Lou Posted September 7, 2015 Share Posted September 7, 2015 Hi I'm looking to upgrade my system MB and CPU, Ram, any opinions on this board http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182927&_ga=1.174303138.1201760840.1440887778 and for CPU I was thinking http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117499 and for Memory was looking at http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148973&_ga=1.207768210.1201760840.1440887778 I was looking to have this last for a while and support Vm etc. for Unraid v6 Thanks for any input and direction. Lou Quote Link to comment
garycase Posted September 7, 2015 Share Posted September 7, 2015 Excellent motherboard. A low-end E5 series CPU => I'd spend a bit more and go with something like the E5-1650v3, which has nearly triple (actually 2.73 times) the performance of the 2603 (PassMark for the 2603 is 4,922; for the 1650 it's 13,440). If that's too pricey, look at an E5-1630v3, which scores 10297 on PassMark ... more than twice the performance of the 2603 for about $100 more. The memory doesn't state on the product page that it's registered RAM -- be sure that's what you're buying. Also, I'd use larger modules ... start with at least a pair of 8GB modules, as you'll definitely want some extra "headroom" once you start using virtual machines. Quote Link to comment
Lou Posted September 7, 2015 Author Share Posted September 7, 2015 Excellent motherboard. A low-end E5 series CPU => I'd spend a bit more and go with something like the E5-1650v3, which has nearly triple (actually 2.73 times) the performance of the 2603 (PassMark for the 2603 is 4,922; for the 1650 it's 13,440). If that's too pricey, look at an E5-1630v3, which scores 10297 on PassMark ... more than twice the performance of the 2603 for about $100 more. The memory doesn't state on the product page that it's registered RAM -- be sure that's what you're buying. Also, I'd use larger modules ... start with at least a pair of 8GB modules, as you'll definitely want some extra "headroom" once you start using virtual machines. K thanks glad I asked, so I revised my memory to 2x 8gig of registered and cpu to the E5-1650v3 Thanks again Lou Quote Link to comment
garycase Posted September 7, 2015 Share Posted September 7, 2015 You're welcome. That will be a screamer of a system => it will handle anything you want to throw at it for a long time to come ... and with 8 RAM slots you can easily bump up the RAM to whatever you might eventually need, just in case you get carried away with VM's Quote Link to comment
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