mrmarkfr Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 I have a chance to pick up a Asus p9x79-e ws and Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-1660 3.3 with 16gb ram, or a Asus p9x79 ws I7 3820 3.6ghz with 16gb of ram, to replace my dual core AMD system. Both are the same price. I have an LSI HBA already, but want to get into more processing, possibly run a VM, but not much else. It's used primarily as a media server, and will hopefully be running EMBY in a docker, and possibly Media Center Master in the VM. Which board/chip would be the better choice? Quote Link to comment
Lev Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 I'd pick the -e board with the Xeon for your use case. In fact for 99% of use cases I can think of the Xeon is the better pick, go with that and don't lose and sleep on it 😀 Quote Link to comment
mrmarkfr Posted March 22, 2019 Author Share Posted March 22, 2019 Picked up the E, with the Xeon :). Will test it this weekend with a windows install, then drop it into my unraid system Quote Link to comment
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