I know and it breaks my heart to be in a rush - but since it is a company buy (have a small company myself besides my job) and if i don't do it by december 31 st - I will loose a lot of benefits, since I will be personally taxable of the profits :) (Denmark over 50% tax).
In short if i buy now...
@gigatexal
I was unclear, got pretty hooked on the board you showed me - if i can get at the price i saw plus the 2 x 2670 - I will be a happy wannabe nerd.
So found a few shops I need to call tomorrow, if that works out, I can order that right away.
The reason it needing to work out, is that...
@gigatexal
Not going that route.
Just looked and i need min. 64gig memory, but limits me to 32 on each right (they dont share?)
Might need to source some used, because new is 235 euro pr 16 gig....
@gigatexal
Sorry - was jusst away for a bit - On SSD i'm thinking enough to run the VM on them, so a couple 2 (to 3). normal disks about 5-6.
I didn't buy the 2670 yet, but found a company who sells them from new (or it looks that way). Plan is to call him tomorrow and have a talk.
@gea
The...
@gigatexal
Thank you so much for explaining - I'm hooked and found a seller of the CPU on amazon at a fair price.
But i'm also as mentioned before out of my comfort zone, can you recommend a motherboard to go? (maybe even a dual socket :)
If you do not have a receomendation, is there anything...
Thank you all for replying so far!
I think my knowledge of CPU's is going to be clear in my question, because the debate has clearly taken a turn towards the PLEX part of it - it the PLEX CPU usage so much higher than all the other things mentioned? (streaming will be BD rips to mainly tv...
@rubylaser
Perfect, that mean i was right to around the D-1540 or above - I would like to be able to have some power to spare when streaming :)
@gigatexal I agree, that i could pick up quite a bit used, but I would prefer new - especially CPU and motherboard, since the new gen also uses less...
Hi guys,
Hope you can give me some advice, first post in here
To be clear, I don't expect you to give me an exact build, but the different Xeon models and boards are a jungle and not sure how much power i need.
Looking for a server to have at home, I do a little website development and...
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