Tonight’s blog post is just a hardware upgrade, I was able to get ahold of 2 Intel Gold Xeon 5118 for a really good price on ebay. They arrived a day ago and got a chance to swap the Intel Xeon Silver 4110 to these Gold’s and they are beefy and great performance and power consumption!
Front ViewInternal View of the Dell PowerEdge R740 ( this is a 16 bay version)Air shroud cover is off, currently the Intel Xeon Silvers are still in the server!CPU’s are out!Cleaning up with Arctic Clean Thermal compound removerCleaning up any dust! 🙂
That is it! Server powered up and have seen zero issues, really nice CPU upgrade – it went smooth and really quick took 15 minutes.
