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Hi,
I've been looking into making a new server to replace my old EH490 windows home server.
I was planning on making a whitebox sever, and was considering waiting for Devils Canyon, but I have a feeling there is no point because it probably won't be much of an upgrade over my 2600k @ 4.9 GHZ.
This had me thinking of purchasing someone's old 2600k system off craigslist for a few hundred and overclocking, stuffing 32/64 GB of ram in the system and calling it a day. I know the 2600k doesn't support VT-D but I figured the extra performance from the overclock would make up that difference easily.
My question is, is VT-D really needed? The intended use for the server will be
WHS Backup
Asterisk PBX
XBMC/PVR/PLEX server with max 3 streams (usually just 1)
Work client/server test vms which will run from time to time.
The only place I could see VT-D helping is when the server is acting as the HTPC. I do have 4k TV, but there is no content so I don't care about that right now.
Any suggestions would really be appreciated.
The other options I was considering was a white box AMD 8 core, but since hey are so much slower than the Intel counterparts, I pretty much disbanded that idea.
I've been looking into making a new server to replace my old EH490 windows home server.
I was planning on making a whitebox sever, and was considering waiting for Devils Canyon, but I have a feeling there is no point because it probably won't be much of an upgrade over my 2600k @ 4.9 GHZ.
This had me thinking of purchasing someone's old 2600k system off craigslist for a few hundred and overclocking, stuffing 32/64 GB of ram in the system and calling it a day. I know the 2600k doesn't support VT-D but I figured the extra performance from the overclock would make up that difference easily.
My question is, is VT-D really needed? The intended use for the server will be
WHS Backup
Asterisk PBX
XBMC/PVR/PLEX server with max 3 streams (usually just 1)
Work client/server test vms which will run from time to time.
The only place I could see VT-D helping is when the server is acting as the HTPC. I do have 4k TV, but there is no content so I don't care about that right now.
Any suggestions would really be appreciated.
The other options I was considering was a white box AMD 8 core, but since hey are so much slower than the Intel counterparts, I pretty much disbanded that idea.