Repurposing my Socket 2011v1 rig.

[Urumiko]

HI all,

SO i'm thinking of repurposing my old desktop and have a number of questions.

CUrrent Loadout =

Asus P9X79 LE ATX LGA2011 16 GB (4 x 4 GB) DDR3-2400 XMP Memory KHX24C11K4/16X Intel Core i7-3820 3.6 GHz Quad-Core   Its also worth noting i currently use an HP microserver as a Freenas NAS/PLEX The desktop still gets occasional use for light gaming, and video encoding, I've recently Also started running Large VMware labs on it and am rapidly running out of ram. I was looking at maxing out ram and noted the cheap availability of ECC DDR3 which my CPU does not support. From what i can gather my board will support 128gb ECC if i swapped to a xenon? Is ECC support purely A CPU support issue? Does this sound like a good move? Are there any pitfalls? If i went down this route id probably consider Virtualising my nas to this machine, leaving it always on and selling the HP. If i still wanted to fully utilise a GPU for occasional Gaming or rendering, would i be better off Keeping it as a windows host and using VMware workstation, Or can I go full virtual and do a GPU pass through?

[porina]

Check if the ECC ram is buffered/registered or not. Consumer boards might support unbuffered ECC, but the really cheap stuff tends to be buffered. Check your mobo manual for mentions of ECC support to check.