Gen10+ Anyone got one yet?

[Jason 84]

My Xeon E-2246G CPU is on the way. Hope to swap CPUs within next week. Was curious whether you’ve seen any benefit of having the integrated graphics with this CPU? For example, does Windows Server take advantage of Intel QuickSync hardware acceleration at all? Or does the motherboard simply not recognize the GPU exists since the stock Xeon CPU it was designed to work with didn’t have integrated graphics?

[Jason 84]

Upgraded to E-2246G. Night and day difference from the stock E-2224 Xeon CPU. Don’t know why they didn’t include this one in first place. Like a completely different performance improvement.


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[Trig0r 211]

Nice, did you run any tests between the old Xeon and the new one?

Should imagine people will want to know how much bang per buck they get..

[Jason 84]

Unfortunately not, but I also notice going from 4 cores without hyper threading to 6 cores with HT, the CPU seems to actually run at lower CPU utilization during idle. Which isn’t bad considering my HPE G10+ mostly runs at a low idle as my VMs aren’t very intensive. Honestly, my HPE is more of a file server; I should really be adding more VMs or finding uses for them. If I didn’t already have a UniFi Cloudkey, I’d migrate that to a VM.


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[binky 6]

On 11/13/2020 at 11:42 PM, Jason said:

Upgraded to E-2246G. Night and day difference from the stock E-2224 Xeon CPU.

 

UK cost of Gen10+ is around £700 (https://www.box.co.uk/products/keywords/gen10+plus/ex/true)

Cost of CPU is around £400 (https://www.senetic.co.uk/product-cm8068404227903/)

So an upgrade costing more than 50% of the original server price should be like night and day 😎

I'm running ESXi on one of mine, so I'm tempted to upgrade the CPU... but then I might just end up buying another Gen10+ as I'm replacing the 4 Gen8 MicroServers, so I should really buy 4 of these 🤣

[GarethC 29]

Pentium model is around £450 (no point buying the £700 model if you are going to change the CPU anyway) and was recently covered under one of eBay’s money off deals so was even cheaper, i was tempted to change my second Gen8 too but its rather expensive by the time I’ve changed the CPU and put 64GB RAM in, the reality is i don’t need it as much as it would make migrating VMs between the two easier. 

Edited November 19, 2020 by GarethC

[demiurg 0]

On 11/14/2020 at 12:42 AM, Jason said:

Upgraded to E-2246G. Night and day difference from the stock E-2224 Xeon CPU. Don’t know why they didn’t include this one in first place. Like a completely different performance improvement.
 

Any temperature issues noticed yet? Is there somewhere an overview of (official and inofficial) compatible CPUs (@LoneWolf once did this wonderful CPU overview for G8)?

[GarethC 29]

This is the go to link you need with a tonne of information in for all things Gen10 Plus. 

 

https://www.servethehome.com/hpe-proliant-microserver-gen10-plus-ultimate-customization-guide/

 

I’ve not had any temp issues running an E-2246G and mine is under a good amount of load 24x7.

Edited November 27, 2020 by GarethC

[zdeno 2]

Hi guys,

 

just a question - does anybody here tried connect old battery pack to E408i-p ? I wanted replace E208i-p because the write speed is poor however looks like only E208i-p is currently compatible with G10+. When I am looking around it almost looks like 587324-001 HP P-series FBWC Capacitor and Cable could work with E408i-p controller.

 

One thing related to guide mentioned above - there isnt problem with rams however they are not visible in iLO (at least CT32G4DFD8266) however they works well in ESXi 6.7