[ale] Anyone out there?

Mon Apr 24 23:17:24 EDT 2023

I am still around. Thankful for the servers that I have gotten from you
guys, though I am now moving more towards Small Board Computers, I up to I
got 25 of those up and running, less heat. Having fun getting libvirtd
working on them and running more virts. The Rockchip RK3588 so
SWWWWWEEEETTTTT, man SBC have come a long way, I am sad to say that unless
Raspberry comes out with something to match it, I am sticking with the
Raxdax, Orange PI 5 and Indedroid, 8 K playback and emmc so nice.

In fact I won't buy any refurb Dell anymore, the power I am saving with the
SBC and not baking from the heat a God sent.

If we ever met again I thought to do a talk for the group on these new
boards. I've been moving away from openSUSE to Armbian ( Debian ) because
of the easy and the fact it runs on most everything.  Still hate Ubuntu (
Sorry DJPfulio).

Work, Jim I regret going to work for the CDC, our director IT has no
directors and everything a dumpster fire. Though I can say my docker skills
have grown. Now he talking about moving to the cloud, I am wondering, why,
we haven't build out what we need to support our group. What a waste of our
taxes dollars, but hey why should it be diff than most companies we have
worked for, right. What is worse, I because a team lead. I ever tell you
guys, I am introvert and hate people. Oh well. So on my death bed I can
save I did, I was a manager of sorts, though I be happier in a DC listening
to the hmm of million servers fans than the whines and lies of people.

Anyway, need to get pizza and beer, no longer a grey beard. I am now a
white beard, TerrorPup the White.

On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 6:47 PM Lnx Gnome via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> No kidding. I keep trying to downsize, but it has been fruitless.
>
> On Sun, Apr 23, 2023 at 10:02 AM Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>
>> Since my daily driver became twin super computers I can't even look at
>> the off-lease/warranty gear from eBay any more without wasting too much
>> time figuring out what else it would need to be a baby testing environment
>> for work stuff.  "So 3-5 of those, more ram for each, a triplet of 2U drive
>> boxes for lustre and new switch...." And suddenly that $250 used server
>> morphs into a $15k 10 node cluster with a $400/month power bill to do....
>> nothing.
>>
>> I'm beginning to think that HPC may be an addiction best treated with
>> low-tech hobbies like gardening and metalsmith work. Just need to build out
>> that CNC plasma cutter with a small cluster for a blender render farm to
>> drive it....
>>
>> ARRRRGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 10:40 AM DJPfulio--- via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>
>>> The list has been slow recently.
>>>
>>> Refurb microtower Dell and passmarks below.
>>>
>>> An ebay special ... All of us get asked by friends about cheap "servers".
>>>
>>> Dell has a Core i3-8xxx refurb for $125 in a Micro Tower case. Free
>>> shipping.  Perfect for non-gamers that want a small PC for cheap.  Add a
>>> 2T-8T drive and you have a great backup server for your home LAN with 5300
>>> passmark v10.  Good enough for office work or media server, if that's your
>>> need.
>>>
>>> https://www.ebay.com/itm/385371116037 - Seller has over 98% positive
>>> ratings on 290K sales.
>>>
>>> Specs:
>>>      Intel i3-8100T 3.1GHz 4-Core / 4-Thread Processor (35W)
>>>          Intel HD Graphics 630
>>>      8GB DDR4 2400MHz Memory
>>>      128GB Solid State Drive
>>>      Windows 10 Pro
>>>      Ports:
>>>      2x USB 2.0
>>>      4x USB 3.1
>>>      1xDisplayPort 1.2
>>>      1xHDMI
>>>
>>> Friends don't let friends by older computers when these are so very
>>> cheap. I'm still seeing 3rd - 5th generation PCs being sold for similar or
>>> higher prices.  A 4rd gen Core i7 isn't better than this 8th gen Core i3.
>>> Compare
>>>
>>> CPU             Technology                      Max TDP Passmark v9
>>> i3 8300T DDR4 2400      8th Gen Coffee Lake     35W     7880
>>> i7 4765T                4th Gen Haswell         35W     7540
>>> i5 7500T                7th Gen Kaby Lake       35W     7485
>>> **i3 8100T DDR4 2400    8th Gen Coffee Lake     35W     7424**
>>> i5 4570S                4rd Gen Haswell         65W     7021
>>> i5 7400T                7th Gen Kaby Lake       35W     6887
>>> i5 6400                 6th Gen Skylake         65W     6850
>>> i5 6500T DDR4 2400      6th Gen Skylake         35W     6340
>>> i5 6500T DDR3           6th Gen Skylake         35W     6280
>>> i5 7260U                7th Gen Kaby Lake       15W     5883
>>>
>>> Don't get too worried about the 10s in any passmark scores. Round
>>> up/down to the closed hundreds
>>>
>>> A Core i3-13xxx is around 15K passmarks.  That's about the same as a
>>> Core i7-10xxxx.  While I didn't check that Core i7 3 generations older than
>>> Core i3 are roughly the same performance, it does seem reasonable.
>>> Check it out: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html
>>>
>>> Posted because I hate to see people blowing more money than necessary. I
>>> don't know this seller, though I have bought used computers off ebay a few
>>> times when I needed something cheap and fast.
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