Hmm, so from my interpretation of the articles. ECC performance isn't much of a decrease compared to standard? As far as the reliability and the failure rates between both, it doesn't seem too bad for home use, but would be good to have since I'm a student with all sorts of files. I take it? The prices for it vary a lot just like standard.
The "summery" you should take away from the articles is that ECC memory is more reliable, has lower error rates, doesn't cost much different than consumer memory, and performs fine.
I've been thinking a lot. Perhaps I'll just go with a quad-core then and once it has some miles on it in a few years I'll upgrade to a six-core, hopefully they'll be more affordable or I'll have the career to pay no problem.
I have read though that the six-core works great, but may still "sweat" or work more compared to the Xeon.
I'm not sure I follow on the premise of the sweating processor. Xeons's and i7's are built with the same core architecture, on the same silicon/fab. When configured with similar core count and clock speeds they have the same performance.
I guess, I may go with the highly upgradeable Supermicro X10SRA-F since I'll have the option to put ECC RAM.
I would advise against buying a motherboard to have the "option" to go ECC memory, either do it, or don't do it up front...
i7-5820K+X99+non-ECC-UDIMM
E5-1620V3+C612+ECC-RDIMM
Any deviation from one of these configurations is more likely to run into compatibility problems. When Xeon's are placed on some X99 boards, there is limited ECC memory support, and when i7's are placed on (some) C612 boards there is support for non-ECC UDIMM's, but these are both haphazard configs that are going to have limited support. My advise is to build 100% on either side of the line, either go enthusiast platform 100% or go enterprise platform 100%. Avoid Hodgepodge.
Still curious as to which x99 board or top 5 or so boards would you suggest since I'll get more for the money? or which other 2 non-ECC builds?
Here's an example of doing this build on X99, and even taking advantage of the smaller mATX form factor options here:
PCPartPicker part list /
Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor ($384.99 @ Directron)
CPU Cooler: Zalman ZM-CNPS14X CPU Cooler ($36.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X99M-GAMING 5 Micro ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard ($262.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($209.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Crucial MX100 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($108.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Se 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($89.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: AMD FirePro W5100 4GB Video Card ($337.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: Corsair 350D MicroATX Mid Tower Case ($79.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($124.99 @ Amazon)
Total: $1636.90
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-01-20 12:40 EST-0500
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All X99 boards are "nice," however at this early stage in the life of X99 I would actually advise glancing at newegg/amazon reviews and avoid boards with any repeating problem showing up with many users. Obviously those kinks will get worked out with future revisions but for now that's about your best defense. There are a bunch of boards in the ~$200-250 range on mATX and ATX sizes that are pretty good value options. You could probably pick based on color preference and do well
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Also which liquid cooling kit would you suggest for the supermicro board or should I stick to a fan for the cpu? Thanks again for helping with my build.
If you'll note, in my original C612 build recommendation, there's a Silverstone AR01. That's a liquid heatpipe cooler with 3X8mm heatpipes well suited to high TDP CPUs. I DO recommend liquid for ALL builds whenever possible, but i recommend against systems which use a mechanical pumping method to move that liquid, as those systems come with nearly a dozen surface to surface seals which are all potential failure points that could leak. Then there's a issue of the potential for a pump failure, which leaves no passive dissipation capacity in place. Then there's the possibility of getting a noisy annoying pump. A Liquid heat-pipe has no surface to surface seals, the pumping action is actually driven by the heat it is dissipating, the only way it will ever leak is if it is the unfortunate victim of a computer hardware hate crime involving tiny assault weapons.
Pumped liquid cooling in the <$100 range isn't what it is cracked up to be. There's a heatpipe based cooler to match the performance of any <$100 AIOCLC when compared decibel for decibel, and those heatpipe coolers all have inherent advantages for reliability. I wouldn't bother with pumped liquid cooling unless the plan is to overclock an i7-5000 or FX-83XX/9000 to ~300W+ territory, and in those cases the only reason pumped liquid cooling takes over as the winner is that it affords the option to spread out that heat onto far more radiator than we could ever hang off a CPU socket. Anything less than a 280mm or 360mm AIOCLC or custom loop is just a pointless novelty that could be done better with heatpipes, and probably for less money.
I like heat-pipe coolers from Silverstone, Arctic Cooling, Noctua, Thermalright, Zalman, and Phanteks for use in desktop enthusiast/gaming/workstation computers.
. Uhmm, if you don't mind I'll have more frequent questions? Since I wont be looking up parts and info as much.
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