Anyone has tested proxmox with first gen Intel i7 880 and Intel i5 560 ?, I win auction for 3 pcs HP 8100 just for $25, each have i7 880, and one left is i5 560, do you think I can use proxmox properly with this first gen Intel CPU ?, just need for backup server…
i dont see why not.
the 870 is a quad core with hyperthreading so other than a higher power draw.
you wouldn’t really notice any difference between it and modern quadcore doing most things.
especially if your running on the metal.
sure some things it wont do as well as it doesn’t have the support for the likes of nvme.
but if all your doing is herding spinning rust…
compiling and the likes will take longer but will still work.
you should be good to do anything with that cpu.
the i5 will show more signs of its age. but again 2 cores with ht running proxmox on the metal.
should work fine. just dont try to run more than a few programs at a time on that one.
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You may find performance is a bit crap as if I recall first gen core doesn’t support sata3. So you’ll be limited to some pretty slow drives.
Multiple VMs really do show up how bad spinning drives are at multitasking real fast.
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Efficiency being main point of disadvantage [power/throughput]
Since it is that old, nvme isn’t gonna be a friend
Things will take sweet time- but shouldn’t not work… unless any missing instructions req’d
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Do you think I can use i7 870 with 32GB RAM ?, Intel ARK reported its only supported 16GB RAM, but there is any Mac with i7 870 and running with 32GB of RAM
What do you think ?
Do you think I can use it for DVR too ?, I plan to use it with 12x 2.1MP webcam, and use it as DVR, I will use PCIe USB extension cards too…
i think its 8gig max per slot.
and the motherboards only had 2 slots… max=16gig.
so maybe if you found a board with 4 you might get 32 gigs working.
yep had a look about… in theory some boards will run up to 32gigs unofficially.
as to which boards… no idea.
hmm honestly mate. im not the guy to ask for this one.
so il leave it to someone who knows more 
I thought you were about to install Proxmox on an Intel 8080 or something, but you were referring to a 1st gen. Core Intel CPU.
Absolutely, why not? I think it really depends on your expectactions with it and what you want to do with it. A Raspberry Pi can do lots of things on a much slower CPU so I’m sure this platform will be perfect to work with, especially for the price you got it for.
If you feel like you might be short on performance you could think about switching to containers instead of Proxmox (if the setup allows).
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My board have 4 DIMM slots… but something unexpected happens… when I use 4x 8gb DDR3 system can’t enter into post, but fan running at maximum speed, and of course nothing in display output (it’s enter freezing state ? but why my fan running at maximum speed ? and no error beep code too)… but when I try 3x 8GB + 1x 2GB system run without problems… I want to try 3x 8GB + 1x 4GB, but still can’t find 4GB DDR3 modules in my warehouse…
Yes I think so…
It’s good for use with rackmount, only about 2.5u size, 13" wide, and about 390mm depth, also It’s use blower fan like common rackmount server… can be used with rackmount tray perfectly… and use horizontal case layout too… very much like custom rackmount server…
I just resuscitated an old i5 655k on h55m system
I have 16 GB in 4 slots @ 1666 MHz, but board specs qualify no ability to increase ram with graphics enabled cpu. I put an old amd 1 GB video card in just to free up some of the 16 GB ram, and I believe I could increase the ram of this configuration
I found Proxmox a bit sluggish, not so much at idle but whenever I added a few VMs. I recommend 2 VMs max and any hardware passthrough. One thing about this board is the Realtek network, that I found needs to be powered off completely occasionally to work when switching OSs
After trying a few OSs, adding an SSD, I think I may revisit installing truenas with an old HBA card I picked up on ebay. The one thing I don’t like most is the computer power/electrical power ratio, but its performance is not far away from a Haswell SFF box I have but is mounted in a bigger case that can hold more spinning rust
The best use I found for it without mod was installing Daphile on a flash drive, sticking a 3 TB drive in it and adding some streaming plugins and some FLAC files on the drive. I can boot off the flash drive or internal SSD just by leaving the flash drive in the USB or not. So far I have win 10 on it, but I might buy a few hard drives and try truenas again
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