Best CPU for the DL380 G9?

[BastianW]

We currently run some DL380 G9 with 2xE5-2699 v3 CPUs and currently look into an upgrade from only the CPUs. When I checked the QuickSpecs PDFs I´m a little bit lost which might be the best CPU here. The Server is used to compress movies into the x265 Format. Any advise would be great.

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1. Advisory: HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8 or ProLiant DL380 Gen9 Servers - An Intermittent Drop in Speed for Link Training May Occur for the Server CPU and the NVIDIA GRID K2-RAF Card for PLX Bridge Chipset Components During POST

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[SouthernDevGirl]

The v4 version of the same processor (2699v4) is a good upgrade (same FCLGA2011-3 socket and sold in some of the final gen9 DL380's); however, it wouldn't be worth the cost if you are not able to repurpose your existing v3 version.

For your specific purpose, you would get much better performacne with an RTX-based GPU, I believe.  And for much less money, pack 4x4x4x4 (4x4 bifuircated) NVMe drives to temporarily move any in-process content before archiving it to a more economic form of storage.

[BastianW]

thanks, will have a deeper look into some 2699v4. The idea was to sell the old CPUs and invest the money into the newer one.

The issue with SSDs/NVMe disk is that they aren´t build to permanetly write stuff on them (like we do in our case). If also look like if the bootleleg isn´t the disk its the CPU. The disk is mostly not doing a lot of stuff here.

But I like the idea to maybe install a RTX based GPU. However most of them became very expensive... thats why we started to look at first to the CPUs.