Rebuilding the workstation - Z620

[kawskaws]

I picked this up Second hand from a friend a while ago and havent gotten around to setting it up properly. It is going to be my home server, taking over some functions of other random crap in the house. I'll also be using it for gaming when I want to play something high end that the other machines wont run at a silly resolution. So it'll get a decent second hand card soon thanks to our good friends at Nvidia and the 3000s.

 

Ive not seen a slot method for the secondary CPU and RAM, but it keeps the case small and the airflow zones quite neat. It gets noisy as hell on boot due to the small 40mm fans, but at running temps its no louder than a regular 4+ fan gaming system.

 

It's going to get the AudigyFX Sound card, drives in and setup and wireless card Ive got somewhere.... Specs are:

 

CPU - 2 x Xeon e5-2660 (16 cores, 32 threads)
RAM - 64GB ECC Cosair DDR3 (was 32)
SSD Boot - 256GB Samsung Evo

SSD Storage - 480GB Corsair
HDD - 2 x 5TB HDD Seagate
GPU - nVidia Quadro K620
NET - 2 x Gigabit Ethernet (one intel AMT)

 

Then its a matter of firing it up and getting the VMs running for;

Plex

NFS Share - Image Backups, Media

Ubuntu Proxy - FTP/NTP/DNS(with addfilter)/Web

 

Will also have a look into trying the steam streaming thing from it, to see if I can just stream to my other PCs and laptop when I need the power. Anyone used it before?