HP MicroServer (Gen8) now at a much cheaper price! Some people still prefer this over the new Gen 10!
Intel Celeron G1610T Dual-Core (2.30GHz 2MB 35W) 4GB (1 x 4GB) PC3L-12800E 1600MHz UDIMM (Low Voltage) 4 x Non-Hot Plug 3.5in Dynamic Smart Array B120i No Optical 200W USB 2.0 ports 4 Ethernet LAN (RJ-45) ports 2 USB 3.0 ports 2 USB 3.0 (3.1 Gen 1) Type-A ports 2
- jasee
Top comments
maui
27 Jun 177#3
the cashback is misleading. I imagine most on HUKD won't have company accounts to claim VAT back as well, so it should be £119.09 after cashback.
As for Gen10, I was not aware until just looking at quickspecs. Seems a weak system for 2017 - and only AMD processor at the moment, along with 32GB RAM limit. I get it's deliberately limited to not interfere with their ML10 line, but this could have so much more potential when you look how far the NUCs have come.
ollie87
28 Jun 177#26
Firstly, why are you shouting?
Secondly, no. Issues with PC gaming right now are that GPUs are expensive due to high demand from the Ethereum miners.
You'll want to spend around £300 for a basic system for Minecraft. My current budget gaming rig recommendations:
so you gave the pre-discount price INCLUDING VAT but the discounted price EXCLUDING VAT.
nice one on the misleading advert. /r/hailcorporate
ollie87
28 Jun 173#31
It's not a joke. I will help anyone, for free, to build their own gaming rig.
I have already helped quite a few members now through posts exactly like this one, I'll admit they don't look great but that's a limitation of the formatting tools available. But thanks for the support mate, I'm so glad you're such an active and helpful member of the community.
Latest comments (58)
emmkay
19 Jul 17#56
Guys, anyone can recommend the graphic card for this HP Gen8 machine?
HP don't provide any graphic card for this so officially no support for sellers, and since the space is so tight in the microserver, only way is to learn from others experience.
By the way if Xeon doesn't have integrated GPU and we get an additional PCIe graphic card to upgrade the display to full HD, it might become a good combination of user upgrade. Xeon CPU are very cheap from eBay from China.
hotukdeals6 to emmkay
19 Jul 17#58
I ended up going for a Core i3-3240, which cost £30 off eBay. Seems to run fine with the stock heat sink. I saw the Xeons from China but wasn't sure whether they were legitimate and didn't want to end up paying import duty.
emmkay
19 Jul 17#57
TOP TIP FOR CASHBACK CLAIM
Please submit the claim online - avoid postage, paper waste and super convenient.
emmkay
12 Jul 17#55
MSI GT 710 1GD3H LP NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 PCI Express 2.0 1 GB Graphics Card - Multi-Colour Amazon had for 30.70 and plenty of reviews. Note someone said they had to cut corner of the card to fit this in gen 8
emmkay
12 Jul 17#54
One of the posts for previous deal has graphic card on amazon for about 30 quid and is 1080p with three display support. I'm thinking of ordering that card. Let me find the name of the card for you
phillai
29 Jun 17#40
You can put in a different CPU in the Gen8, so you can upgrade it in your own time.
For example, I've replaced the standard Celeron G1610T to the Xeon E3-1220Lv2!
You can't change the AMD CPU on the HP Gen10.
nige182 to phillai
29 Jun 171#41
I think what JoeSpur was getting at is that the HP Gen10 CPU has a better Passmark than the Xeon E3-1220Lv2. The only CPU for the Gen9 with a better passmark was the Xeon E3-1265Lv2 user mod. However the Xeon E3-1220Lv2 is a lower TDP, so depends on needs really.
hotukdeals6 to phillai
12 Jul 17#53
Looks like that CPU doesn't have a built in GPU did you have to put in a graphics card in the server?
emmkay
12 Jul 17#52
Hi guys, anyone managed to install Windows 10 on it? I've tried but it is asking for disk driver.
emmkay
12 Jul 17#51
Thanks Rdann. I managed to get one this time
rdann
7 Jul 17#50
Same deal on Ebuyer, which is the best company to deal with out of the 2?
rdann
3 Jul 17#49
Looks like it has been extended for July.
emmkay
1 Jul 17#48
Damn ...missed it :neutral_face:
Is this offer available anywhere else? Can someone please help with sharing any links?
