A Build in planning

[unijab]

So far I've been thinking about something new to replace my 3 old machines (2 are Z68, 1 is X58)

 

Trying to sell them before I begin. 

And still have a few more details to work out.

 

[Curufinwe_wins]

If your budget is that high, drop to 32 gb of ram, get a cheaper mobo (really 700 USD for a mobo is crazy), move to a 5930k and use 980 ti sli 2 way.

 

 

EDIT start from here... http://pcpartpicker.com/p/kjBBt6

[Lotus]

Are you running a server with mission critical must-not-fail stuff that needs to be up 24/7?

 

Otherwise you have no need for ECC Registerred memory, that motherboard, or that CPU.

 

Hell, you don't need that CPU anyway as it's designed for mutliple-socket motherboards. Remember, while that CPU may have 8 cores, it's clocked very low and locked, so even an i7-5820k will perform better in multi-threaded applications, and stomp it in single-threaded performance.

[unijab]

I mostly run virtual machines and storage b/t my 3 computers now. 

I don't game. I like powerful PCs that will last.

 

 

Both my Z68 computers have 16GB of RAM; one has a Xeon 4c/8t CPU

My X58 PC has 24GB and a Core i7 950.

Even though they have GPUs in them, they dont have monitors connected, and I mostly use them remotely over my home network.

 

 

I purposely choose this board for the 10Gb NICs (buying it separate is 350+) 

I dont have any thing else 10Gb right now, but later on, who knows.

And without 4 sticks of ram it wont run in quad channel.

[Lotus]

I mostly run virtual machines and storage b/t my 3 computers now. 

I don't game. I like powerful PCs that will last.

 

 

Both my Z68 computers have 16GB of RAM; one has a Xeon 4c/8t CPU

My X58 PC has 24GB and a Core i7 950.

Even though they have GPUs in them, they dont have monitors connected, and I mostly use them remotely over my home network.

 

 

I purposely choose this board for the 10Gb NICs (buying it separate is 350+) 

I dont have any thing else 10Gb right now, but later on, who knows.

And without 4 sticks of ram it wont run in quad channel.

What home network hardware do you have? Not much can handle a 10 gigabit NIC, so even if the motherboard supports it, you aren't likely to be able to make use of it. Also, it's not like you're running a dataserver with a hugely impressive array of 24 SSDs in RAID so I don't see you needing that kind of bandwidth anyway.

[unijab]

Well when I expand my hard drive setup later with a 36 port sas expander i'll be prepared.

 

I have all 1Gb/s right now in house, but I wont be making the house 10Gb. 

The 10Gb ports will be reserved for when/if I build another server and I need to connect them together.

 

I'll test to see if the motherboard if compatible with ESXi 5.5 and in the future build another rig with same MB to run that and this one will become solely for storage.

[dandu3]

Well when I expand my hard drive setup later with a 36 port sas expander i'll be prepared.

 

I have all 1Gb/s right now in house, but I wont be making the house 10Gb. 

The 10Gb ports will be reserved for when/if I build another server and I need to connect them together.

 

I'll test to see if the motherboard if compatible with ESXi 5.5 and in the future build another rig with same MB to run that and this one will become solely for storage.

10 GbE for a home network is overkill, you'd be better off getting a cheaper MB and getting a better CPU and/or more RAM

[unijab]

10Gb is not for my home network.

 

10Gb is for connections to another server I may build in the future.