Sell me your old servers!

MrDOS

Yeah, really, and depending on how you label the packing slip, there'll be 15% of the value of the package in duty waiting for me on this side of the border. But actually, I was expecting it to be almost twice that.

Anyway, I'm going to get in touch with the person I'm hunting a machine down for and see what he says.

Also, what is the processor series, or are they those weird legacy Xeons that don't really have model numbers to speak of?

Damian

Looks like it:

processor       : 3
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 4
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz
stepping        : 3
cpu MHz         : 3000.000
cache size      : 2048 KB
physical id     : 3
siblings        : 2
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 1
apicid          : 7
initial apicid  : 7
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 5
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall lm constant_tsc pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl cid cx16 xtpr
bogomips        : 5999.18
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 128
address sizes   : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

bijan588

Is this worth it? Or a good deal?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rackable-2U-Server-2x-AMD-Opteron-2218-2-6ghz-Dual-Core-32gb-2x-500gb-KFSN4-DRE-/230677040980?pt=COMP_EN_Servers&hash=item35b56c4f54

Kairus

@bijan588 said: Is this worth it? Or a good deal?

What are you going to use it for? They're pretty old processors, from 2006. Who knows how much wear is on those hdds as well.

On passmark:
[Dual CPU] Dual-Core AMD Opteron 2218 3018
Intel Xeon E31230 @ 3.20GHz 8422

bijan588

@Kairus said: What are you going to use it for? They're pretty old processors, from 2006. Who knows how much wear is on those hdds as well.

On passmark:

[Dual CPU] Dual-Core AMD Opteron 2218 3018
Intel Xeon E31230 @ 3.20GHz 8422

Planning on using it for some shared webhosting and VERY specific game hostsing (ArmagetronAdvanced)

Do you know of any other BUDGET high ram servers?

prometeus

@bijan588 said: Do you know of any other BUDGET high ram servers?

what do you mean?
BUDGET < ???
High ram > ???

quirkyquark

@bijan588 said: Do you know of any other BUDGET high ram servers?

Build your own, getting chunks/parts used/new as required.

bijan588

@prometeus said: what do you mean?

BUDGET < 300
High ram > 16-32GB

Yes its a VERY VERY low budget

lele0108

Try searching eBay for dual L5420s, they are quite cheap.

prometeus

VERY VERY VERY

bijan588

@prometeus said: VERY VERY VERY

I CAN spend more, but I prefer not too.

prometeus

I see you need such servers to run ArmagetronAdvanced, does it use more ram than cpu power?

bijan588

@prometeus said: I see you need such servers to run ArmagetronAdvanced, does it use more ram than cpu power?

For some odd reason, the servers tend to use more ram overtime, like a memory leak that lasts after a restart.

Anyways, CPU is a total non issue, but I would like to keep it under 2amps

MrAndroid

@William said: You can contact me aswell, i have around 200 towers - mostly 775 quadcores with 4/8/16Gb DDR2 RAM and NO HDDs - to sell.

Write a PM for pricing.

Would you be able to deliver to the UK?

Also what CPUs do these have? I would want to replace the DDR2 with DDR3 if it could take it.

rds100

DDR2 and DDR3 are different, you can't fit one in the slot for another. So if the motherboard is for DDR2 it can't use DDR3.

MrAndroid

@rds100 said: DDR2 and DDR3 are different, you can't fit one in the slot for another. So if the motherboard is for DDR2 it can't use DDR3.

I know their different, but you can fit DDR2 in DDR3 right?

rds100

Only if you use a hammer or something.

NateN34

@Daniel said: I know their different, but you can fit DDR2 in DDR3 right?

Sure, it will fit once you force it, but it won't work.

quirkyquark

@Daniel said: I know their different, but you can fit DDR2 in DDR3 right?

It's funny but for a while, there were certainly some desktop boards -- Intel Socket 775, and some AMD ones, that were compatible with both DDR2 & DDR3. Of course, this meant 2 DDR2 + 2 DDR3 slots, and no, you couldn't run them both together.

MrAndroid

@quirkyquark said: It's funny but for a while, there were certainly some desktop boards -- Intel Socket 775, and some AMD ones, that were compatible with both DDR2 & DDR3. Of course, this meant 2 DDR2 + 2 DDR3 slots, and no, you couldn't run them both together.

I know my dad once brought DDR2 instead of DDR3 upgrades for his computer, and it accepted the DDR2, but also accepted the DDR3.

Jacob

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/516865-B21-HP-SE1102-SERVER-4GB-RAM-1x-L5420-INTEL-QC-CPU-/320881112841?pt=UK_Computing_Networking_SM&hash=item4ab6013709

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Intel-QUAD-CORE-Xeon-L5420-2-5GHz-CPU-Socket-771-SLBBR-12MB-L2-Cache-/330716144537?pt=UK_Motherboards_CPUs&hash=item4d0037e399

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/8GB-4x-2GB-DDR2-667Mhz-PC2-5300P-ECC-HYMP525P72CP4-Y5-AB-C-PC2-5300P-HP-p-n-/160775945769?pt=UK_Computing_ComputerComponents_MemoryRAM_JN&hash=item256efe3e29

Then all you need is the Hard Drives & Heatsink for the other CPU, That build would involve 2 x L5420, 12GB PC2-5300P RAM, They come with 4 x 12MM Fans incase and a SATA Backplane but the cables are their so it can be used for SAS aswell.

That would cost you under 200 Quid and Easy, They are all tested before they ship 'em out and have been running smoothly for me.

bijan588

More servers please.

Looking for

4-8 cores
~24GB ram
200GB-500GB HDD

~300$ budget

MrDOS

Bamp from the grave.

https://pay.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/vn2r3/selling_a_ton_of_old_dellcisco_hardware/

Some guy on Reddit is offloading a bunch of old Dell kit, if anyone's still looking.