david11129 Posted July 30, 2018 Share Posted July 30, 2018 I just bought this motherboard when I saw it's almost half off. I'm planning on picking up some Ivy bridge Xeons from ebay later this week. This is a big motherboard, make sure you have a case that it will fit in. I'm going to try and put it into an rpc-4224, otherwise I have a E-ATX full tower Rosewill case it should fit in if I leave out a few standoffs. https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157350 Link to comment
uldise Posted July 30, 2018 Share Posted July 30, 2018 be ware about Marvell SATA controller, many have seen some instability.. Link to comment
david11129 Posted July 30, 2018 Author Share Posted July 30, 2018 30 minutes ago, uldise said: be ware about Marvell SATA controller, many have seen some instability.. I will. I have several LSI9211-8i's to use. Good thing the board has several PCIE slots! Link to comment
uldise Posted July 30, 2018 Share Posted July 30, 2018 7 minutes ago, david11129 said: Good thing the board has several PCIE slots! it depends on usage. do you really need more than one x16 slot? i have very similar system in production but with Supermicro mobo and with 1 PCI-E 3.0 x16, 6 PCI-E 3.0 x8. https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X9DRH-7F.cfm see my sig for full details.. Link to comment
david11129 Posted July 30, 2018 Author Share Posted July 30, 2018 I don't need more than one x16 slot. I would have been fine with several x8 slots. I basically need room for maybe a full size GPU, and 2 HBA's. I'm actually leaning towards installing ESXI rather than Unraid on this board. My X10SL-F mobo and e3-1285lv3 CPU are both hardly being taxed other than the occasional plex stream. They also use much less power than I imagine this system is going to. I already have 96gb of ram to put in it. 1 hour ago, uldise said: be ware about Marvell SATA controller, many have seen some instability.. Do you know if this problem only affects Unraid, or is it going to be a problem with Esxi as well? Link to comment
uldise Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 11 hours ago, david11129 said: Do you know if this problem only affects Unraid, or is it going to be a problem with Esxi as well? not sure. i have no Marvell cards, so can't prove.. Link to comment
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