JoeSpur
1 Jul 17#47
I tend to think of a server as "always on", so bootup time is not that big of an issue. I must admit when I first got it I was disappointed with the boot time, but now I 'understand' it.
mikerr
30 Jun 171#46
gen7 were quick booting and silent enough to be in the lounge (but slow cpu)
gen8 have more cpu grunt but a 2 minute bios startup and a louder fan
gen10 more powerful still, but has removed some upgradabilty - can't replace cpu
Finlee8
30 Jun 17#45
Thanks for your help.
OrribleHarry
30 Jun 171#44
Only the boot drive every other drive will be fine.
Finlee8
30 Jun 17#43
Thanks for the reply. My issue is that I don't want them wiped therefore scared to get a new microserver!
Panda221
30 Jun 17#42
Looking a the gen10 and the cpu I'll stick with my gen8 better looking and it's got a Xeon E3-1230V2 in it
mikerr
29 Jun 17#38
JoeSpur to mikerr
29 Jun 17#39
Am I missing something? Gen10 seems conclusively "better", but everywhere I have read has been slating it in comparison to Gen8... then again a lot of people slated Gen8 in comparison to G7 N54L, even though t was infinitely better!
Finlee8
28 Jun 17#32
Sorry for the noob question. If I took the hard drives out of my HP10(I think it's called) microserver, will they be wiped clean if I bought this new microserver? Asking here as I would be asking the same on a forum elsewhere.
OrribleHarry to Finlee8
29 Jun 17#37
Not automatically but you can easily wipe and re-use in this.
emmkay
29 Jun 17#36
Hi everyone, I have the HP Gen7 microserver which I upgraded with HD video card, DVD drive (never used much) and additional memory 4GB. It has been fantastic, robust unit but it must be getting old and fan noise is becoming uncomfortable now.
Can someone please comment if the video card from previous machine be suitable to use in this Gen 8 machine - card is Sapphire 11190-02-20G AMD HD6450 1GB DDR3 Lite Retail PCI-E Graphics Card ?
I am happy to spend more if I can get a quieter, robust and better performing out of box system - can anyone please recommend something? My purpose will be to use it for normal home use like browsing, watching video, playing media, burning Blu-ray, iPlayer, music etc. Win10 will be good.
JoeSpur
29 Jun 17#35
I absolutely love these threads!
:smile:
Ego-X
28 Jun 17#34
That's cool BUT the parent was clearly joking. Why the serious reply?
hukdplan
28 Jun 17#33
The mining part is not a joke. All RX470/80/RX570/80 are either going to be out of stock(they have been for a few weeks now) - or being sold at price gouging figures on eBay.
I'll give a quick example of what's happening - Scan said they had some Sapphire RX570s arriving on the 16th June(Friday) so earlier in the week I rang them up and asked what the odds were of getting one - "Well Sir, your order would be number 390 so you might have to wait ...".
So that's 400 orders, just for one card - that had had a previous delivery two weeks earlier. Every Tom, Dick, and Harriet is snapping up AMD cards for mining ...
ollie87
28 Jun 173#31
It's not a joke. I will help anyone, for free, to build their own gaming rig.
I have already helped quite a few members now through posts exactly like this one, I'll admit they don't look great but that's a limitation of the formatting tools available. But thanks for the support mate, I'm so glad you're such an active and helpful member of the community.
Ego-X
28 Jun 17#30
Assuming that is a joke: How long do you think you keep could keep joe user's attention if you verbalised it? :smile:
pc5020
28 Jun 171#29
My Gen 7 is staying with me til it dies....
voodooboard
28 Jun 171#28
I haven't done it but I believe you can put grub onto a microsd card or usb stick (there are internal ports for both), boot from that and point it at your SSD. Should be very simple and a tiny card/stick will suffice.
gordo1964
28 Jun 171#27
I have a Gen 7 , son wants to set it up as a Minecraft server. Can anyone recommend info resources that can be recommended. Probably going to use Windows 10 as not familiar with Linux.
ollie87
28 Jun 177#26
Firstly, why are you shouting?
