Looking to put together a system that will be my always-on system at home. That'll be my DDNS point, maybe DC, definitely virtualization server, gaming would be nice but I also do 3d CAD. My primary concern is speed and responsiveness, future proofing, and lots of cores for virtual machines. This will be my playground for all kinds of stuff I want to tinker with.
Every Xeon system I've been on feels laggy, very slow - no matter how awesome the specs are on paper. Is this a result of ECCram? Is it possible to run a couple Xeons without ECC memory? Would that even help?
What's the best chipset nowadays? Are there considerations between my two options, when it comes to virtualization, CAD, gaming?
Are there any Extended EATX mobos out there that are not geared towards gaming? They all seem to be filled almost exlclusively with x16 slots, and there are a lot of things i'd like to do with x1, x4, x8 PCIe slots. This is kind of the whole purpose of my build - I need lots of interfaces to be able to do stuff with my VMs
What would you do?
Every Xeon system I've been on feels laggy, very slow - no matter how awesome the specs are on paper. Is this a result of ECCram? Is it possible to run a couple Xeons without ECC memory? Would that even help?
What's the best chipset nowadays? Are there considerations between my two options, when it comes to virtualization, CAD, gaming?
Are there any Extended EATX mobos out there that are not geared towards gaming? They all seem to be filled almost exlclusively with x16 slots, and there are a lot of things i'd like to do with x1, x4, x8 PCIe slots. This is kind of the whole purpose of my build - I need lots of interfaces to be able to do stuff with my VMs
What would you do?