A new addition to the FrankenStation family, the Dell PowerEdge T630 runs RHEL (and Windows 10 Pro for DCS World) just fine!
A little while ago, I decided to retire my main workstation (A Dell Precision T7910) and go for a real server with lots of spare bays. I had mostly been using as the T7910 as a RHEL hypervisor and I kept a small dual-boot Windows 10 Pro partition on it for the sole purpose of playing DCS World. After much shopping around, I found a used PowerEdge T630 with 18 3.5" HDD bays. The machine took a few days to get to my home and transferring the H/W between the two systems took about an hour. This included: - all of my RAM (8 * 32Gb DDR4 LRDIMMs) - Two excellent E5-2682 V4 cpus I got from a nice Lady in Shanghai. - An H730P (2Gb) with several 2Tb SSDs and one HDD. - An EVGA GTX 1660 Ti (6Gb DDR6) - A SuperMicro Dual NVME PCI-E card with an 970 EVO drive for KVM guest datastore. - A Quad-1G i350-T4 NIC (internal NICs, external interface, heartbeats). New H/W included a pair of brand new high-wattage heatsinks (up to 160W per cpu), a GPU power distribution board and a pair...