February 16, 20242 yr Not sure on what to put my money on. have about 1000$ budget per my signature below have Xeon 2xE5-2670 (32thrds) MOBO: Supermicro x9Dai dual CPU board c602 MEM: 64GB (8x8GB) Samsung DDR3 1600 Ecc Reg I need memory more than I need CPU speed. minimum 64GB, even more. running 3 VMs (OSX + WIN11) + Radarr + Sonarr , no games. should I stick to some x10 or x11 XENON supermicro board? find some 2nd hand CPUs and memory or go with some GIGABYTE one CPU board ? Intel AMD ? Edited February 16, 20242 yr by dadarara update
February 20, 20242 yr Lot's of used servers out there with v3/v4 Xeon's for very reasonable prices. If 'quiet' is a thing, get a tower over a rack mount... but just a thought. I was in the same boat as you a month ago. My X9 was getting... flakey... and had replaced it once already, keeping my little Xeon E3-1230v2 alive. But came to the conclusion that it wasn't keeping up with what I was asking of it, so I stepped into a R730xd, 2x E5-2660v4, 256gb RAM, 8TB SAS drives, SAS cache, yada, yada... I overkilled this one, but I don't want to replace this for several years. And the nice thing was that it was all under your budget (and mine). Food for thought...
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