I'm considering the Asus P9D-E/4L. More expandability for PCI devices. My only complaint is the propritary PIKE slot.
I looked at this board and decided against it because it uses c224 chipset. I am looking into the c226 chipset based motherboards. I am open to using a ATX board if the choice is compelling.I'm considering the Asus P9D-E/4L. More expandability for PCI devices. My only complaint is the propritary PIKE slot.
I use a lot of Kingston memory. Double check their online compatibility list but should be OK. I just checked my Amazon account and have ordered more than a few of these: Kingston KVR16E11K4/322. Kingston KVR16E11K4/32 which based on a newegg review is compatible.
The haswell PSU compatibility issue is only for certain very low power sleep modes, which you can turn off in the bios and also are likely to never be used or needed by a 24/7 server.A question on power supply for the Intel Haswell Xeon. I remember reading in the past that a lot of power supplies having issues with Haswell cpu. Is there any recommended power supply for Haswell Xeon. What would be a minimum recommended power supply that I should use. I will be having a optical blu-ray drive, 4 3.5" hdd and 2.5" ssd. I can always do away without the optical drive and add another hdd. I was thinking all of these would require something around 450-500W and to be on the safe side get something around 750W.
If I can go with something like 450W power supply that would be perfect. The only reason I went higher was because on many of the lower wattage PSU I found that they had close to 4 sata power connectors. If I went to 6 sata power connectors most of the well rated PSU on newegg are of higher wattage.The haswell PSU compatibility issue is only for certain very low power sleep modes, which you can turn off in the bios and also are likely to never be used or needed by a 24/7 server.
For a non gamer-GPU single socket server 750W is massive overkill, but this doesn't surprise me as most people waaaaaay over-spec their builds. (doesn't help that many no-name powersupplies are under-spec and/or garbage and even good ones only got efficient more recently)
Even 450W would support quite a few hard drives, the xeon+board+ram won't break 100W at full stream. (cpu is 84W heat with power quite close, a lot of the board vrms got moved to the chip and ram is like <2W/dimm)