i personally haven't had issues with my SuperMicro board. The biggest issues have been related to AMD/nVidia specific issues. The asrock motherboard you linked is not compatible wit hthe E5-2670 cpu though. The one you linked is a Socket R3, you need Socket R for the E5-2670v1.
On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 10:28 AM Tobias Geiger <tobias.gei...@vido.info> wrote: > Hi, > > great suggestions - thanks so far! > > Seems i have the choice between > - this really good price/value E5-2670 Dual Xeon and this board: > > http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=EP2C612D8#Specifications > (the Supermicro one is at least here in Germany much more expensive - > and the Asrock has more SATA3 Ports... - do you see any difficulties in > comparison with the Supermicroboard you mentioned?) > > oooor > - i7-6700K Intel Skylake with a board like this : > https://www.asus.com/de/Motherboards/Q170M-C/specifications/ (Q Chipset > should ensure VTD funcionality i hope!) > > > so basicaly the choice between 16 cores with the dual xeon but with a > max of 3.3Ghz - or 4 cores "only" with the Skylake i7 but 4.2Ghz... > puh. hard one. games rarly scale well on multiple cpus, but OTOH this > is/will be changing with time and newer games... but a rapid > single-core-performance is always handy for the tasks that are not > threadable... > > now im really stuck in my descision-finding-process :) > i'll think about it for the weekend > > if you see any omg-dont-buy-that-it-wont-work issues - please tell me! > > Thanks and Greetings > Tobias > > > > > Am 12.05.2016 17:23, schrieb Ryan Flagler: > > 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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