Too expensive anyway. There are many cheaper ways to build an SFF machine without paying a premium. Get a Louqe Ghost or Dan Case A4 off of ebay and buy the cpu + MoBo bundle off of micro center for $30 off. Get a Sf600 sfx psu and you're all set for 70% the price with much better looking cases.
Makes no sense. And this article is wrong, the reference quadro p5000 has four DisplayPorts, a dvi and no hdmi ports. I've never seen a workstation use an hdmi cable. Most enterprise use DisplayPorts only, through there is some dvi for legacy.
The 8700T is actually a decent upgrade over recent generation, 65W Skylake i7 desktop processors. It scores 12954 on Passmark with a single threaded score of 2404. Compared to an i7-6700 which scores 10012 overall and 2156 single threaded, that's a notable increase despite the 30W lower TDP making it a reasonable upgrade for workstation usage.
I'm a bit surprised by those results. I thought Skylake and coffee lake would have the same IPC clock for clock since it's the same architecture, and thus have the same single threaded performance more or less. And for the multithreaded performance, I wonder what impact would the 35W TDP limit have on a heavy multi-threaded workload.
It's really annoying that they're using a Quadro. Why do manufacturers think the only ones who want 10Gbe are businesses? I've been using 10Gbe at home for over 2 years now, and needed at least 2.5Gbe for far longer than that. 1Gbe is TOO SLOW.
Uh. None of the new-ish Quadro cards have HDMI on them. NVidia Reference P5000 is 4x DP and 1x DVI P2000 is 4x DP. Smaller/lowprofile P630/whatever stuff is miniDisplayPort. HDMI is completely useless for professional cards as even at 2.0 its bandwidth and signal integrity etc is much worse than that of DP1.2/1.3/1.4.
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ingwe - Tuesday, June 12, 2018 - link
Any reason they would use 4x hdmi 2.0 instead of some display ports and such?milkywayer - Tuesday, June 12, 2018 - link
Too expensive anyway. There are many cheaper ways to build an SFF machine without paying a premium. Get a Louqe Ghost or Dan Case A4 off of ebay and buy the cpu + MoBo bundle off of micro center for $30 off. Get a Sf600 sfx psu and you're all set for 70% the price with much better looking cases.Spunjji - Wednesday, June 13, 2018 - link
The Dan A4 is £260 in the UK and 600W SFX PSUs are £100; not sure you'll be making big savings there.Death666Angel - Wednesday, June 13, 2018 - link
He seems to do all his shopping second hand and on sale, so there are your savings. :D 280€ for a Dan A4 case here in Germany. Yikes.Andy Chow - Saturday, June 16, 2018 - link
Makes no sense. And this article is wrong, the reference quadro p5000 has four DisplayPorts, a dvi and no hdmi ports. I've never seen a workstation use an hdmi cable. Most enterprise use DisplayPorts only, through there is some dvi for legacy.peevee - Tuesday, June 12, 2018 - link
Yeah, workstation with 35W CPU. What a wonderful idea.PeachNCream - Tuesday, June 12, 2018 - link
The 8700T is actually a decent upgrade over recent generation, 65W Skylake i7 desktop processors. It scores 12954 on Passmark with a single threaded score of 2404. Compared to an i7-6700 which scores 10012 overall and 2156 single threaded, that's a notable increase despite the 30W lower TDP making it a reasonable upgrade for workstation usage.Sources:
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Cor...
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Cor...
Spunjji - Wednesday, June 13, 2018 - link
Don't spoil his gloom with facts! :DYakku - Wednesday, June 13, 2018 - link
I'm a bit surprised by those results. I thought Skylake and coffee lake would have the same IPC clock for clock since it's the same architecture, and thus have the same single threaded performance more or less. And for the multithreaded performance, I wonder what impact would the 35W TDP limit have on a heavy multi-threaded workload.dgingeri - Tuesday, June 12, 2018 - link
It's really annoying that they're using a Quadro. Why do manufacturers think the only ones who want 10Gbe are businesses? I've been using 10Gbe at home for over 2 years now, and needed at least 2.5Gbe for far longer than that. 1Gbe is TOO SLOW.Pork@III - Tuesday, June 12, 2018 - link
up to 32GB RAM for workstation...this is bad...timecop1818 - Wednesday, June 13, 2018 - link
Uh. None of the new-ish Quadro cards have HDMI on them.NVidia Reference P5000 is 4x DP and 1x DVI
P2000 is 4x DP.
Smaller/lowprofile P630/whatever stuff is miniDisplayPort.
HDMI is completely useless for professional cards as even at 2.0 its bandwidth and signal integrity etc is much worse than that of DP1.2/1.3/1.4.