Hello everyone! I am thinking about building myself a proper workstation soon and just need a little help picking the board and HSFs.
I am currently looking at this board:
ASUS Z9PE-D16/2L SSI EEB Server Motherboard Dual LGA 2011
It seems to have pretty good ratings compared to the other boards. Is this a pretty good board? I have built many systems over the years, but never a dual-socket setup so this is new territory for me.
I am not going to be doing any kind of "mission/job critical" stuff on this system. The following is the rest of the build which is basically set in stone as what I want. Massive overkill, yes, but that is how I like it. My requirements are basically for it to handle anything I can throw at it CPU-wise and have it laugh back in my face.
Thanks in advance!
I am currently looking at this board:
ASUS Z9PE-D16/2L SSI EEB Server Motherboard Dual LGA 2011
It seems to have pretty good ratings compared to the other boards. Is this a pretty good board? I have built many systems over the years, but never a dual-socket setup so this is new territory for me.
I am not going to be doing any kind of "mission/job critical" stuff on this system. The following is the rest of the build which is basically set in stone as what I want. Massive overkill, yes, but that is how I like it. My requirements are basically for it to handle anything I can throw at it CPU-wise and have it laugh back in my face.
- Intel Xeon E5-2650 8-Core 2.0GHz Sandy Bridge-EP (I will get a second eventually)
- 32GB Kingston (4x8GB) DDR3-1600 ECC Registered RAM
- 64GB Crucial M4 SSD x 2 in RAID 0 for max performance (Don't need a lot of system storage as I have a file server)
- PNY NVIDIA Quadro 600 1GB (Won't be doing any CAD work, so this will be plenty)
- CHENBRO SR10769-CO 1.0mm SECC Pedestal High-End Server/Workstation Chassis
- Thermaltake TR2 TR-700 700W ATX 12V V2.3 & EPS 12V
Thanks in advance!
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