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From: Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Dell prepares to rebrand
Date: 15 Jan 2025 10:02:17 +0000 (GMT)
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D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> I have very good connections at supermicro, and sadly what was 
> communicated to me a few months ago was that they are only interested in 
> selling "AI" servers now, so cheap, high:ish density 1U servers are out 
> and no one gets a lot of commission on it, so it's a pain to get anyone to 
> care about those orders. =(
> 
> Chenbro I have not heard about. I will check it out! Another option is 
> Gigabyte, sometimse it seems as if Gigabyte can be a good replacement for 
> supermicro.

We have some Gigabyte.  They're fine, they're kind of mid range in price and
in creature comforts (BMCs etc) but they're ok.  Chenbro is very much at the
budget end, would tend not to go there (sharp metal, cheap PSUs, ...)

Put in some Asrock 1Us, there are some with Ryzen desktop CPUs that
have very good price/performance (~£3k for similar spec to a £6-8k Dell) but
they can be a bit hard to buy.

But the most recent batch was Supermicro AS-1015A-MT, Ryzen 7950X3D, 128GB
RAM, 4TB NVMe, 1U for about £3k.

Theo