Yep, that's the one. Dirt cheap! I was able to snag a used SuperMicro X9DR7-LN4F dual-socket motherboard and threw 2 of them in there. I don't have much of an issue giving my VMs enough CPU. :) ECC DDR3 Registered memory is relatively cheap on ebay too.
On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 10:21 AM Alex Williamson < alex.l.william...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Ryan Flagler <ryan.flag...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I know Alex has recommended the E5 series processors/motherboards for the >> best compatibility. There are 2 versions of motherboards that support that >> right now. Socket R and Socket R3. Obviously E5 series processors are not >> very affordable brand new; however, the market is currently flooded with >> server pulled E5-2670 CPUs. They can be easily found for $60 on ebay. These >> CPUs work on Socket R motherboards. Additionally, these motherboards will >> still support DDR3 memory which is cheaper to acquire than DDR4 as well. >> >> That's where I'd start if I was you. Obviously there could always be >> issues with 1 manufacturer to another, but hopefully that's a starting >> place. >> > > Nice tip! You're referring to Sandy-Bridge EP, right? > > > http://ark.intel.com/products/64595/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2670-20M-Cache-2_60-GHz-8_00-GTs-Intel-QPI > > 8-core, hmmm that's tempting. >
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