Next server build?

[TechBill]

What you think about this as a SageTV server?

http://www.techspot.com/review/1155-...-dual-xeon-pc/


Look at the Handbrake result

And the price to build one today.

Bill

[KryptoNyte]

Finding the motherboard for the price they mention ... not so easy. Regardless, that is some serious encoding horsepower.

[KryptoNyte]

On the other hand, the newer Core i5-4690k benchmarks in the Handbrake encoding area are respectable, running roughly 50% of the 2-Xeon system, with the overall system being about 50% of the price of the 2-Xeon system. All of a sudden, that multi-CPU bargain doesn't look quite so extraordinary.

[stanger89]

It's only 12% faster than an i7 6700k and uses three times the power.

[tmiranda]

A timely thread. I'm beginning to think about a new Sage server build as my current machine is getting long in the tooth.

A lot of CPU power is not high on my priority list because Sage is not very CPU hungry, even when running comskip and other "support" programs.

More important to me:
- Energy use. My system runs 24x7. Those Xeons suck a lot of power.
- Memory. I'm looking forward to running a big Java heap.
- SATA ports. 6 minimum.
- NIC. Must be Intel. Most others suck.

[nyplayer]

It's funny after running the HDHRDVR on a NAS I wish there was a NAS port of SageTV ... I am really looking forward to the HDHRDVR finished product so I can retire my Space Heater server.

[stanger89]

Originally Posted by tmiranda

A timely thread. I'm beginning to think about a new Sage server build as my current machine is getting long in the tooth.

A lot of CPU power is not high on my priority list because Sage is not very CPU hungry, even when running comskip and other "support" programs.

More important to me:
- Energy use. My system runs 24x7. Those Xeons suck a lot of power.
- Memory. I'm looking forward to running a big Java heap.
- SATA ports. 6 minimum.
- NIC. Must be Intel. Most others suck.

i7's a pretty great, they don't really use any more power than an i3/i5 at idle, but have a lot more horsepower on tap if you need it

[KeithAbbott]

Originally Posted by tmiranda

A timely thread. I'm beginning to think about a new Sage server build as my current machine is getting long in the tooth.

A lot of CPU power is not high on my priority list because Sage is not very CPU hungry, even when running comskip and other "support" programs.

More important to me:
- Energy use. My system runs 24x7. Those Xeons suck a lot of power.
- Memory. I'm looking forward to running a big Java heap.
- SATA ports. 6 minimum.
- NIC. Must be Intel. Most others suck.

I switched to a Supermicro AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 with SFF 8087 cabling a couple of months back, and it's awesome. You can run eight drives with a total of four cables (two data, two power). It's worked out so well, I've disabled the seven SATA ports on the motherboard.

[UgaData]

Saw this article last week. I thought it would make a nice Host machine for either hyper-V or VMWare. SageTV server seems to run rather well in a virtual machine.