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Hi,... I'm stopping with my business..and i had a nice xeon e3-1230v2 server with 32GB memory (ECC) and enough harddrives.
It was a whitebox for ESXi running various vm's.
The thing is, if I do not get another case/motherboard, I cannot really use it anymore at home. At the moment,.. I have nothing really to game on or use as a bit heavier machine than a Macbook Air.
so I reckon this stuff can be transformed to a nice workstation.
Before I close down, I will buy a Nvidia Titan for cuda processing and gaming. So Prefer a nice troughput on the PCIe lanes.
The thing is,..there's a IBM Serveraid 1015 left. This runs on a PCIe 8 slot. Don't know if it actually uses all the bandwith itself. I've got 4 SSD's.. probably running 3... and 4x 3TB WD RED's...
My problem is the following... which board shall I get to use ECC memory, the Xeon chip, the ServeRaid card and a Nvidia Titan?
The options are a c216 board to support USB3 and PCIe3 AND ECC
- Asus P8C-WS..more options, but less support. But more or less do not want this one.. but not rule it out yet.
- SuperMicro X9SAE
- SuperMicro X9SAE-V
The difference in those two boards are not that different, but just maybe enough to make it a hard decision regarding the lanes.
So the difference:
X9SAE-V
- 2x PCI-E 3.0 x8 in x16 slot
- 2x PCI-E 2.0 x4 (1 in x8)
- 2x PCI-E 2.0 x1 & 1x PCI-32bit 5V slots
X9SAE
- 1x PCI-E 3.0 x16 slot
- 2x PCI-E 2.0 x4 (1 in x8)
- 2x PCI-E 2.0 x1 & 1x PCI-32bit 5V slots
So far.. it seems that the X9SAE (without the - V) would be the best option. Question is.. is it? or doesn't it matter too much??
It was a whitebox for ESXi running various vm's.
The thing is, if I do not get another case/motherboard, I cannot really use it anymore at home. At the moment,.. I have nothing really to game on or use as a bit heavier machine than a Macbook Air.
so I reckon this stuff can be transformed to a nice workstation.
Before I close down, I will buy a Nvidia Titan for cuda processing and gaming. So Prefer a nice troughput on the PCIe lanes.
The thing is,..there's a IBM Serveraid 1015 left. This runs on a PCIe 8 slot. Don't know if it actually uses all the bandwith itself. I've got 4 SSD's.. probably running 3... and 4x 3TB WD RED's...
My problem is the following... which board shall I get to use ECC memory, the Xeon chip, the ServeRaid card and a Nvidia Titan?
The options are a c216 board to support USB3 and PCIe3 AND ECC
- Asus P8C-WS..more options, but less support. But more or less do not want this one.. but not rule it out yet.
- SuperMicro X9SAE
- SuperMicro X9SAE-V
The difference in those two boards are not that different, but just maybe enough to make it a hard decision regarding the lanes.
So the difference:
X9SAE-V
- 2x PCI-E 3.0 x8 in x16 slot
- 2x PCI-E 2.0 x4 (1 in x8)
- 2x PCI-E 2.0 x1 & 1x PCI-32bit 5V slots
X9SAE
- 1x PCI-E 3.0 x16 slot
- 2x PCI-E 2.0 x4 (1 in x8)
- 2x PCI-E 2.0 x1 & 1x PCI-32bit 5V slots
So far.. it seems that the X9SAE (without the - V) would be the best option. Question is.. is it? or doesn't it matter too much??