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Where are you finding retail 2687ws for 250? I'll buy two ASAP
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Yeah, I wondered that too as I read his post.Where are you finding retail 2687ws for 250? I'll buy two ASAP
Also running ESXi 6.0U2 on a S2600CP with a Radeon 7870 passed through, works great!
I bought two of those boards from Natex, they work great, bought four e5-2670 and ram from ebay.
These are the CPU heatsinks and fans I used, and they work great. 17$ each Why pay more if you do not have to.
RAIJINTEK AIDOS, 4 6mm Heat-Pipe, 92mm PWM Fan, Compact Size CPU Cooler, Multiple Mounting Kits For Intel & AMD-Newegg.com
Ah cheers, good to hear some feedback.
I forgot to mention I'm in Melbourne Australia. So $17 USD on newegg quickly turns into ~$80 AUD here once you currency convert and ship it.
Prices I mentioned were from PC Case Gear and Scorpion Technology. Two local 'premium' computer retailers.
Melbourne represent, I'm from there as well!
I'm running 3 of these 2670s and have a very similar setup in a Fractal XL with the Natex offering, which I'm using for my home ESX lab. I've found the be quiet coolers to be great and have put them in some other builds now too. Unfortunately (and I"m ashamed to admit it) I didn't end up worrying too much about the support of the board, so will be interested to see what you do regarding female/female standoffs.
Just out of interest, is anyone using the 2670 in their main system? I've got another 2670/x79 setup which duties are mostly running NappIt (VM under ESX) which I'm contemplating swapping out with my current system (X58/5650 combo) as the X79 board is better at the expense of a non-overclockable chip (my 5650 sits at 4gh comfortably). I haven't bothered swapping them so far as I think the performance will be negligible, and am hoping for a decent upgrade when Skylake-E or Zen hit.
Historical reasons mainly. I had been running nappit with a raid card presented through to nappit via IOMMU up until about 3 months ago (originally I wanted ZFS served out of a VM). That system was pretty limited RAM wise and obviously I couldn't cluster it with my new Intel system (Natex dual proc build), so I ditched it and migrated the services over to X79 which went okay. However, it's not good as a Vmware NFS target but CIFS is great, so that's what its using at the moment. I'm in the process of building a completely stand alone storage system (likely to use Freenas, but that could change) and once I've moved the data off I might see what's out there.Haha, yep. I'm over in the south east burbs.
What made you go NappIt over something like openfiler, freenas, xpenology, unraid, etc?
I'm trying to work out what to do with my storage at the moment. I currently just have created ~2tb vmdk's on my 2 and 4tb disks, pass them to Windows 2012 VM. Running a storage pool JBOD and share the data out. It's just tv/movies. Nothing critical so I'm not toooooo fussed on reliability. Got a basic LSI 9211-8i card coming now. Was thinking of passing the whole card through to a VM and running all my storage disks off that. Maybe into something like freenas or the like as mentioned (or maybe just Windows 2016 if I'm being lazy).
I'm about to pull the pin on Intel S2600CP2J from Natex, 2 x 2670 cpu's and 128gb RAM. Trying to find something around that has SSI EEB support is fairing pretty hard. Will be ESXi server, sits on the floor in the home theatre room, so trying to keep it as quiet as possible. Short lists of part ideas so far, any advice or recommendations would be much appreciated;
Cases:
Fractal Define XL (seems to fit, missing a couple of standoffs) - $179 @ PCCG
Phanteks Enthoo Pro (cheaper, full ssi eeb support, open air on front with a fan, so worried about noise) - $139 @ PCCG
Phanteks Enthoo Primo Ultimate (looks awesome, full sse eep support, 5 included fans, expensive) - $309 @PCCG
PSU:
EVGA GQ 750w (modular, gold efficiency, 'quality' components, 2 x ETS connectors for power) - $149 @ PCCG
Silverstone Strider Gold S 750w (modular, gold efficiency, 'quality' components, 2 x ETS connectors for power) - $136 @ Scorptec
CPU Cooling:
Be Quiet! Pure Rock CPU Cooler (cheap, quietish) - $49/each @ PCCG
Cryorig H5 Ultimate CPU Cooler (more exy, quieter, better cooling possible RAM clearance issues???) - $69/each @ PCCG
Cryorig H5 Universal CPU Cooler (more exy, quieter, average cooling, small form factor ie. should clear ram) - $69/each @ PCCG
I also grab one of the LSI SAS 9211-8i cards from Natex. Will use to pass the cards (and all 'data' disks) through to a VM for file server use
Ohhhhh very interested in this, had a go with a few different setup on ESXi 5.5 and always had some niggly problems with the setup. Would LOVE to integrate my HTPC into a VM again.
Do you get any issues with the passthrough?
I assume you're using as a gaming VM or something?
Pish posh, I bought my whole shit for less then your CPU. Lenovo S30 Mobo, E5-2680 and 32gb of ram, 250 bucks.
Engineering Samplehow'd you get an 2690 v3 for 300 bucks?!