DL360e, what to do with it..

[Trig0r 171]

So, many moons ago I bought a server on a whim, it was late, I may, or may not have been drinking..

 

DL360e G8 Server

2x E5-2448L's

52Gb RAM

500Gb Crucial SSD

P420/1Gb

 

Its got a rack and the rails, 4 NIC's, 4 of the 8 SFF caddies and a single 750w PSU (will take 2 tho), problem is, I dont really have the space, or any need for it..

 

I was thinking about trying to find a mATX motherboard that'll take the CPU and then use that to replace my i7-3770s server CPU and board, other than that, anyone in the UK need any bits or anyone suggest a board that'll take at least one of the CPU's?

[schoondoggy 763]

If I am reading things correctly, the E5-2448L is a socket 1356. I am not seeing any single socket motherboards for socket 1356. Here is a good post on E5-2400 XEON:

https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/intel-xeon-e5-socket.1492280/post-10978648

[Trig0r 171]

Yeah I had a look around yesterday after I had posted this, chances of finding a board to put bits in is going to be a struggle...

 

Wonder if I could find an ATX board that would take both lol..

 

Thinking it might be staying as it is..

[schoondoggy 763]

Supermicro and Gigabyte both made dual socket 1356 in extended ATX.

[Trig0r 171]

Yeah they arent cheap though, think it might strip it or sell it as it is, I've managed to find 1 LGA 1356 board but it only has 2 RAM slots so 16Gb tops, so no use as the machine I want to replace already has 32Gb in it...

[schoondoggy 763]

I would look at selling it as a complete unit. Probably get the most out of it that way.

[Trig0r 171]

Might go install Win10 on it, just for the PnG's..