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On 12/11/2024 2:22 AM, Martin Brown wrote:
> I will concede that it is extremely difficult to convince any vendor that you 
> want such a high spec machine with very basic graphics. I think it went round 
> three times before they accepted that I really knew what I wanted and 
> understood the trade offs involved. Sales questioned it, pre-build review 
> questioned it and then the guy building it rang up too.
> 
> Yes I was sure I didn't want their high spec graphics card using twice as much 
> power as all the rest of the machine put together.

Look for server offerings.  The video is typically designed just to
support a "maintenance console".

OTOH, you can get support for many spindles, beefier processors
(cuz servers are meant to do WORK), etc.

My latest is a 1U, dual 3.1/3.8GHz, 8 core Xeons with 256G of DRAM and
ten 2.5" spindles (each 2T but I will probably replace them with 500G SSDs
just to find a home for the damn SSDs!).  Of course, you are limited
(size and number) to the PCIe cards you can stuff inside (2).

You can also go the NUC route if you want to watch TDP.  But, that tends
to be more consumerish -- things like in-built BT, etc.  I don't think
they offer anything better than an i7.