February 12, 20242 yr I think Ive been running the below for about 5 years now. I have had a few small issues, nothing catastrophic. Motherboard is throwing a 0200: Failure Fixed Disk. System also randomly crashes on occasion (rarely, every couple of months for the last few years. I think I have tied it to times when it was under heavy load and potentially overheating). Primary use is a Media server (Plex), storage, VPN. I do have multiple plex streams running and transcoding, some outside of my network. I notice issues/buffering whenever something is trying to play 10-bit x265 sources. Current System - GIGABYTE GA-7TESM, Version 00000001 Phoenix Technologies LTD, Version F9 2x Intel® Xeon® CPU X5650 @ 2.67GHz 12 GB ECC DDR3 Potential Upgrade - Desktop Motherboard, LGA 2011-3 Dual Socket Desktop Mainboard for Intel x99 Chipset, Support 8 DDR4 DIMM(Single Memory 16G), 6 SATA3.0 Port and 2 NVME M.2 Port (Here) 2x Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4 (Here) 4x8GB RAM DDR4 2400 (Here) Prices seem pretty good. CPU looks to be a major upgrade, as is the RAM. Biggest question is the motherboard. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
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