ICTDirect_Dave Posted June 10, 2015 Posted June 10, 2015 Morning All! Just thought I'd drop this here. I don't expect anybody will have the budget for it but you never know. I've got a HP Z820 workstation that's full of all kinds of goodies! 2 x Liquid Cooled Intel Xeon E5-2697 V2 2.7GHz 12 Core CPUs - 8th overall on CPU Benchmark - PassMark - Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 @ 2.70GHz - Price performance comparison 64GB (8 x 8GB) PC3-14900E 1866MHz ECC RAM 2 x 1TB 6GBPS SATA SSD Drive HP Thunderbolt 2.0 PCIe x4 Card Creative Technology Sound Blaster Recon 3D THX Trustudio Pro Sound Core 3D PCI-E X1 Sound Card nVidia Quadro K5000 4GB GDDR5 Professional Graphics Card Bluray/DVDRW Drive It truly is a beast! Anybody got £4150 spare?
Oaktech Posted June 10, 2015 Posted June 10, 2015 I've got a friend who's about to start his own production company I'll point him towards it. 1
ICTDirect_Dave Posted June 10, 2015 Author Posted June 10, 2015 I've got a friend who's about to start his own production company I'll point him towards it. Good man! I've got a few Z820s Ranging from £2000 to £4000 if he needs more than one?
LeMarchand Posted June 10, 2015 Posted June 10, 2015 (edited) Sounds like one for @jamesb Full spec/wishlist: 8 cores (whether two quads or one oct doesn't matter too much to me) Minimum 5TB storage, at least 1TB fast access while the rest is for bulk data 16GB memory minimum, 32GB ideal Capable of driving at least four monitors Multiple network ports, at least 2, ideally 4 The graphics card(s) don't need to be particularly effective at hashing, as work will be providing me a separate resource for that whenever I need it. Full hardware-based disk encryption would be a bonus. More USB 3.0 ports the better. Ideally water-cooled and in a sound-reducing case for my sanity. I've already got all the monitors, keyboards, trackballs, mice, etc that I could ever need. Also no software or operating system required as I'll be building that up myself. On-board sound is fine, as it'll only really be used for conferencing. P.S. You must be getting too many mentions - I had to edit my post 3 times to get it to show in that thread, but jamesb worked first time . Edited June 10, 2015 by LeMarchand
ICTDirect_Dave Posted June 10, 2015 Author Posted June 10, 2015 This is a little above budget for James I think. Though I'm happy to be proved wrong
ICTDirect_Dave Posted June 10, 2015 Author Posted June 10, 2015 Will you accept Egyptian pounds? I'd accept around 50,000 of them
jamesb Posted June 10, 2015 Posted June 10, 2015 Sounds like one for @jamesb P.S. You must be getting too many mentions - I had to edit my post 3 times to get it to show in that thread, but jamesb worked first time . This is a little above budget for James I think. Though I'm happy to be proved wrong Just a touch above my current budget sadly, but I'll keep you posted if anything changes.
clockend25 Posted June 10, 2015 Posted June 10, 2015 Might recommend this to the next member of staff who asks for recommendations for a new device.
tmcd35 Posted June 10, 2015 Posted June 10, 2015 I'd accept around 50,000 of them Grrrr, you wasn't supposed to check the exchange rate
ICTDirect_Dave Posted June 10, 2015 Author Posted June 10, 2015 Grrrr, you wasn't supposed to check the exchange rate Terribly sorry! But 'well pounds is pounds right?' wouldn't save my job
tmcd35 Posted June 10, 2015 Posted June 10, 2015 Terribly sorry! But 'well pounds is pounds right?' wouldn't save my job So you wouldn't be interested in 15m dong then?
LeMarchand Posted June 10, 2015 Posted June 10, 2015 So you wouldn't be interested in 15m dong then? So it's you that sends me all those emails about improving my "size". 15m is a bit OTT though.
ICTDirect_Dave Posted June 10, 2015 Author Posted June 10, 2015 So you wouldn't be interested in 15m dong then? Only if hand delivered in One-Dong coins You're allowed a wheelbarrow to help move them, nothing else... 1
tmcd35 Posted June 10, 2015 Posted June 10, 2015 Only if hand delivered in One-Dong coins You're allowed a wheelbarrow to help move them, nothing else... I'm tempted to grab a wheelbarrow and visit the bank just to see the look on the poor cashiers face...
Oaktech Posted June 10, 2015 Posted June 10, 2015 I'm tempted to grab a wheelbarrow and visit the bank just to see the look on the poor cashiers face... As someone who has tried to do a similar thing - I can confirm that what they will do, is look scornfully at you and book a Loomis delivery to get you the coinage you have asked for at the time you need it. A charity event I worked on wanted to do something which involved £500 of 2p coins which, apparently, you can't get over the counter.
ICTDirect_Dave Posted June 10, 2015 Author Posted June 10, 2015 haha! I think the look on your face when you were hauling the 1,500th wheelbarrow to the top of the Dong mountain you'd created in our car park only to be told you were ten dong short would be even better...
X-13 Posted June 10, 2015 Posted June 10, 2015 Dong mountain Worst. Mountain. Ever. only to be told you were ten dong short would be even better... Dave ALWAYS knows when he's not been given as much dong as promised.
ICTDirect_Dave Posted June 10, 2015 Author Posted June 10, 2015 Worst. Mountain. Ever. I knew all this Dong talk would draw you out Dave ALWAYS knows when he's not been given as much dong as promised. You better believe it!
SHimmer45 Posted June 10, 2015 Posted June 10, 2015 be ideal for replacing the couple of old xeon dell rack servers that are cheesing me off because they are soooo damn big under my desk
ICTDirect_Dave Posted June 10, 2015 Author Posted June 10, 2015 be ideal for replacing the couple of old xeon dell rack servers that are cheesing me off because they are soooo damn big under my desk Well we'd be happy to quote you Actually the one for £2000 would probably be ideal (2xE5-2637 V2, 32GB 14900R, Quadro K2000, 1TB HDD, 256GB SSD, DVDRW) 1
SHimmer45 Posted June 10, 2015 Posted June 10, 2015 the servers in question are VERY ageing Dell poweredge 1900 & an old 840... so i think even a modern desktop is going to be more than enough for the hyper-v testing and other odds and sods i do with them. i think a xeon microserver would fit the bill ideally
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