E5-2670 V1 rackmount build

[Magical Penguin]

I'm tempted by the article on the home page about E5-2670 V1s hitting $100.

What would I combine them with to build a 1U or 2U rackmount system? Preferably things that I can pick up used and quite cheap. Although if the price is similar between used and new, I prefer to pay slightly more for new.

More RAM the better (within reason), and disk performance is important to me too.

I would end up colocating this system.

 

[T_Minus]

2U = SM 216 2.5" x 24 hot swap w/platinum PSU & caddys ~250-300$ shipped

Motherboard.. TONS of options.. 10Gig, LSI onboard, 16 to 24 dimms, etc...

used will be 50% or more off retail

 

[Magical Penguin]

2U = SM 216 2.5" x 24 hot swap w/platinum PSU & caddys ~250-300$ shipped

Motherboard.. TONS of options.. 10Gig, LSI onboard, 16 to 24 dimms, etc...

used will be 50% or more off retail

Thank you.

Can you or someone else give me a few model numbers that you like on the motherboards?

Also should I be buying used or new memory for this? Is used memory significantly cheaper?

 

[T_Minus]

Used DDR3 = cheap cheap, way way cheaper than new/retail.

As far as motherboard goes... do you want onboard anything? (10Gig? 4x1Gig? LSI Raid? LSI HBA?)

 

[Magical Penguin]

10Gig with RJ45 would be nice since that's what I have on my D-1540. (I'm using a gigabit switch until 10-gigabit switches come down in price).

I prefer software raid to hardware raid. So If I can get enough SATA ports (preferably SATA-3), then I guess I don't need any LSI stuff? Or is the motherboard without LSI not enough for several drives?

 

[Magical Penguin]

If someone can name a few motherboards to keep an eye out for on EBay that would be great.

Maybe start with what is likely to be the cheapest or most common find.

Thanks!

 

[sloop]

try searching for LGA2011 including in description

 

[RobertFontaine]

Plenty of 1P options. The 2P motherboards are often the same price for V1/V2 as V3.

It's easier to shop if you figure out what you need.