You have to carefully select your Xeons in each generation. TDP varies wildly, together with the MHz.noetus wrote: ↑Thu Jul 06, 2017 5:14 pm Does it really make sense to purchase 6 year old server technology? I imagine the cost savings over more recent hardware gets erased within a year or two if running them constantly. Isn't it better to pay this extra cost for more recent hardware that will be more powerful as well as more energy efficient?
Socket 2011 (DDR3) doesn't suffer much compared to the newer Socket 2011-3 (DDR4).