Jason 84 Posted November 11 Share Posted November 11 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? Link to post Share on other sites
Jason 84 Posted November 13 Share Posted November 13 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.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Trig0r 208 Posted November 14 Author Share Posted November 14 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.. Link to post Share on other sites
Jason 84 Posted November 14 Share Posted November 14 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.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to post Share on other sites
binky 6 Posted November 19 Share Posted November 19 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 🤣 Link to post Share on other sites
GarethC 27 Posted November 19 Share Posted November 19 (edited) 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 by GarethC 1 Link to post Share on other sites
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