Secondly, no. Issues with PC gaming right now are that GPUs are expensive due to high demand from the Ethereum miners.
You'll want to spend around £300 for a basic system for Minecraft. My current budget gaming rig recommendations:
my gen7 fits 7 HDDs (4x3.5, 2x2.5 and a pcie), an optical drive and I believe I can stick one more hdd in there. Will this have enough space for all that?
idbirch
28 Jun 17#24
It's been a couple of years since I set mine up but certainly at the time, I couldn't figure out a way to make the thing boot from the SDD if it was connected via the ODD SATA port. If memory serves, I just re-routed the cables using a SATA extension so that the SSD was connected to the first drive bay's SATA port and the drive in bay 1 went into the ODD port.
edit: I've popped it open to check and yes, apart from the fact I didn't use an extension, this is how I did it. I unscrewed the sata/power connector for bay 1 from the back of the drive cage and connected those to the SSD which is sat flat directly below the drives. A long SATA cable then runs from the ODD port over the top and into the back of bay 1. Bay 1 is powered by an FDD power -> SATA power adapter cable.
tech3475
28 Jun 17#23
As I said, I'm using AHCI which is the likely reason why I can't boot otherwise (wanted more than RAID 1).
I also chose the ODD adapter route because, at the time at least, it was the cheapest and easiest method for me to deal with the floppy connector (plus it secures the HDD).
omneity1
28 Jun 17#22
I bought one of these a few months back, upgraded the RAM to 8Gb and bought a second-hand Xeon CPU off ebay and it's an absolute flyer. Running Xpenology (Synology NAS).
SlightlyFoxed
28 Jun 17#21
You can install Windows on it and it will take a low profile GPU, but it isn't ideal for gaming.
The Gen 8 is a massive step up from the Gen 7 (I have both), and the upcoming Gen 10 looks like a step backwards. However, the Gen 8 isn't without it's frustrations - choosing not to use the integrated RAID controller results in the fan running at high speed (noisy). Restarts take an age, making it less tinker-friendly despite the upgradeable CPU.
danmed
28 Jun 171#20
Not sure what you've done here.. you can very easily run a sata cable from the ODD sata port to the top of the machine and then split the power off the existing molexs... never had a problem with the machine booting with or without HDD's in the front bays.
AbandonedTrolley
28 Jun 171#19
Bought a Gen8 last December and still not bothered to set it up yet!
ian30
28 Jun 17#16
Anyone know if this server will boot from an ssd installed on the 5th sata connection ment for optical drives? I looked around and it appears if you use an ssd on the optical port and have any other drives installed it will not boot any more from the ssd but defaults to the other sata ports and there is no option in the bios to make it use the ssd as the boot drive?
edanfalls to ian30
28 Jun 17#17
Yes it will work, but you need a molex to SATA power adapter. Just set up a single RAID0 on the SSD.
tech3475 to ian30
28 Jun 171#18
I use ahci and no it doesnt work.
What I had to do was remove the front hdds to get it to boot at first, then I used easybcd to create a usb based boot disk which was set as the first boot device.
Edit:
Also, just so you know its a floppy connector.
I ended up getting a odd to sata adapter and an adapter which converts floppy and sata to the odd sata connection.
idbirch
28 Jun 172#15
Bolded for eyerolls.
edit: oh, I thought of one you missed - fed and watered. You need to keep your little servers in your datacenter fed and watered.
tech3475
28 Jun 171#14
Think Id rather stick with the gen8, managed to upgrade the cpu on it and the benchmarks beat the amd.
That combined with ilo make it a better overall option.
Only thing which may benefit the gen10 is better onboard gpu, something my cpu upgrade broke.
fluffyb
27 Jun 17#13
I purchased one of these on Friday from Serversplus and paid the 15 quid for saturday delivery.
Cracking little machine (to replace my N54L running xpenology and DSM 5) - got xpenology (with DSM 6.1.2) running on it nicely. Just need to decide on what to do about storage - new bigger disks or migrate existing disks...
I did think of waiting for the Gen10 - which does look an interesting bit of tin - but the pricetag on the gen10 might be more than I was thinking of paying.
