The Xeon X5650 really has me salivating something fierce! My plan is to replace my 771(iirc) intel dual core and Nvidia mobo with the X5650 and the Dell T3500 mobo, use my current 650W PSU, 9800GT EVGA vid. card, 4 x 160GB HDDs (cheap as chips) in RAID 10 and, to start with 12GB ECC RAM (3x4GB DIMMs). I want this server/desktop/(non-extreme)gamer - run CentOS headless - to host GNS3 with VBox integration as a learning platform to help me learn more about: 1. Networking 2. Windows 2012, win 7, win 8.1 and many of the Linux OS distros.
I am hoping that I could run a VM with win 7 to play my games, most of which should run fine enough this way but for one I worry about, that being EvE OnLine (a mmo-rpg) that I fell in love with back in '06. My main question is; Is there a RAID controller on this mobo (Dell T3500)? As for the game(s), it seems the best option, according to the EvE forums is for me to learn how to use Xen as my VMer :-|, with PCI-Passthrough.
It may well be that its not a gaming beast, but then gaming is not as important as being able to run a very nice VM environment, play Back Track/Kali Linux Pen-testing without breaking any laws and ruining my future. lol What say you regarding these plans?
I am hoping that I could run a VM with win 7 to play my games, most of which should run fine enough this way but for one I worry about, that being EvE OnLine (a mmo-rpg) that I fell in love with back in '06. My main question is; Is there a RAID controller on this mobo (Dell T3500)? As for the game(s), it seems the best option, according to the EvE forums is for me to learn how to use Xen as my VMer :-|, with PCI-Passthrough.
It may well be that its not a gaming beast, but then gaming is not as important as being able to run a very nice VM environment, play Back Track/Kali Linux Pen-testing without breaking any laws and ruining my future. lol What say you regarding these plans?
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