Wow, if it wasn't for the not-as-cheap motherboards and the lack of
recent features meant to boost performance (like NUMA and APIC-V, though
I can't say how effective those are in the real world), I'd probably go
for it as well. 300+ USD for a new mobo - especially when my current
setup doesn't have any noteworthy technical issues - starts making it a
bit hard to justify, though. Tempting indeed.
Tobias has no reason not to go for that setup either, since he could
just reuse his 16GBs of DDR3.
- Nicolas
On 2016-05-12 11:21, Alex Williamson wrote:
On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Ryan Flagler <ryan.flag...@gmail.com
<mailto: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.
_______________________________________________
vfio-users mailing list
vfio-users@redhat.com
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/vfio-users
_______________________________________________
vfio-users mailing list
vfio-users@redhat.com
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/vfio-users
