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Hey jancohen,
jancohen wrote:
Interesting build, the Xeon coupled with a GT430. How do you like it?
Been thinking about a new Sandybridge setup myself.
Probably a bit more detail here than you wanted, but that's the engineer in me .
The setup has worked quite well for me. It was hard to find a microATX motherboard that supports x16 PCIe for the graphics and ECC, I ended up selecting the Asus P8B-M. The dual GigE (Intel) also works well for me, I have a direct link to my network attached storage with one port and a second port connects to my home network.
I actually run OSX Mavericks on this Xeon-E3-1240 and once I got things setup, it's more or less been problem free. The Xeon-E3 CPUs are same as Sandybridge/IvyBridge/Haswell except for the inclusion of ECC and some CPUs have the integrated graphics disabled (hence PCIe x16 available for graphics).
When I built the machine a few years ago (2012), Apple's Xeon offerings were limited to the older CPUs that were a bit too power hungry for my tastes. Now the "trashcan" Macs are out, for myself I'd consider buying one of those. ECC support on RAM is a big factor for me.
Last year I tried to build a Linux/Win7 machine with a Xeon-E3-1240 V3 (Haswell) and went Supermicro(X10SLM+-LN4F) for the motherboard ; similar specs to the P8B-M, microATX, 4xDDR3 with ECC and PCIe x16 for graphics. That motherboard turned out to be unstable, so I went to a non-ECC Asus (Z97M-PLUS) same CPU (Xeon) and with non-ECC DDR3@1333 everything's been peachy.
I'll note, I've used Supermicro quite successfully in the past and have been building machines for over 20-years and had a career in IT at one point. My last experience with the Supermicro/X10SLM felt anomalous, but the motherboard was definitely not stable.
- slrl0ver
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