Not sure if I am going to keep N54L as additional storage, add into VM farm or something else...
htslough
27 Jun 17#12
What happened to Gen9 ???
Did HP get in bed with Microsoft or something?
nascent
27 Jun 172#11
Still love and depend on my gen7 with six drives in it and custom bios. Seems that each new model gets worse rather than better.
cyclops
27 Jun 171#10
I bought this over a year ago when i saw it on here, had high hopes for it...... its still in the box (annoyed)
nige182
27 Jun 171#9
Don't need it, have 2 Gen7 that are still working fine. If it was sub-£100 after cashback, I'd have probably bought one anyway, but this price, I'll pass.
YarramOZ
27 Jun 17#7
Date and terms sounds dodgy says it has to be delivered before 30th and claim recieved before 31st. of june
cjhilton49 to YarramOZ
27 Jun 171#8
Suggest you read correctly ,claims by 31st JULY!
thefunkygibbon
27 Jun 176#6
so you gave the pre-discount price INCLUDING VAT but the discounted price EXCLUDING VAT.
nice one on the misleading advert. /r/hailcorporate
the cashback is misleading. I imagine most on HUKD won't have company accounts to claim VAT back as well, so it should be £119.09 after cashback.
As for Gen10, I was not aware until just looking at quickspecs. Seems a weak system for 2017 - and only AMD processor at the moment, along with 32GB RAM limit. I get it's deliberately limited to not interfere with their ML10 line, but this could have so much more potential when you look how far the NUCs have come.
jackvdbuk
27 Jun 172#2
just seen your comment regarding the gen10, cant see it for sale anywhere, why would anyone prefer this one?
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Opening post
Some people still prefer this over the new Gen 10!
Intel Celeron G1610T Dual-Core (2.30GHz 2MB 35W) 4GB (1 x 4GB) PC3L-12800E 1600MHz UDIMM (Low Voltage) 4 x Non-Hot Plug 3.5in Dynamic Smart Array B120i No Optical 200W
USB 2.0 ports 4
Ethernet LAN (RJ-45) ports 2
USB 3.0 ports 2
USB 3.0 (3.1 Gen 1) Type-A ports 2
- jasee
Top comments
As for Gen10, I was not aware until just looking at quickspecs. Seems a weak system for 2017 - and only AMD processor at the moment, along with 32GB RAM limit. I get it's deliberately limited to not interfere with their ML10 line, but this could have so much more potential when you look how far the NUCs have come.
Secondly, no. Issues with PC gaming right now are that GPUs are expensive due to high demand from the Ethereum miners.
You'll want to spend around £300 for a basic system for Minecraft. My current budget gaming rig recommendations:
Good - £275.53 - Super basic gaming rig, good for Minecraft and eSports, not much else.
PCPartPicker part list: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/WHzWsJ
Price breakdown by merchant: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/WHzWsJ/by_merchant/
CPU: AMD - Athlon X4 845 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (£38.99 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Asus - A68HM-K Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard (£36.93 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Patriot - 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£23.85 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate - BarraCuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£37.99 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: PowerColor - Radeon RX 460 2GB Red Dragon Video Card (£79.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Case: Zalman - T2 Plus MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£23.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Power Supply: EVGA - 430W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply (£33.79 @ Aria PC)
Total: £275.53
Improved - £306.61 - Solid eSports rig.
