Server project ideas!

Diahard1000 · May 28, 2017

So I've just purchased a IBM x3850 for almost literal penny's $50 aud. Now I want to put in one GPU and maybe 2 to sli now they only have 8x slots tons of them but only 8x now if I somehow wired 2 x8 slots to one 16x slot. Would that work? Or won't I lose any performance with a single 8x riser per card. Note thinking 1070 area card. Use case is running 2 VMS to do medium gaming think call of duty black ops 3.

USAFRet · May 28, 2017

No, you can't simply wire them together to magically make it 16x.

It's a server box.
Use it as a server.

jaslion · May 28, 2017

Diahard1000 :

1. No you can wire 2 slots togheter to make 1 faster
2. That server is cheap for a reason it uses 10 year old cpu's that will bottlneck a 1070 quite extremely (even if you have the best available configuration)
3. It's a server pc so it will be extremely loud and take 5+ min to boot due to it initiating all of it's features first
4. A 1070 will be slightly bottlenecked by a gen 2.0 pcie 8x slot

Diahard1000 · May 28, 2017

jaslion :

Can or can't? Just making sure there wasn't a typo. And the CPUs in it were both made in 2010. This particular setup is still used quite heavily considering the standard price at the time of my purchase was about $1000 aud. And according to ibm the x8 slots are all each 6gbs just to say the cpus are x7350

USAFRet · May 28, 2017

Diahard1000 :

jaslion :

Can or can't? Just making sure there wasn't a typo. And the CPUs in it were both made in 2010. This particular setup is still used quite heavily considering the standard price at the time of my purchase was about $1000 aud. And according to ibm the x8 slots are all each 6gbs just to say the cpus are x7350

I'm pretty sure that was a can't.

USAFRet · May 28, 2017

Its a server. A powerful machine, in its day, for what it was supposed to do.
You can't just turn it into an uber game machine.

You can't make those ports into 16x, you can't SLI with that board...
It is what it is, no matter how cheap it was.

Just like if you have a really powerful game machine...you don't take it to work and run your corporate database server on it.

Diahard1000 · May 28, 2017

USAFRet :

Agreed was just a theroy

James Mason · May 28, 2017

Yeah to agree with the others, you bought an old POS.
Those processors are really terrible by today's standards.
They're quad core CPUs, with no hyper threading so it's only 4 cores, like an i5, and they have a pretty pathetic clock speed of 2.93ghz, they're also 130w TDP which is like was the high end overclocking CPUs run at.

These 4U rack mount servers are also LOUD AS $#%^!
They're meant to be locked behind doors where you can't hear them, because they sound like a vaccum cleaner 24/7.

Also, games/normal windows programs CAN NOT use more than 1 CPU, because they have to be specifically coded for it, and they aren't because no one uses multiple CPU systems for normal stuff.

If you wanted to experiment/learn how to run VMs are like Windows server 2003 R2 it may be useful, but only if you can lock it somewhere far away from anything with ears.

jaslion · May 29, 2017

Diahard1000 :

jaslion :

Can or can't? Just making sure there wasn't a typo. And the CPUs in it were both made in 2010. This particular setup is still used quite heavily considering the standard price at the time of my purchase was about $1000 aud. And according to ibm the x8 slots are all each 6gbs just to say the cpus are x7350

The 1000$ price is false as you can get waaay better servers for less. You probably looked at a really old unit that was still using it's original price and hasn't been updated in years. These server can be widely found for 200$ or less.

jaslion · May 29, 2017

James Mason :

Yeah to agree with the others, you bought an old POS.
Those processors are really terrible by today's standards.
They're quad core CPUs, with no hyper threading so it's only 4 cores, like an i5, and they have a pretty pathetic clock speed of 2.93ghz, they're also 130w TDP which is like was the high end overclocking CPUs run at.

These 4U rack mount servers are also LOUD AS $#%^!
They're meant to be locked behind doors where you can't hear them, because they sound like a vaccum cleaner 24/7.

Also, games/normal windows programs CAN NOT use more than 1 CPU, because they have to be specifically coded for it, and they aren't because no one uses multiple CPU systems for normal stuff.

If you wanted to experiment/learn how to run VMs are like Windows server 2003 R2 it may be useful, but only if you can lock it somewhere far away from anything with ears.

Vacuum cleaner is an understatement.

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