Recent content by Senor Chang

I considered it but I'm not really a fan of dated software.. All things considered.. a white-box like mine was bound to get picked off eventually. I was looking at RAM, and I just thought it'd be best to go with a used C1100 with 32+GB or something.. I figure I'll sell off the RAM, CPU, PSU, and...

I let it collect some dust but recently upgraded to 5.5.. Long story short VMware is trying to kill off our white-boxes. As an Extreme4 970 owner you feel it since they dropped support for both the Realtek RTL8111E NIC and the SB700 SATA controller. Fixes below: Install ESXi 5.5 with Realtek...

Yesterday I built a ESXi whitebox to explore IOMMU but I've encountered an unexpected outcome. AMD FX-8320 ASROCK 970 Extreme4 32GB DDR3 From what I had read the Extreme4 fully supported passthrough on ports 0-4 and left the 5th port for stores. I've got everything configured and...