Last weekend I assembled a new system for my home lab for RHEL, OpenShift, etc hackery.
All from Microcenter/Cambridge, except for DIMMs from Amazon. NB: That mobo must 2133Mhz memory.
- cpu: Intel Core i5-6500, $179.99
- mobo: SuperMicro C7H170-M 1151, $29.99 was $59.99, but $30 in-store discount
- warranty: TWG-2yr mobo replacement, $4.98
- memory: Crucial 16GBx2 32GB Kit, DDR4 2133 MT/s DIMM 288 (CT2K16G4DFD8213), $222.13
- power: Corsair CXM 550W 80+B SM PSU, $49.99 after $20 mail-in rebate
- disk: Seagate 1TB Barracuda HDD OEM, $39.99
- Reused an old Inspiron case with DVD/RW, using built-in video, no keyboard/mouse
Total: $537.07
[marc@mnemosyne ~]$ free -g; df -h / /home
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 31 0 29 0 0 30
Swap: 7 0 7
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/rhel-root 50G 4.0G 46G 9% /
/dev/mapper/rhel-home 873G 68M 873G 1% /home
[marc@mnemosyne ~]$
