Help Dual LGA 2011 Motherboard question

[Majorpayne]

Hey all,

 

I've recently purchased 2 Intel Xeon E5-2670 2.6GHz 20MB 8-Core LGA2011 SR0KX CPU Processors, I'm attempting to locate a good Motherboard that I can fit into a mid/full tower or 4u Case. Anyone have experience with any boards that they would recommend. It will be a used board in the long run

[FloRolf]

They tend to be quite expensive and also rare. I know the cpu's are cheap but the boards really aren't. 

 

I think there's an Asus board that's good but I don't know which one it is and if it fits a server case like that. 

 

Why exactly do you want this? 

[Majorpayne]

25 minutes ago, FloRolf said:

They tend to be quite expensive and also rare. I know the cpu's are cheap but the boards really aren't. 

 

I think there's an Asus board that's good but I don't know which one it is and if it fits a server case like that. 

 

Why exactly do you want this? 

I'm mostly going to be running ESXI for Plex, Personal Games Servers, and a SCCM environment to get my certification 

[jasonvp]

Supermicro makes very good server boards.  I have a dual 2011-Xeon board in my server in the basement.  It just ... works.

[Majorpayne]

Just now, jasonvp said:

Supermicro makes very good server boards.  I have a dual 2011-Xeon board in my server in the basement.  It just ... works.

Do you have a normal EATX board or is it a blade style board. What type of case?

[jasonvp]

50 minutes ago, Majorpayne said:

Do you have a normal EATX board or is it a blade style board. What type of case?

 

It's a HAF-X case.  The parts are listed here: https://www.jasonvanpatten.com/2015/12/04/dropping-linux-and-kvm-in-favor-of-freebsd-and-jails/