Inter Xeon X3430

[tobeelliott]

Ive been wanting to build a home nas and to save money i planned on building it myself. A lot of people recommended using ECC memory so i decided im going to get a xeon X3430 but cant find supported motherboards. most people say that most p55 and h55 mobo's will work so wuld this one be ok? https://www.ebay.com/itm/ASUS-P7H55-M-BM5275-Motherboard-ATX-Socket-LGA1156-DDR3-32GB-I-O-Shield-Tested/263623253929?hash=item3d612b9fa9:g:Ri0AAOSwl4Va2uh2 or is there another one around the same price that will work or a cheap or one for the same price that would with ecc memory like this one https://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-PowerEdge-T310-Motherboard-2P9X9-LGA-1156-Socket-H-DDR3-with-Xeon-X3450/173273324212?epid=24011369423&hash=item2857e51ab4:g:2bMAAOSw0qVansqo

 

[william p]

The sweet spot for budget workstations right now is the LGA1366 Dell T3500 with X58 chipset. 4 core/8 thread Nehalem Xeons are dirt cheap W3570 being a good one.
It also supports 6 core/12 thread Westmeres/Gulftown, and 4 core 8 Thread Westmere EP which makes it future proof also. 3 channel DDR3 ECC RAM up to 24GB. 1333 speed if you get the faster CPUs, and run 3 RAM modules. Built in RAID support, dual GPU slots and other high end features like hyper threading allow it to perform just about anything you would need.
A Dell T3400 will do what you're asking. LGA775 Xeon, and DDR2-ECC RAM. It's BTX form factor so the $12 MB won't work w/o the Dell case ETC.
The X34xx xeons are LGA775 so most aftermarket MB support them, but they won't support ECC RAM and maybe not RAID mirroring either.

 

[faalin]

I picked up a few HP DL 380 gen 6 servers for around $200 a piece, just had to add HDD and an OS. Holds 8 drives so 2 drives are in raid 1 for the OS and 6 drives are in raid 5 for storage.

In all i think i have about $500 in each server, dual X5570, 32GB, 8x 2TB drives, had server 2008 R2 laying around but could have used win7.