I have a working Hyper-V system that I am tinkering with. Will likely move over to ESXi one of these days but for now it's Hyper-V.
The system is a dual x5670, Asus Z8PE-D18, an assortment of SSDs (nothing fancy, some 120s, some 240s, an Intel X25-E for ZFS cache, etc...), two WD Red 3TB drives, and 72GB of DDR3 ECC, in a Corsair 900D. [It'd be nice to transition to 8GB dimms...]
I've thought about maybe going to a dual 2ghz or so (only speed I can likely afford) E5 XEON route, (E5 2620 maybe?) and salvage my ram, but will the drop in frequency compared to my 2.8ghz old-gen Xeons be too much?
I'd like to keep the single, large box config, just not sure where to go here. Hence I am restless. The setup works, but I'm sort of bored.
PCI-e 3.0 would be nice for eventually going SAS 12gbps and the like.
I guess the bottom line here is: help talk me out of the upgrade, or do you think there's still a market for dual xeons and the mobo?
The system is a dual x5670, Asus Z8PE-D18, an assortment of SSDs (nothing fancy, some 120s, some 240s, an Intel X25-E for ZFS cache, etc...), two WD Red 3TB drives, and 72GB of DDR3 ECC, in a Corsair 900D. [It'd be nice to transition to 8GB dimms...]
I've thought about maybe going to a dual 2ghz or so (only speed I can likely afford) E5 XEON route, (E5 2620 maybe?) and salvage my ram, but will the drop in frequency compared to my 2.8ghz old-gen Xeons be too much?
I'd like to keep the single, large box config, just not sure where to go here. Hence I am restless. The setup works, but I'm sort of bored.
PCI-e 3.0 would be nice for eventually going SAS 12gbps and the like.
I guess the bottom line here is: help talk me out of the upgrade, or do you think there's still a market for dual xeons and the mobo?