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[cdawall]

So I am thinking about upgrading this box. I have a 12 core xeon broadwell-e chip that was originally going to go into my gaming PC, just because, but now I am thinking it would be more worthwhile to my server especially to get the better lan outputs.

Right now I am thinking this board

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157615

I cannot however decide if I want to air cool it or a cheap AIO, or even just grab a waterblock and us the EK plates (I have a pump tubing and radiator)

I did find out it will max out my gaming PC's crap NIC pretty easily, which is good, but I would prefer to be able to do that while maxing out the HTPC's as well.

 

[cdawall]

Well I did it, this thing is getting a major overhaul, I have another 2x4GB kit to toss in it as well.

 

[slozomby]

there aren't a whole lot of mini-itx 2011-v3 boards out there . that was the one I was looking at myself.
as for maxing both gig ports that's going to depend on the type of storage that's in there.

 

[cdawall]

there aren't a whole lot of mini-itx 2011-v3 boards out there . that was the one I was looking at myself.
as for maxing both gig ports that's going to depend on the type of storage that's in there.

The raid 50 array mentioned in here earlier. It peaks over 600mb/s so it probably won't have trouble maxing out one.

And this one should work better for this over the x99m-itx for this situation in particular.

 

[cdawall]

That should help some.

 

[cdawall]

In case anyone was curious I did have to flash the board to get the v4 chip to work, my 5820K will run passive quite well as well lol

And back in the case it goes

 

[cdawall]

Slight update, brought this up to 32GB finally.

 

[cdawall]

Ordered a better CPU, this one turbos up to 3ghz instead of the 2.4 of the old chip and has 4 more cores. Should hopefully be a bit better for stuff and things.

 

[cdawall]

And it is upgraded. Still not quite a crazy performer, but the single threaded jump under turbo is enough for plex to stop whining and complaining.

 

[cdawall]

Well... We have gone degraded.

 

[cdawall]

So slight update to this.

I have now replaced a total of 2 Seagate refurbished drives and slipped in one hot swap spare just in case. I have upgraded to an adaptec 71605 which brought everything up to SATA3 and we now have close to 800/900mb/s speeds out of the array.

 

[Jetster]

Awesome, need to read all this

 

[cdawall]

Awesome, need to read all this

I need to update it with new pics

 

[Jetster]

That 2011v3 ITX board is insane and memory has gone up a bit

 

[cdawall]

That 2011v3 ITX board is insane and memory has gone up a bit

Oh I am sure it has. Memory is awful right now, the ITX board is dope though. Probably one of my favorite parts, just wish Asrock had done DTX instead and a pair of 16x slots on it. That would fix my "I need a GPU for 4K encoding issue"

 

[Jetster]

What did you pay for that Xeon ? I would imagine it would encode as fast as any GPU

 

[cdawall]

What did you pay for that Xeon ? I would imagine it would encode as fast as any GPU

$350 and it isn't as good for 4K

 

[cdawall]

I have not updated this in a long time everything with the refurb seagate drives is chugging along great. Still only one drive failure in this amount of time. I do have a spare I keep on hand just in case and I am running an 11th drive as a hot swap spare (just a cheap 2.5" tucked in the back). One of the drives is making a little noise on occasion, but I have seen no errors or performance degradation so I guess I will ignore it and let it keep chugging.