February 5, 201610 yr Heya! Just helped a buddy build a new desktop and in exchange I got to salvage whatever from his old machine. Got a 2600(non-K) and 8GB of RAM for my troubles (mobo was fried, rest was junky). I've been trying to get my dad to buy a NAS as he's taken up photography and needs a fair amount for space to store RAWs and keep them protected. I figure I might as well use these parts to build him an unraid box and we can do off-site backups to each other. Anyway, I'm not too familiar with the Sandy bridge era stuff as I was rocking Conroe until Ivy. It looks like the Q67 chipset is what I want, right? it seems to be the only one that supports vPro, but it also seems that the Z68 has more PCIE slots. Any thoughts or suggestions? Thanks!
February 5, 201610 yr All Ivi Bridge chipsets also are compatible, same socket. B75 Q75 Q77 H77 Z75 Z77
February 5, 201610 yr Author That is awesome! Thanks so much. Seems like the Q77 is the only one that supports vPro? WTF intel? i always thought vt-d was a cpu level limitation.
February 5, 201610 yr That is awesome! Thanks so much. Seems like the Q77 is the only one that supports vPro? WTF intel? i always thought vt-d was a cpu level limitation. The mobo is very much part of the Vt-D equation. It also has to support it in addition to the CPU.
February 5, 201610 yr Author Yeah, either I go with a Q77 and use the non-ecc RAM I have, or get a C-series chipset Supermicro board and have to buy ECC RAM. Not ideal, but i'll make something work. Dont regret buying AMD for my server now lol
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