takeawaydave
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- Mar 20, 2013
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Hi I have built a few PC's in the past but I tend to hang on t other for a while and by the time its time to get a new one together knowledge is rusty.
Now I am currently running the following and wish to upgrade. I work from home and develop code which requires me to run tests on a variety of run of the mill platforms (W7, W2K3, W2k8, RHEL5.5., RHEL6, Solaris10) I'm really looking for a bit more of a solid platform to run these on and read around the various Intel VT technologies on mainly the Intel Xeon and have got together a USB ESXi installation. The idea being I would run ESXi off USB perhaps as the main platform with one VM having a graphics pass though (VMDirectPath) which would be my main machine.
Anyway I digress my current hardware is in its 5 year:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 LGA775 'Yorkfield' 2.83GHz 12MB-cache (1333FSB) Processor
Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB 10000RPM SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM
Lian-Li PC-B25B Aluminium Midi-Tower - Black (No PSU)
Asus P5Q Pro Intel P45 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-8500C5 1066MHz Dual Channel Platinum Series DDR2
Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme CPU Cooler (Socket AM2/LGA775)
Samsung SH-S223F/BEBE 22x DVDąRW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM
Noctua NF-S12 800RPM 120mm Silent Case Fan - 3 Pin
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g)
Being on a budget and also wanting to reuse a much of the above components as possible I am thinking of just MB, CPU and RAM replacement. These being:
ASUS P9X79 WS
Xeon E5-1650
Kingston ValueRAM ECC 8x8 GB
or maybe the same except with:
SUPERMICRO X9SRA
I would hang on to the 8800 GTX (at least until I get problems with Graphics VMDirectPath pass through) and then get a suitable AMD card (5450 perhaps).
Some questions:
1. Would the CEB sized Asus MB fit in the Lian-Li PC-B25B Case ? I am a bit suspicious of this myself. Other than this would all run ok given I get a suitable cooler (recommendations ?)
2. Any better recommendations ?
3. I expect to be blow any by either of the above configurations versus what I am running now - will this be the case ?
Anyway thanks for reading - peace.
Now I am currently running the following and wish to upgrade. I work from home and develop code which requires me to run tests on a variety of run of the mill platforms (W7, W2K3, W2k8, RHEL5.5., RHEL6, Solaris10) I'm really looking for a bit more of a solid platform to run these on and read around the various Intel VT technologies on mainly the Intel Xeon and have got together a USB ESXi installation. The idea being I would run ESXi off USB perhaps as the main platform with one VM having a graphics pass though (VMDirectPath) which would be my main machine.
Anyway I digress my current hardware is in its 5 year:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 LGA775 'Yorkfield' 2.83GHz 12MB-cache (1333FSB) Processor
Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB 10000RPM SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM
Lian-Li PC-B25B Aluminium Midi-Tower - Black (No PSU)
Asus P5Q Pro Intel P45 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-8500C5 1066MHz Dual Channel Platinum Series DDR2
Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme CPU Cooler (Socket AM2/LGA775)
Samsung SH-S223F/BEBE 22x DVDąRW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM
Noctua NF-S12 800RPM 120mm Silent Case Fan - 3 Pin
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g)
Being on a budget and also wanting to reuse a much of the above components as possible I am thinking of just MB, CPU and RAM replacement. These being:
ASUS P9X79 WS
Xeon E5-1650
Kingston ValueRAM ECC 8x8 GB
or maybe the same except with:
SUPERMICRO X9SRA
I would hang on to the 8800 GTX (at least until I get problems with Graphics VMDirectPath pass through) and then get a suitable AMD card (5450 perhaps).
Some questions:
1. Would the CEB sized Asus MB fit in the Lian-Li PC-B25B Case ? I am a bit suspicious of this myself. Other than this would all run ok given I get a suitable cooler (recommendations ?)
2. Any better recommendations ?
3. I expect to be blow any by either of the above configurations versus what I am running now - will this be the case ?
Anyway thanks for reading - peace.