Buyer's Guides Archives - ServeTheHome https://www.servethehome.com/category/client-tips-and-tricks/buyers-guides/ Server and Workstation Reviews Fri, 22 Jul 2022 19:57:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.3 How I Got Scammed on an EVGA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 https://www.servethehome.com/how-i-got-scammed-on-an-evga-nvidia-geforce-rtx-3090/ https://www.servethehome.com/how-i-got-scammed-on-an-evga-nvidia-geforce-rtx-3090/#comments Fri, 22 Jul 2022 19:54:37 +0000 https://www.servethehome.com/?p=62346 Amazon sold us an EVGA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 as new, but we found that it was tampered with, leading to major hardware security questions

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]]> https://www.servethehome.com/how-i-got-scammed-on-an-evga-nvidia-geforce-rtx-3090/feed/ 10 A DIY AMD Ryzen Small Business Server Adventure https://www.servethehome.com/a-diy-amd-ryzen-small-business-server-adventure-vmware/ https://www.servethehome.com/a-diy-amd-ryzen-small-business-server-adventure-vmware/#comments Mon, 27 Jun 2022 16:00:21 +0000 https://www.servethehome.com/?p=61871 We go on an adventure of building two AMD Ryzen small business tower servers as low-cost VMware ESXi SMB platforms

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]]> https://www.servethehome.com/a-diy-amd-ryzen-small-business-server-adventure-vmware/feed/ 31 HP Failed Our Q1 Secret Shopper Experiment https://www.servethehome.com/hp-failed-our-q1-secret-shopper-experiment/ https://www.servethehome.com/hp-failed-our-q1-secret-shopper-experiment/#comments Tue, 07 Jun 2022 18:52:15 +0000 https://www.servethehome.com/?p=61511 HP failed our Q1 2022 secret shopper experiment in spectacular fashion. We ordered three systems and were left bewildered with how bad it got

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]]> https://www.servethehome.com/hp-failed-our-q1-secret-shopper-experiment/feed/ 10 Test Driving the PhoenixNAP Bare Metal Cloud for Big Savings https://www.servethehome.com/test-driving-the-phoenixnap-bare-metal-cloud-for-big-savings-intel-supermicro/ https://www.servethehome.com/test-driving-the-phoenixnap-bare-metal-cloud-for-big-savings-intel-supermicro/#comments Mon, 31 Jan 2022 18:48:52 +0000 https://www.servethehome.com/?p=58831 We take a look at the PhoenixNAP Bare Metal Cloud building Proxmox VE and Rancher Kubernetes clusters and compare costs to large public cloud

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]]> https://www.servethehome.com/test-driving-the-phoenixnap-bare-metal-cloud-for-big-savings-intel-supermicro/feed/ 6 Building the Ultimate x86 and Arm Cluster-in-a-Box https://www.servethehome.com/building-the-ultimate-x86-and-arm-cluster-in-a-box/ https://www.servethehome.com/building-the-ultimate-x86-and-arm-cluster-in-a-box/#comments Wed, 01 Dec 2021 16:30:20 +0000 https://www.servethehome.com/?p=57423 We have the Ultimate Cluster-in-a-Box with 8 nodes, 120 cores, 184 threads (both x86 and Arm), 1.4Tbps of network bandwidth, and 624GB of RAM

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