Takuan

I don't seem to have any throttling issues. I simply want to enable the Intel Turbo Boost which both CPUs are cabable of. The problem is, that I cannot find any such option in the BIOS, and the core C states you refer to, are not something I can find either. It would be great if someone who knows this board and/or have experience with Intel Turbo Boost on this board to share their knowledge to either confirm or deny that this board do or don't support Intel Turbo Boost. If it does support it, then please share your knowledge on how to enable it. Thanks.

After looking more carefully for the options suggested here by you guys, I started changing random settings in order to see if such options would show up. After some tinkering I finally found some grayed out options looking like the above suggestions. After some more random tinkering the grayed out options became active and woop woop, there they were. I will put the solution here for future reference, in case someone else have the same issue:
 
BIOS (4301) settings:
1. Advanced > Asus Turbo Ratio Lock (ATRL) > [Disabled] (this have to be disabled, or the options from 2-4 will not show up as active.
2. IntelRCSetup > Advanced Power Management Configuration > Power Technology > [Custom)] (this will enable and show more options)
3. IntelRCSetup > Advanced Power Management Configuration > CPU P State Control > EIST (P-states) > [Enabled]
4. IntelRCSetup > Advanced Power Management Configuration > CPU P State Control > Turbo Mode > [Enabled]
 
More options become visible when Power Technology is set to [Custom], but the above are sufficient to enable Intel Turbo Boost.
 
All tested and verified with Hardware Monitor and CPU-Z.
 
Thank you to all of you for taking your time to reply. I very much appreciate it.
Thanks again to you all for suggesting what to look for.
 
Woop Woop.
 
NOTE:
Please be aware, that the Xeon Max Turbo boost listed at Intel Ark is the Max Turbo Frequency for a single core only. The all-core boost will always be lower. For reference Puget Systems made a chart of the all-core boost frequencies, which can be found here (scroll down a bit): https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/hpc/Xeon-E5v3-All-Core-Turbo-and-Amdahl-s-Law-759/

Hi guys.
 
I need your thoughts on a matter that I cannot find anywhere else on the internet.
 
I have researched a lot about SSDs in a NAS, but I cannot really see to find the answers I need. When having an SSD in a NAS the consensus all over seems to be, that this is a bad idea, unless you actually put in the data center drives specifically made for this use. What is "never" explained, or is simply assumed but never mentioned, is that this info is only "viable" in case the use scenario is some kind of RAID. In most cases, a NAS is populated with HDDs because of the "reliability" and the lower costs and higher capacity (bang for buck). I get all that, and I am actually myself following that way, and I have only HDDs in my NASs at the moment. In order to have some speed and performance increase, the general idea is to put an SSD cache either read or read/write into the NAS, in order to speed up especially random r/w of files often used. All this I am fully aware of, and I think that if I research more about these particular things, my eyes will turn square shape without getting any closer to finding the answers I need. Thus I hope you may be able to help.
 
What is never explained, and never discussed in any information or white papers I have been able to find the past week, is the different scenarios of having SSD inside a NAS as basic discs (no RAID of any kind). In the case of performance, I cannot see the difference between an SSD cache and just a plain SSD, as both setups would perform exactly the same (as long as the file in question is already on the SSD cache). In my particular "special" scenario I have been thinking about having an SSD setup as a basic disk inside the NAS, installing all apps/VMs etc. and other often read and used applications/files on there. Meaning that reading is main, writing is only when files are changed or new apps are installed or already installed apps are updated etc. This use scenario would perhaps not be much or any different from having the same SSD installed in any other "normal" non-NAS computer. Except one is called NAS/Server, the other is called PC.
 
The reason for having an SSD rated for NAS and data center use is due to the Power Loss Protection and other technical stuff, and I get that, compared to a "normal" consumer SSD that has none of these features. Generally speaking.
 
All warnings toward having a consumer (even the best quality one) SSD in a NAS seems to have the consensus that it is just a bad idea in any and all scenarios. But is it really? I am of course thinking about the scenario mentioned above, having an SSD installed as a basic disk in the NAS without any RAID whatsoever, simply using it for having all apps/VMs installed on it and run from there. No SSD cache is needed, as everything on the SDD is already "cached" in terms of performance. Having an SSD cache installed in this scenario would just be a waste of SSDs as I understand it.
 
What are your thoughts and your experience with such a setup? The question for this post is the fact, that enterprise SSDs are very expensive, actually in many cases between 50-80% more expensive than the consumer "equivalent". If the technical specs that makes it a DC SSD or a NAS SSD is unnessessary in the above scenario and will make no difference when the SSD is used as a basic disk only, then I would assume that saving the cost on a consumer SSD vs the DC/NAS SSD would be an extremely good argument. In the case of the Samsung SSD 860 (brand mentioned here is just an example) consumer and samsung 860 dtc models, I found that the only difference between the drives are the firmware. In this case, I cannot see why I should pay the higher cost for the dtc model, instead of the consumer model and thus save some money. Given of course, that the use is as a basic disk without any RAID of course.
 
I am not concerned with redundancy of the SSD in the NAS, as I am already planning on doing backup to an external SSD used solely for backing up the data from the SSD in the NAS. So SSD redundancy is of no concern in this scenario.
 
Any and all thoughts, ideas and warnings you may have to this specific scenario is most welcome.
Thank you very much.

When I wrote my last post, that PSU from Corsair was exactly what I had in mind. So yes.
 
You may be able to run your system on a 600-750W as suggested by others, but I would personally like to have my system run a bit cooler and quieter. One other thing to consider is the overhead, the extra latent power you will have with a PSU like this. You will be able to upgrade your PC later on. With the PSU you have now, I would say that it is indeed time for an upgrade on that anyway. You may as well go for one that can keep you going for a few more years down the line anyway.

I would never attempt that card, with that PSU.
This is what I found on Zotac's homepage about the card.
 
POWER REQUIREMENTS
• 600-watt power supply recommended
• 320-watt max power consumption
• Dual 8-pin PCI Express power connectors
 
Link to specs sheet: http://hkftp.zotac.com/External/VGA/GTX10series/GTX1080Ti/ZT-P10810F-10P/Brochure/ZT-P10810F-10P.pdf
 
So depending on what else you may have in your system, I would not go with any less than a 750W PSU but I would prefer a little more such as 860W.
You also have to consider the heat and stress on the PSU. With a little more overhead on the PSU, you can also run quieter.
 
Hope that helps.

I would never attempt that card, with that PSU.
This is what I found on Zotac's homepage about the card.
 
POWER REQUIREMENTS
• 600-watt power supply recommended
• 320-watt max power consumption
• Dual 8-pin PCI Express power connectors
 
Link to specs sheet: http://hkftp.zotac.com/External/VGA/GTX10series/GTX1080Ti/ZT-P10810F-10P/Brochure/ZT-P10810F-10P.pdf
 
So depending on what else you may have in your system, I would not go with any less than a 750W PSU but I would prefer a little more such as 860W.
You also have to consider the heat and stress on the PSU. With a little more overhead on the PSU, you can also run quieter.
 
Hope that helps.

So if I understand you all correctly, "ECC Memory Supported" means exactly that it is supported, and thus that I can choose to use it (or not) depending on the CPU and/or if the motherboard supports it as well of course. That is very good news. Thank you all for your input.