Fujitsu D3643-H MB B360 (Intel,1151,DDR4,Micro-ATX), S26361-F5010-V160

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With the above in mind, we can define our ideal CPU: the highest possible single-thread performance with good multi-thread performance. As it turns out, that CPU is currently Intel’s i7-8700K. No other x86 CPU matches its single-core speed, and with six cores total it is a more than decent multi-core contender, too. Component Selection There are many different ways to measure CPU performance. I find Cinebench to be a useful indicator. It has both single-core and multi-core benchmarks. The single-core result of 203 is even slightly higher than expected. The multi-core result of 1414 is only surpassed by some of AMD’s Ryzen CPUs and by Intel’s expensive i9 processors. Cinebench and Meltdown/Spectre The FUJITSU Mainboard D3644-B of the Extended Lifecycle Series is the best solution for demanding requirements. It supports the Intel® XEON® E-21xx processor series, the A “gaming” mainboard would not have been my natural choice. Neither do I really need a dedicated GPU. Unfortunately, none of the currently available mainboards for Intel’s 8th generation (Coffee Lake) CPUs are equipped with two DisplayPorts. As we will see below, this choice of mainboard and GPU negatively affects power consumption.

I had initially run Cinebench before any Meltdown/Spectre OS and firmware patches. Once the machine was fully patched and the BIOS firmware updated, and I had verified that the patches fully mitigated the threats, I ran Cinebench again. Encouragingly, the Meltdown/Spectre mitigation did not affect the Cinebench performance at all. The multi-core benchmark result was even 3% higher. So simply put: If you keep writing constantly, the disks never idle and thus never reach a chance to spin down. Regardless of how spindown itself is handled... (For spindown, a disk needs to be idle. If no disk ever idles, it wouldn't spin down regardless of the spindown setting). Spindown is per drive setting... But keep in mind that all drives are mostly writen at once* and the times for spindown (regardless of how low its set) only starts counting down when a drive is on standby.reading various official hardware sizing guides and user builds I find it hard to decide how much CPU horsepower I'll need for my use-case. I am a mechanical keyboard aficionado. I guess this started in the late ’90s when I typed on a Cherry G80-3000-LSMDE for the first time. The low force required to […] Based on their suggestions I assembled the following components for my workstation PC build: CPU: Intel i7-8700K Mainboard: MSI Z370 Gaming Pro Carbon (today I would use the Fujitsu D3643-H instead, see below) RAM: 4 x Crucial DDR4 16 GB PC4-19200 non-ECC (64 GB in total) SSD 1: Samsung SSD 960 Pro M.2 SSD 2: Samsung SSD 850 Pro (data disk from my previous machine) CPU cooler: Thermalright Macho Rev.B Power supply: be quiet! Pure Power 10 400 Watt Case: be quiet! Pure Base 600 GPU: MSI GeForce GTX 1060 Gaming X 6G 6GB

I blame Intel’s Z370 chipset, the only chipset currently available for Intel’s 8th generation (Coffee Lake) CPUs. According to other people’s measurements, the GPU consumes a bit less than 10 Watts when idle. Interestingly, it does not matter whether you connect one or two (4K) displays to the GPU. There is not even a significant change in power consumption if you connect a single display to the mainboard’s Intel graphics instead.That will kill your PSU. Supermicro's *SMALL* spec for a 24-bay chassis is the 920 watt dual module supply, which is not sufficient to guarantee brownout-free spinup when one of the PSU modules is removed.