- Feb 13, 2014
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Evening, everyone!
Back looking for a couple more opinions on the next part of my little system overhaul. Last thing that happened was my buying an Asus PB287 4K display, and the thing is beautiful... I'll never be able to go back to 1080p. The poor little GTX 760 has its hands full, but it's doing admirably until I can pack a GTX 980 in there.
My current system is a Xeon E3-1230v3 on an MSI H97I-AC motherboard with 2x8GB of memory, an EVGA GTX 760, on a Seasonic M12II-620W power supply.
It's been pretty reliable so far, but there have been a couple issues here and there. I'm rebuilding this into a Fractal Define R4 which I already have, but can't decide on a motherboard - I'm going to be hosting some very mission-critical information for our engineering team when I get back to the university, so I need something that will be rock solid, which is why I'm looking at ASRock's C226-WS board, or something on one of Intel's C22x chipsets... maybe SuperMicro's X10SAT if I can find the money. The problem is that I hope to run two 980s in the future, and would REALLY like to have at least 4 lanes of PCIe (either generation) left to handle an HP SmartArray P812 SAS RAID controller for storage purposes.
Now, I can buy a REALLY nice Z97 motherboard for $200 also. Does anyone have any recommendations for a dead-reliable motherboard to run a Xeon E3 on, that can also run two 980s in SLI? I've considered just buying an MSI Z97 SLI-Plus and buying a used ProLiant DL385 G5P from eBay, but 2U servers were NOT meant to run quietly.
Any thoughts?
Much appreciated!
Back looking for a couple more opinions on the next part of my little system overhaul. Last thing that happened was my buying an Asus PB287 4K display, and the thing is beautiful... I'll never be able to go back to 1080p. The poor little GTX 760 has its hands full, but it's doing admirably until I can pack a GTX 980 in there.
My current system is a Xeon E3-1230v3 on an MSI H97I-AC motherboard with 2x8GB of memory, an EVGA GTX 760, on a Seasonic M12II-620W power supply.
It's been pretty reliable so far, but there have been a couple issues here and there. I'm rebuilding this into a Fractal Define R4 which I already have, but can't decide on a motherboard - I'm going to be hosting some very mission-critical information for our engineering team when I get back to the university, so I need something that will be rock solid, which is why I'm looking at ASRock's C226-WS board, or something on one of Intel's C22x chipsets... maybe SuperMicro's X10SAT if I can find the money. The problem is that I hope to run two 980s in the future, and would REALLY like to have at least 4 lanes of PCIe (either generation) left to handle an HP SmartArray P812 SAS RAID controller for storage purposes.
Now, I can buy a REALLY nice Z97 motherboard for $200 also. Does anyone have any recommendations for a dead-reliable motherboard to run a Xeon E3 on, that can also run two 980s in SLI? I've considered just buying an MSI Z97 SLI-Plus and buying a used ProLiant DL385 G5P from eBay, but 2U servers were NOT meant to run quietly.
Any thoughts?
Much appreciated!
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