Coyote's Blog

Foreword  I was a little reluctant to write this piece. First because I was lucky to snatch an RTX 3080 Ti in the few weeks when the price dropped enough and I know many gamers haven't been able to get an RTX in the recent years.  Second, because what I will describe is by no means the 'greatest' gaming rig. It's just a 'fine' gaming rig for my own purpose and I'm not even trying to convince anybody that this is the best setup you could get. It's probably not even cost-effective but I like it the way it is. The Frankenstation dilemma Due to my daily activities and because I like great towers, I find myself without a dedicated gaming rig. I never brought myself to build a dedicated box for gaming because I don't spend enough time gaming to justify having a gaming PC. Because of this, I've always used a PowerEdge with a good GPU as my system: Most of the time, it's running RHEL but a few hours per month, Ill boot Windows 10 and play a game or t

A few tips about using the Dell PowerEdge T140 as a frankenstation. The Dell PowerEdge T140 is a compact mini server which can be purchased from Dell with some decent specs. It turns out that the server is more expandable than the official specs on the Dell site. We will detail this here. If you're looking to buy a T140, I'd recommend buying it direct from Dell as their discounts are usually better and the system will come with up to 3 years of warranty. Processors I like 8 core Xeons because it gives me 16 threads so I went for the E-2278G model at 3.4Ghz. The T140 uses an Intel Socket FPGA 1151 which means that it will also take a variety of core i3 and celeron chips but there are a few catches: - The core i3 and celeron cpus for the T140 max out at 64Gb RAM and don't have ECC memory support. - All of the Xeon SP Gen2 Xeons which go into the T140 support up to 128Gb RAM and ECC memory. (more on this later) Due to the above, I would really advise getting a Xeon if you'