Hi,
great suggestions - thanks so far!
Seems i have the choice between
- this really good price/value E5-2670 Dual Xeon and this board:
http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=EP2C612D8#Specifications
(the Supermicro one is at least here in Germany much more expensive -
and the Asrock has more SATA3 Ports... - do you see any difficulties in
comparison with the Supermicroboard you mentioned?)
oooor
- i7-6700K Intel Skylake with a board like this :
https://www.asus.com/de/Motherboards/Q170M-C/specifications/ (Q Chipset
should ensure VTD funcionality i hope!)
so basicaly the choice between 16 cores with the dual xeon but with a
max of 3.3Ghz - or 4 cores "only" with the Skylake i7 but 4.2Ghz...
puh. hard one. games rarly scale well on multiple cpus, but OTOH this
is/will be changing with time and newer games... but a rapid
single-core-performance is always handy for the tasks that are not
threadable...
now im really stuck in my descision-finding-process :)
i'll think about it for the weekend
if you see any omg-dont-buy-that-it-wont-work issues - please tell me!
Thanks and Greetings
Tobias
Am 12.05.2016 17:23, schrieb Ryan Flagler:
Yep, that's the one. Dirt cheap! I was able to snag a used SuperMicro
X9DR7-LN4F dual-socket motherboard and threw 2 of them in there. I
don't have much of an issue giving my VMs enough CPU. :) ECC DDR3
Registered memory is relatively cheap on ebay too.
On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 10:21 AM Alex Williamson
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Ryan Flagler
<[email protected]> wrote:
I know Alex has recommended the E5 series processors/motherboards
for the best compatibility. There are 2 versions of motherboards
that support that right now. Socket R and Socket R3. Obviously E5
series processors are not very affordable brand new; however, the
market is currently flooded with server pulled E5-2670 CPUs. They
can be easily found for $60 on ebay. These CPUs work on Socket R
motherboards. Additionally, these motherboards will still support
DDR3 memory which is cheaper to acquire than DDR4 as well.
That's where I'd start if I was you. Obviously there could always
be issues with 1 manufacturer to another, but hopefully that's a
starting place.
Nice tip! You're referring to Sandy-Bridge EP, right?
http://ark.intel.com/products/64595/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2670-20M-Cache-2_60-GHz-8_00-GTs-Intel-QPI
8-core, hmmm that's tempting.
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