Vote by May 31st for which Supermicro SuperServer Xeon D-1500 bundle you'd like to see, Amazing, Insane, or Ludicrous?

Results are in, seen below.

Vote now!

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Below, you'll find a copy of the above voting page, takes seconds to actually cast your vote, no login required!

If you read the articles,
Order a TinkerTry'd Supermicro SuperServer Bundle - powerful and efficient home virtualization lab solutions
Nice Canadian gives tour of world's first 16 core Intel Xeon D-1587 Supermicro SuperServer Mini-Tower,
you are well informed and ready to cast your vote. Polls close on May 31st at 23:59 GMT.

• If you own a Xeon D SuperServer already, vote for that one if you're happy with your choice, and done buying.
• If you're thinking about getting your first or second Xeon D SuperServer, vote for that next planned purchase.
• One vote per person.

Choose One:

• $2,134 USD - 08 Core Xeon D-1541 "Amazing" (actual pricing, May 19, 2016)
  High performance workstation/virtualization, many VMs and/or threads.
  2.1/2.7GHz, 45 watt SoC.
  Price includes 64GB DDR4 (128GB max). 128GB. (this one typo fixed May 30th)
  Fully assembled and burn-in tested. Free shipping in US.
  Available as SYS-5028D-TN4T Bundle 2 at Wiredzone today.

• $2,750 USD - 12 Core Xeon D-1567 "Insane" (estimated pricing)
  Higher performance workstation/virtualization, many more VMs and/or threads.
  2.1/2.7GHz, 65 watt SoC.
  Price includes 64GB DDR4 (128GB max). 128GB. (this one typo fixed May 30th)
  Fully assembled and burn-in tested. Free shipping in US.
  Basically a 12 core version of the SYS-5028D-TN4T turn-key server, just add storage.
  This is a future idea, based on a motherboard design that Supermicro doesn't (yet?) make.

• $3,250 USD - 16 Core Xeon D-1587 "Ludicrous" (estimated pricing)
  Highest performance virtualization, very many VMs and/or threads.
  1.7/2.3GHz, 65 watt SoC.
  Price includes 64GB DDR4 (128GB max). 128GB. (this one typo fixed May 30th)
  Fully assembled and burn-in tested. Free shipping in US.
  Basically a 16 core version of the SYS-5028D-TN4T turn-key server, just add storage.
  This is a future idea, based on newly available X10SDV-16C+-TLN4F that Supermicro has already been tested in the same SuperChassis, see also detailed build list.

Update May 31 2016 Update

Above, you'll notice I had a typo in the survey, which was this one change:
Price includes 64GB DDR4 (128GB max). 128GB. (this one typo fixed May 30th)

Yep, the prices have not been adjusted, merely the description, to clarify that those prices include 128GB.

This means these prices looked very high for a 64GB system to voters before May 30th. Preliminarily, it seems that the votes that have arrived since I fixed this typo haven't affected the distribution of votes. I'm so sorry about this honest mistake.

Results

There were two hiccups in my first survey:

• I had to remove two duplicate IPs (two votes from the same household), leaving 109 valid respondents
• I made a mistake in the 3 descriptions, described above

but I'd still say that the voting results are quite telling. More folks want a lower cost SuperServer. Higher core/higher cost systems are more niche, and would likely sell in lower volumes. I really appreciate that so many people took the time to cast their vote.

I will be using this data to try to encourage Supermicro to make a 12 core, and maybe a 16 core, system. I'll also be looking into manually assembled 12 and 16 core systems sold as a bundle by Wiredzone. For me personally, I'd like a Xeon D-1567 12 core myself, to join my current lonely Xeon D-1541 SuperServer.

Stay tuned!

See also at TinkerTry

• Order a TinkerTry'd Supermicro SuperServer Bundle - powerful and efficient home virtualization lab solutions

• Nice Canadian gives tour of world's first 16 core Intel Xeon D-1587 Supermicro SuperServer Mini-Tower