PCPartPicker part list: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/Rt8X7h
Price breakdown by merchant: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/Rt8X7h/by_merchant/
CPU: AMD - Athlon X4 845 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (£38.99 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Asus - A68HM-K Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard (£36.93 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LP 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£42.03 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate - BarraCuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£37.99 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Sapphire - Radeon RX 560 2GB PULSE Video Card (£92.89 @ More Computers)
Case: Zalman - T2 Plus MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£23.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Power Supply: EVGA - 430W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply (£33.79 @ Aria PC)
Total: £306.61
Better - £402.92 - This will play a lot much modern games and will be a good budget 1080p system
PCPartPicker part list: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/n8rWsJ
Price breakdown by merchant: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/n8rWsJ /by_merchant/
CPU: AMD - Athlon X4 860K 3.7GHz Quad-Core Processor (£48.20 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: Asus - A68HM-K Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard (£36.93 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LP 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£42.03 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate - BarraCuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£37.99 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Gigabyte - Radeon RX 570 4GB Gaming 4G Video Card (£179.99 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Zalman - T2 Plus MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£23.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Power Supply: EVGA - 430W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply (£33.79 @ Aria PC)
Total: £402.92
Best - £441.26 - Best 1080p gaming rig under £500 currently
PCPartPicker part list: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/9bKGFd
Price breakdown by merchant: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/9bKGFd/by_merchant/
CPU: Intel - Pentium G4560 3.5GHz Dual-Core Processor (£56.99 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: ASRock - B150M-HDS Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£48.74 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: ADATA - XPG Z1 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2800 Memory (£50.63 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate - BarraCuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£37.99 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: MSI - Radeon RX 570 4GB ARMOR OC Video Card (£184.99 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Zalman - T2 Plus MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£23.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Power Supply: EVGA - 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply (£37.93 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £441.26
nice one on the misleading advert. /r/hailcorporate
I have already helped quite a few members now through posts exactly like this one, I'll admit they don't look great but that's a limitation of the formatting tools available. But thanks for the support mate, I'm so glad you're such an active and helpful member of the community.
Latest comments (58)
HP don't provide any graphic card for this so officially no support for sellers, and since the space is so tight in the microserver, only way is to learn from others experience.
By the way if Xeon doesn't have integrated GPU and we get an additional PCIe graphic card to upgrade the display to full HD, it might become a good combination of user upgrade. Xeon CPU are very cheap from eBay from China.
Please submit the claim online - avoid postage, paper waste and super convenient.
For example, I've replaced the standard Celeron G1610T to the Xeon E3-1220Lv2!
You can't change the AMD CPU on the HP Gen10.
Is this offer available anywhere else? Can someone please help with sharing any links?
gen8 have more cpu grunt but a 2 minute bios startup and a louder fan
gen10 more powerful still, but has removed some upgradabilty - can't replace cpu
Can someone please comment if the video card from previous machine be suitable to use in this Gen 8 machine - card is Sapphire 11190-02-20G AMD HD6450 1GB DDR3 Lite Retail PCI-E Graphics Card ?
I am happy to spend more if I can get a quieter, robust and better performing out of box system - can anyone please recommend something? My purpose will be to use it for normal home use like browsing, watching video, playing media, burning Blu-ray, iPlayer, music etc. Win10 will be good.
:smile:
I'll give a quick example of what's happening - Scan said they had some Sapphire RX570s arriving on the 16th June(Friday) so earlier in the week I rang them up and asked what the odds were of getting one - "Well Sir, your order would be number 390 so you might have to wait ...".
So that's 400 orders, just for one card - that had had a previous delivery two weeks earlier. Every Tom, Dick, and Harriet is snapping up AMD cards for mining ...
I have already helped quite a few members now through posts exactly like this one, I'll admit they don't look great but that's a limitation of the formatting tools available. But thanks for the support mate, I'm so glad you're such an active and helpful member of the community.
Secondly, no. Issues with PC gaming right now are that GPUs are expensive due to high demand from the Ethereum miners.
You'll want to spend around £300 for a basic system for Minecraft. My current budget gaming rig recommendations:
Good - £275.53 - Super basic gaming rig, good for Minecraft and eSports, not much else.
PCPartPicker part list: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/WHzWsJ
Price breakdown by merchant: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/WHzWsJ/by_merchant/
CPU: AMD - Athlon X4 845 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (£38.99 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Asus - A68HM-K Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard (£36.93 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Patriot - 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£23.85 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate - BarraCuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£37.99 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: PowerColor - Radeon RX 460 2GB Red Dragon Video Card (£79.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Case: Zalman - T2 Plus MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£23.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Power Supply: EVGA - 430W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply (£33.79 @ Aria PC)
Total: £275.53
Improved - £306.61 - Solid eSports rig.
