I upgraded a free T410 with two X5675, 32GB ECC RAM, PCIe to NVMe adapter, a RAID array of 2TB drives and an USB3 controller.
I's a quite capable machine. I needed it to learning about NUMA archs and test my software.
However there is no sleep mode. The boot time is not that bad for a server so I start it with IPMI bounced from a SBC.
I made it quiet the hard way, mainly for fun and learning about embedded control loops: water cooling with a passive motorbike radiator and a Arduino to control pumps and monitor temperatures while feeding fake hall sensor data to the original BMC so it doesn't freak out.
I's a quite capable machine. I needed it to learning about NUMA archs and test my software.
However there is no sleep mode. The boot time is not that bad for a server so I start it with IPMI bounced from a SBC.
I made it quiet the hard way, mainly for fun and learning about embedded control loops: water cooling with a passive motorbike radiator and a Arduino to control pumps and monitor temperatures while feeding fake hall sensor data to the original BMC so it doesn't freak out.