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MB for a ESX whitebox with Intel Xeon E5-2603v2 1,8GHz?

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September 23, 2013 8:25:44 AM

First, is the E5-2600v2 series the best choice at the moment? I read that Xeon hasweel will not be out until Q2 2014. All or most motherboards from at least supermicro was released in 2012, I would feel better if thr MB was released at the same time as E5-2600v2 (was in June?)

Super micro have several Motherboards but it is hard to know with one it the best for me:
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C60...
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C60...
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C60...
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C60...
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C60...
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C60...
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C60...

or maybe 2 CPU? (bust be able to start with one cpu and 64GB ram)
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/xeon/c60...

Storage:
I will build a nexenta VM using vmdirectpath with n numbers of 3-4TB sata drives + 240GB fast SSD. Sins nexenta community edition is limited to 18TB this will be my max in the future.

Graphics (fanless):
I will want to install one or two cheep but decent graphics card for virtual desktops. The few graphicscards i saw was added to ESX 5.5 cost about $1000, any cheep ones that work?


As for case, PSU, memory I will go for silence then cheep.

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October 16, 2013 7:07:27 AM

Personally I would wait for the Haswell CPU's since they will have notable performance boosts, and if you are on a budget the previous generation will be a little cheaper.
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