I need help for me first really oc project.
This time I will start from scratch and go for high oc.
But first one need some hardware to tweak. I am not set which way to go on this project.
One the one hand I have a great offer for an Asus mobo in the ws series. This mobo supports i7 as well as Xenon so that part is great. However many pcie slots the board have there is one short coming as far as I see. It only holds 1 CPU.
I also have a good offer for a dual CPU true workstation motherboard. Nevertheless I doubt I will be able to afford 2 Xenons right away.
Ok what I have decided so far:
12 GB of ram - possible to upgrade to 24 GB. (I am set on Ecc buffered ram, pls comment this choice)
2 x controller card for two hardware raid.
Got my heart set on Corsair H50 water-cooling along with several quiet fans.
10-12 HDD's mounted with fans.
I will run several virtual machines under vmware workstation including FreeNAS, but will try to keep host os as lean as possible. For the moment it seems host will be Xubuntu 64 bit. A few of the guest OS will need to run 24/7.
Are the Xenon as easy to overclock as the i7?
Will the choice of Ecc ram hold me back when it comes to performance?
Can I start with a dual cpu workstation mobo and start with only one Cpu in place? (Add one more as I hold money)
I know i7 920 easily clock past 4 Ghz and is stable. How far would I be able to clockQuad-Core Intel Xeon E5540?
This time I will start from scratch and go for high oc.
But first one need some hardware to tweak. I am not set which way to go on this project.
One the one hand I have a great offer for an Asus mobo in the ws series. This mobo supports i7 as well as Xenon so that part is great. However many pcie slots the board have there is one short coming as far as I see. It only holds 1 CPU.
I also have a good offer for a dual CPU true workstation motherboard. Nevertheless I doubt I will be able to afford 2 Xenons right away.
Ok what I have decided so far:
12 GB of ram - possible to upgrade to 24 GB. (I am set on Ecc buffered ram, pls comment this choice)
2 x controller card for two hardware raid.
Got my heart set on Corsair H50 water-cooling along with several quiet fans.
10-12 HDD's mounted with fans.
I will run several virtual machines under vmware workstation including FreeNAS, but will try to keep host os as lean as possible. For the moment it seems host will be Xubuntu 64 bit. A few of the guest OS will need to run 24/7.
Are the Xenon as easy to overclock as the i7?
Will the choice of Ecc ram hold me back when it comes to performance?
Can I start with a dual cpu workstation mobo and start with only one Cpu in place? (Add one more as I hold money)
I know i7 920 easily clock past 4 Ghz and is stable. How far would I be able to clockQuad-Core Intel Xeon E5540?