Given the following set of hardware, would you resume going to lga2011/ddr3 or stick with 1366 until moving to DDR4?
lga1366 gear:
- two SMP combos, one slightly damaged (some RAM slots not working)
- several single-processor combos (nagging me due to low RAM but nice for random things)
lga2011 gear:
- 2 pairs of CPUs (1x v1, 1x v2)
- 1 non-posting SMP board with SAS
- 2 new, expensive supermicro HSFs
I have to decide whether I want to ditch the 2011 gear as-is and get more 1366 or whether I move to 2011 (buying one of those cheap 2x2 barebones and one dual 2011 board with lots of I/O).
I originally wanted to move to 2011 to get USB2, faster SATA and SAS onboard. However, now I find myself using PCIe SAS controllers anyway, and PCIe USB3.0 cards, I am forced to use a couple of PCI cards (full height so they would be a pain to use with a PCIe->PCI adapters). For my applications a 3.6 GHz original i7 is very suitable.
On the other hand the money I would get for the 2011 CPUs is low and I have no idea whether the board is broken or I just have some local problem (PSU etc). But boards are expensive outside those 2x2 nonstandard barebones.
Random comments?
lga1366 gear:
- two SMP combos, one slightly damaged (some RAM slots not working)
- several single-processor combos (nagging me due to low RAM but nice for random things)
lga2011 gear:
- 2 pairs of CPUs (1x v1, 1x v2)
- 1 non-posting SMP board with SAS
- 2 new, expensive supermicro HSFs
I have to decide whether I want to ditch the 2011 gear as-is and get more 1366 or whether I move to 2011 (buying one of those cheap 2x2 barebones and one dual 2011 board with lots of I/O).
I originally wanted to move to 2011 to get USB2, faster SATA and SAS onboard. However, now I find myself using PCIe SAS controllers anyway, and PCIe USB3.0 cards, I am forced to use a couple of PCI cards (full height so they would be a pain to use with a PCIe->PCI adapters). For my applications a 3.6 GHz original i7 is very suitable.
On the other hand the money I would get for the 2011 CPUs is low and I have no idea whether the board is broken or I just have some local problem (PSU etc). But boards are expensive outside those 2x2 nonstandard barebones.
Random comments?