cyruspy

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  1. Something like the 850w version of the one I posted?
  2. There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with that PSU. It is a Gold-certified, mid-capacity PSU. It is VERY well priced for its class, looking at some benchmarks it seems to come out with some top performance AND by reports appear to indicate it to be very quiet. Add a whooping 10 Year warranty well, what more do you want? Sounds good enough, I'm trying to validate if I'm missing something here
  3. Do you really think 1.2KW are needed?. From what I understand, underusing the PSU is also an issue for efficiency and it more than doubles the price of the other one. Is it going to provide something more besides capacity?
  4. Hi!, can someone suggest a PSU to cover this configuration: 2 x Xeon E5-2670 1 x Intel S2600CP motherboard 128GB RAM, PC3-12800 2 x 100GB Sandisk SSD drives 15 x 4TB WD Red 3 x CSE-M35T-1B 5-in-3 disk cages 2 x Dell PERC H310 SAS HBA 1 x Nvidia GTX 760 or Quadro K4200 GPU I'm thinking going with something like this one: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IKDETOW/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=UYKTV7QRHWBB&coliid=I3A4U5JY61A439&psc=1 Edit: Still not sure about GPU
  5. Anyone managed to buy from Natex using a CC from outside the US?
  6. What "style" should I be looking for?
  7. This *might* be problematic, depending on the number of drives you go with. Generally, PSUs with only 1 12v rail are recommended on these boards. If you're careful with spreading the load out evenly, it might not be an issue, but frankly, based on the limited reviews I could find on the internet for this PSU, if buying a new PSU is possible, I would. http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story4&reid=109 : Some reading around tells me your PSU is a rebadged version of this one. Also, keep in mind that the dual Xeons can pull over 100w a piece at max load (but substantially less the majority of the time. Especially since it takes *a lot* to get them over 50% usage) I've been seeing some really good deals lately on some EVGA PSUs. They generally get great reviews, and I've seen them for under $US100 on sale. Well, here are some pictures of the PSU: https://www.tecnogaming.com/2010/07/sentey-700w-erp-ss/ Well, I would rather not buy a new PSU as this was supposed to be a cheap build, but if I pull the trigger on the dual E5 setup, I might need to add another PSU to the mix.. EDIT: I'm planning to plug 2 x 120GB SSD disks (coming from decommissioned family laptops) to onboard SATA ports for OS in R1, and 5 x 4TB WD Red drives to start, but I'm already adding 2 x 8 ports HBAs and 3 x 5-in-3 disk cages to accomodate 15 data disks max.
  8. I couldn't find anything on a case called "DR-Hank CK-1022". I did find another case called CK-1022. Is this it? The EEB standard is almost the same as Extended-ATX (EATX), size-wise, except that not all the mounting holes line up. The case I linked to above does support EATX, so if yours is the same, then you should be ok. I've read several posts where people have put an EEB board in an EATX case, so I know it's possible, and not too difficult. I believe they either drilled new post holes, or just inserted standoffs to provide support. You may want to google around first, though. It'll certainly pull more than 30w, but people seem to be getting varied results. I would sit down with a drink and a snack, and wade through the 8000 page post in the good deals section regarding this deal, and most of your questions will be answered . Personally, on my system, I think I'm getting around 90w at idle, but I have a bunch of stuff plugged in to the same place, so I need to do some rough math to subtract the draw of all the other stuff, so 90w (after math) may not be perfectly accurate. Yup, it seems to be the same frame reselled with different brands: http://www.ocia.net/reviews/asys/page3.shtml https://www.balaodainformatica.com.br/Produto/6836/Gabinete-DR-Hank-Super-Server-com-cooler-de-220mm- I ate the 46 pages of the deal, there are mixed reports for 2 sockets, around 70-90w with Windows 2012, 230w with ESXi, what are you actually running on your setup to reach 90w?, there's no mention of noise besides running Supermicro cases... I hope the passive heatsinks are enough...
  9. Does it make any difference for your use case?, I think that for a home lab, more is better.
  10. Any final numbers on power consumption and noise level of the Natex combos?
  11. Adding info on currently available PSU.
  12. How can I validate the case EEB compatibility?, any requirement for the PSU?, again I'm repurposing one I already had, it's the newest component so far
  13. I'm currently repurposing old hardware that I had lying around, the case is a DR-Hank CK-1022 which is really big but I'm not sure about EEB though. For the time being added the guts of my old HTPC (AN-M2HD+Athlon BE-2400+6GB) RAM, which can handle fine NAS functions, but will fall short on the virtualization department. Without operating system, it consumes around 60w when on. I was looking for something like this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Supermicro-MBD-X9SCM-O-Intel-Xeon-E3-1220-3-1-GHz-32-GB-Kingston-ECC-RAM-/301900671168?hash=item464aaea8c0:g:ZPIAAOSwLN5WiBcr It's missing IPMI but will consume around 30w while idle and is pretty silent, IPMI variants are available. Any idea of how much power will the dual socket E5 + 128GB setup consume?, noise level?, I live in a small apartment and WAF is important. I'm currently waiting for 2 x H310 SAS HBAs and 3 x CSE-M35TQB cages to finish building the box.
  14. Does it make sense to buy a second hand Xeon E3 + Supermicro combo today? . I'm willing to add 32GB of RAM to the mix and use that machine as NAS and light virtualization Lab. That second hand combo draws little power and is as cheap as a new Supermicro motherboard. Going with new/current Supermicro/E3v3 combo drives investment to x2 or x3 of the cost.