Lucky eBayer snags 128-core Intel server for $700 — HP server has 1TB RAM and 16 Xeon CPUs worth more than $4,000
- Sixteen Xeons give this ageing HP C7000 enclosure a surprisingly dense processor count
- The 1TB DDR3 memory pool remains the biggest number in the listing
- Each blade adds eight cores and sixteen threads to the overall configuration
A UK seller trading as NomadUK has listed a fully populated HP C7000 blade enclosure for £500 per blade, roughly $700 at current exchange rates.
The bundle includes sixteen BL460c G8 servers, each built around a single Intel Xeon E5-2660 processor with 8 cores, 12 threads, and a 2.20 GHz base clock under the Sandy Bridge-EP architecture.
Multiplied across the chassis, it delivers 128 physical cores and 256 logical threads, backed by 1024GB of DDR3 memory spread across 32 modules of 32GB each, running at speeds up to 1600MHz through registered DIMMs.
The hardware underneath the headline numbers
The listingshows that each blade uses the Intel C600 series chipset paired with an...
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