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what is your budget? that will help narrow the hardware search field. Another thing to consider, if this is a high availability or mission critical server, you might just want to buy a system, warranties and quick service can be invaluable. Although, I always build my own because who doesn't enjoy t...

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we just built a server in a similar ilk, supermicro is really great here. although they like proprietary MBs and you tend to be stuck getting the Chassis too, and they can be a bit pricey. as far as non-techincal people accessing the VMs that should be easily handled by any virtualization service yo...

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I think the 2Rx4 ... means dual rank. but I'm not sure at all actually. just guessing here.] Your hunch was correct, just heard back and they are in fact Dual rank, so at least I don't have to worry about the speed dropping to 800Mhz, not that my workflow would have really suffered (much) from that...

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this is very helpful, thanks so much for the resources. I have always felt just a little out of the loop on some of this stuff. I really appreciate the help.

I am going to reach out to my contact for kingston to verify the Rank of these particular DIMMs, if the are dual rank, that would be great!

mthguy

At least for a GPU I think you should wait till AMD UNVEILS Hawaii gpu on the 28th of this month..we might be in for a pleasant surprise. Are better Linux drivers going to be released too? Hardware doesn't really mean much if the drivers are awful or non-existent. The OP shouldn't wait for these ca...

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Oh, one thing that totally slipped my mind was the whole concept of memory rank. It affects mainly the bigger, cheap DIMMs. Looks like a lot of the 16GB dimms are "quad-rank". Here's something on it: http://www.supermicro.com/support/resources/memory/X9_DP_memory_config.pdf Great resource...

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a setup like that is WAY more than the $5000-$6000 I am looking to spend. but I agree that time is money, but I like to spend my time playing with things bought with someone elses money....

mthguy

do to the scarcity and relative price jump for faster memory, I have settled for 1600MHz DDR3 ECC Registered and bumped it up to 8x16GB

mthguy

Ok, I will update the Specs in the 2nd post... but I have moved to a 550W PSU from NZXT HALE82N I believe. modular. only about $60 vs the $330 the 1200W one was. I like NZXT's Cases, who makes their PSUs? I doubt they are producing them...

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I should be able to get away with something closer to 700W right? So as I see it my power requirements are (please tell me if I am missing something) my estimates in {} Intel E5-2687W v2 130W (this is the TDP, which doesn't represent the maximum draw, should I add in headroom here to be safe? AMD W...

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I like Tyan boards. I do like Tyan as well, we have a couple 4P AMD systems running on them. but I have to agree with JBI, Supermicro is a gold standard. For RAID cards, I like running Areca cards. The biggest draw, for me, is the built in network port, so I can access them remotely without having ...

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is there a more reasonable PSU I should be looking at, with the w7000 and a Single E5-2687W v2 on the Asus Z9PA-U8 with a pair of SSDs and a single 4TB drive, I doubt I need 1200W. I always have trouble figuring how much power I should have (including safe amount of headroom)

mthguy

the link on wikipedia got me there, I must have missed it. the 1680V2 at 3GHz vs the 2687WV2 @ 3.4GHz for only $400 more. not sure which is better for me really, it might be nice to get a 2P mainboard with a single E5-2687W v2 then be able to drop another in there in 6 months and get a nice boost.

mthguy

An argument could probably be made for the i7-4930K (or 4960X) OC'd to 4+GHz really, but I am always weary of lots of DIMMs without ECC... thoughts?

mthguy

I'm waiting for the Samsung XS1715 those certainly look intriguing but no price or availability date makes it hard to wait. if I knew it would be a few weeks, ok. but indefinite, can be months. E5-1680 v2 I don't see this on Intels ARK, and the 2650 could be compelling but In some single threaded p...

mthguy

End User wrote:
I'd go with a 1TB SSD over two 512GB in RAID 0.

the price doesn't scale linearly, neither does the bandwidth.

mthguy

Z9PE-D8 WS and dual E5-2620 v2 I am not opposed to a 2P setup... but something with a higher clock speed is in order, like the E5-2637V2 would work, with 4 cores each, but then I am trading one die for two with roughly the same price, 2x$1000 one 1x $2000 I have heard there are some performance iss...

mthguy

Also, Anyone have a reference when it comes to REgistered/buffered ram and what each means for me? I have never truly understood the differences there.

mthguy

Everyone here runs FirePro AMD cards ( with windows) and that is what I have in my current workstation, but I find that the prices shoot through the roof if you start adding much power. for example the FirePro w7000 is comparable in price to the 780 @ ~$650 while something more in line performance w...

mthguy

yea, I typically run debian based distros, I started on fedora years ago, and slowly migrated to ubuntu for their great repos and I prefer apt to yum/rpm. I fell in love with Arch though, and I have trouble going back. That said I am sure I will end up on something like Ubuntu LTS or something, but ...

mthguy

mthguy wrote:
miss pacman.

lol. just re-read that post.

mthguy

with the current config listed above, I would probably just run the SSDs as individual disks rather than a RAID 0. my only real concern with the RAID 0 is the TRIM (or similar garbage collection {set all empty bits to 0}) compatibility Honestly, CentOS probably is a more sensible choice, but I reall...

mthguy

well I typically have several memory hog applications in use (layout tools like Indesign, raster processors (photoshop and Gimp), We process large Variable data projects that can have to be ripped through massive buffers, each instance can easily eat 4GB, etc.) I tend to browse the internet, and str...

mthguy

Specs as they stand now: ⋅ Motherboard: 1x - Supermicro - X9SRE - $350 link ⋅ Socket 2011 ⋅ C-602-A Platform ⋅ 8 DIMM slots ⋅ ATX [Secondary option] Asus - Z9PA-U8 - $300 link ⋅ Socket 2011 ⋅ C-602-A Platform ⋅ 8 DIMM sl...

mthguy

ok, I am building a workstation for work (how novel an idea) I have a copious budget, and free reign to build it myself. I plan on using Arch Linux (possibly a windows 8 VM (via KVM) for those times you just can't seem to avoid windows). the thing is I spend most of my hobby time and effort within b...

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Hey congratulations, Devos is a great hospital, my son had open heart surgery to fix a pair of holes last year and Dr Hilman was the Surgeon, absolutely top notch. Glad to hear she is doing well, and that the 920 is capturing these moments so well for you. can't wait for the BBQ and to meet your bun...

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I have been looking into netbooks, do any of them have reasonable build quality and a nice big keyboard? Also, the Asus transformer look intriuging to me. 399 and I could get the keyboard dock for 40 or 50. a little over budget but I get much more because I get a tablet too.

mthguy

I like the idea of the older think pads, are any of them known to have hardware that plays especially nice with debian or fedora?

mthguy

I am not picky about much besides the build quality, and my needs, at least form what I can gather, don't require much horsepower, so something from 12-18 months ago, would be fine. core 2 or equivalent from AMD. I don't know what brands or models have had noteworthy build quality in order to know w...

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I finally have a job that will allow me o purchase a new laptop. so let me first give you the run down of what I am looking to do with it, and then what is important to me. then with any luck you guys can help me find the perfect fit. things I will be doing: 1.) writing code in various formats (Java...

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