oct 2019 by ivarrthekean Post: Tom M asked me to post with my config. This is my all-purpose Linux system at work: HP Z820 (a beast @ 55lbs) 1125 watt PS HP v1 motherboard (p/n 708464-001) Intel C602 Chipset 2x E5-2620 @ 2.00GHz Piles of ram 1 GTX 1070Ti 1 low-end ATI FireGL card, maybe a 3000. https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=8668207 Overall impressions, this system runs quiet, cool, and very reliable. It's running 24x7, been that way for months. It was in use as a video editing system for 5-6 years before I snagged it. Ebay has a fair number listed, expect to pa ybetween 500 and 1000 USD + shipping for a dual-cpu config. The power supply should support 3 dual-width cards, but I haven't had the slack time to give it a go. The V1 version of the motherboard doesn't support the later E5 Xeon's. That would let me use some of the later lower-power cpus. Only noodling, haven't looked at the tradeoffs seriously. What else would you like to know? Kean

2) Message boards : Number crunching : Anyone running a Intel NUC mini pc ? (Message 1979756) Posted 10 Feb 2019 by ivarrthekean Post: I've got one, NUC7i7BNH, i7, 32 Gb, m.2 SSD. It's a fast laptop in the NUC form factor. The fan can be a bit noticeable, but it's not too loud. One nice thing, it's got a Thunderbolt 3 port so you can slap an eGFX external Thunderbolt enclosure on it, all ready for the GPU of your choice. I ran a 1080 Ti that way for a while, but work wanted their enclosure back so now it's all CPU and the onboard Iris OpenCL crunching. This is the host - https://boincstats.com/en/stats/-1/host/detail/d7ca7687df3f555b9094e90042f61480 Kean

 
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