Hi Everyone, I'm hoping you can help me make some decisions!
I'm building a home server and can't decide between the two builds – I've decided to go with ECC memory as I want to start getting serious about web/app development and want somewhere that I can host my projects as a dev environment. I've sort of convinced myself I need ECC but I know that the only people who really NEED it are banks, the scientific community payment platforms etc..
But I seem to have convinced myself I need/WANT ECC and I do like idea of stability (24/7 operation) so right now ECC is on the cards which makes my build about 200/300 more expensive as I need to get boards that support it and XEONs.
My main questions is should I go with the X99 (DDR4) or the P9D WS (DDR3) – both support ECC. The chips are on par, the E3 Xeon is slightly faster and has on board graphics – I'm not going to bother with a graphics card just yet if I go the P9D WS route – the E5 build needs a graphics card.
Here are the builds:
Build 1 DDR3 ECC
Asus P9D WS $349
Kingston 2x8GB $236
XEON 1246 v3 $406
Toshiba 4tb $189
Toshiba 4tb $197
Design R5 $159
Corsair 550W CSM $139
SSD Samsung 250gb $158
Total $1833
Build 2 DDR4 ECC
Asrock X99 Extreme 4 $299
Intel XEON E5-1620V3 3.50GHZ $418
Crucial 8GB RDIMM x 2 $343
Toshiba 4tb $189
Toshiba 4tb $197
Design R5 $159
Corsair 550W CSM $139
SSD Samsung 250gb $158
1G GT 740 Gigabyte GDDR5 $99
Total $2001
Anyway, all advice is welcome. I know I could go with a Z97 + Xeon 1246 v3 + 16GB of non ECC ram and I'd probably never complain but it wouldn't have ECC.
What do you think? Both machines will be pretty powerful and should keep me going for 3 to 5 years.
Thanks!
And I'll be running an ARCHLinux environment with a VM for Windows 7.
I'm building a home server and can't decide between the two builds – I've decided to go with ECC memory as I want to start getting serious about web/app development and want somewhere that I can host my projects as a dev environment. I've sort of convinced myself I need ECC but I know that the only people who really NEED it are banks, the scientific community payment platforms etc..
But I seem to have convinced myself I need/WANT ECC and I do like idea of stability (24/7 operation) so right now ECC is on the cards which makes my build about 200/300 more expensive as I need to get boards that support it and XEONs.
My main questions is should I go with the X99 (DDR4) or the P9D WS (DDR3) – both support ECC. The chips are on par, the E3 Xeon is slightly faster and has on board graphics – I'm not going to bother with a graphics card just yet if I go the P9D WS route – the E5 build needs a graphics card.
Here are the builds:
Build 1 DDR3 ECC
Asus P9D WS $349
Kingston 2x8GB $236
XEON 1246 v3 $406
Toshiba 4tb $189
Toshiba 4tb $197
Design R5 $159
Corsair 550W CSM $139
SSD Samsung 250gb $158
Total $1833
Build 2 DDR4 ECC
Asrock X99 Extreme 4 $299
Intel XEON E5-1620V3 3.50GHZ $418
Crucial 8GB RDIMM x 2 $343
Toshiba 4tb $189
Toshiba 4tb $197
Design R5 $159
Corsair 550W CSM $139
SSD Samsung 250gb $158
1G GT 740 Gigabyte GDDR5 $99
Total $2001
Anyway, all advice is welcome. I know I could go with a Z97 + Xeon 1246 v3 + 16GB of non ECC ram and I'd probably never complain but it wouldn't have ECC.
What do you think? Both machines will be pretty powerful and should keep me going for 3 to 5 years.
Thanks!
And I'll be running an ARCHLinux environment with a VM for Windows 7.