PCPartPicker part list: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/Rt8X7h
Price breakdown by merchant: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/Rt8X7h/by_merchant/
CPU: AMD - Athlon X4 845 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (£38.99 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Asus - A68HM-K Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard (£36.93 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LP 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£42.03 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate - BarraCuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£37.99 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Sapphire - Radeon RX 560 2GB PULSE Video Card (£92.89 @ More Computers)
Case: Zalman - T2 Plus MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£23.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Power Supply: EVGA - 430W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply (£33.79 @ Aria PC)
Total: £306.61
Better - £402.92 - This will play a lot much modern games and will be a good budget 1080p system
PCPartPicker part list: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/n8rWsJ
Price breakdown by merchant: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/n8rWsJ /by_merchant/
CPU: AMD - Athlon X4 860K 3.7GHz Quad-Core Processor (£48.20 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: Asus - A68HM-K Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard (£36.93 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LP 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£42.03 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate - BarraCuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£37.99 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Gigabyte - Radeon RX 570 4GB Gaming 4G Video Card (£179.99 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Zalman - T2 Plus MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£23.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Power Supply: EVGA - 430W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply (£33.79 @ Aria PC)
Total: £402.92
Best - £441.26 - Best 1080p gaming rig under £500 currently
PCPartPicker part list: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/9bKGFd
Price breakdown by merchant: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/9bKGFd/by_merchant/
CPU: Intel - Pentium G4560 3.5GHz Dual-Core Processor (£56.99 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: ASRock - B150M-HDS Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£48.74 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: ADATA - XPG Z1 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2800 Memory (£50.63 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate - BarraCuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£37.99 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: MSI - Radeon RX 570 4GB ARMOR OC Video Card (£184.99 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Zalman - T2 Plus MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£23.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Power Supply: EVGA - 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply (£37.93 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £441.26
edit: I've popped it open to check and yes, apart from the fact I didn't use an extension, this is how I did it. I unscrewed the sata/power connector for bay 1 from the back of the drive cage and connected those to the SSD which is sat flat directly below the drives. A long SATA cable then runs from the ODD port over the top and into the back of bay 1. Bay 1 is powered by an FDD power -> SATA power adapter cable.
I also chose the ODD adapter route because, at the time at least, it was the cheapest and easiest method for me to deal with the floppy connector (plus it secures the HDD).
The Gen 8 is a massive step up from the Gen 7 (I have both), and the upcoming Gen 10 looks like a step backwards. However, the Gen 8 isn't without it's frustrations - choosing not to use the integrated RAID controller results in the fan running at high speed (noisy). Restarts take an age, making it less tinker-friendly despite the upgradeable CPU.
What I had to do was remove the front hdds to get it to boot at first, then I used easybcd to create a usb based boot disk which was set as the first boot device.
Edit:
Also, just so you know its a floppy connector.
I ended up getting a odd to sata adapter and an adapter which converts floppy and sata to the odd sata connection.
edit: oh, I thought of one you missed - fed and watered. You need to keep your little servers in your datacenter fed and watered.
That combined with ilo make it a better overall option.
Only thing which may benefit the gen10 is better onboard gpu, something my cpu upgrade broke.
Cracking little machine (to replace my N54L running xpenology and DSM 5) - got xpenology (with DSM 6.1.2) running on it nicely. Just need to decide on what to do about storage - new bigger disks or migrate existing disks...
I did think of waiting for the Gen10 - which does look an interesting bit of tin - but the pricetag on the gen10 might be more than I was thinking of paying.
Not sure if I am going to keep N54L as additional storage, add into VM farm or something else...
Did HP get in bed with Microsoft or something?
nice one on the misleading advert. /r/hailcorporate
Some info about Gen10 compared to the other ones.
https://homeservershow.com/forums/topic/15066-comparing-the-hpe-proliant-gen10-microserver-beta-to-previous-microservers/
https://www.servethehome.com/new-hpe-proliant-microserver-gen10-powered-amd-opteron-x3000-apus/
CPU no longer upgradeable, no iLO. The two DisplayPorts are nice though.
As for Gen10, I was not aware until just looking at quickspecs. Seems a weak system for 2017 - and only AMD processor at the moment, along with 32GB RAM limit. I get it's deliberately limited to not interfere with their ML10 line, but this could have so much more potential when you look how far the NUCs have come.
only reason i kept my gen 7 is the dual PCI slots