UnRaid New LabCenter

[segator]

Hi Everyone,

 

I'm thinking to sell my current NAS and buy a new labcenter.

 

Currently I have a asrock c2550d4i, low power server with 12 sata ports, work perfectly but the cpu it's not enough powerfull for my new purposes(labcenter) for a simple NAS it's perfect!

 

What I need for the new server?

I need to video encoding, and plex transcoding at least 4 transcoding in paralel.

I will create at least 4-8 VM to do some tests releating with docker clustering. 

 

I have the oportunity to buy Intel Xeon E5-2630V4 2.2 GHz BOX for 400$

 

My question is? could be a good idea to have dual  cpu with this cpu? which mobo could work? I never built a computer with dual cpu, any interesting points to know?

 

 

the other posibility is to buy i7 6900K or i7 6950X but I would like to have labcenter with ECC ram because it will be powered on 24/7

 

Could you help me to choice correct hardware in case Go to the Dual Xeon? maybe it's better i7 for video transcoding?

All this hardware should work on unraid, I will connect more or less 8-10 HDD and I will have 4-8VM's

 

I was checking on ebay and I see a lot of powerfull Xeon cpu but very cheap price, why? maybe it's not what we could expect? 

for example

http://www.ebay.es/itm/Intel-XEON-E5-2683-V3-ES-2-0Ghz-35MB-14C-28T-LGA2011-3-120W-22nm-QEY7-Processor-/222257269975?hash=item33bf90ccd7:g:bOsAAOSwPCVX4oPn

 

 

my budget is arround 2000$ ( I don't need to buy the case and the harddrives) so only mobo, cpu, ram, and dependends of the wattage the PSU

 

regards,

[leadeater]

Your at that awkward transition point where more cores are better (VM hosting) and where core frequency is important (encoding/transcoding). Problem is Xeons with high frequencies are rather expensive, do you need to buy new or used?

 

That CPU you linked is an engineering sample (ES) which is why it's so cheap, it's not a retail product and never came with a warranty or guarantee that it would function correctly. They are great for home labs etc because of this but you have to be aware of what they actually are.

 

If your going for dual CPU and used your best option to look out for would be E5-2643 v3, it's a good combination for core count and frequency and can be found on ebay.

http://ark.intel.com/products/81900/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2643-v3-20M-Cache-3_40-GHz

[segator]

Hi,

 

Thank you for your answer.

 

I find out a model that I think it's not ES, is retail/OEM http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Xeon-E5-2683-v3-OEM-Retail-SR1XH-LGA2011-3-Compatible-X99-i7-5960X-/232096866121?hash=item360a0d1f49:g:S0wAAOSwFGNWTefD

 

you think if I buy 2 cpu like that with a x-99 dual motherboard with socket  LGA2011-3

Any thing I must know before try to build dual cpu homelab?

 

About the  E5-2630 V4  what is wrong? is powerfull than 2643-v3 and 2683-v3

Can i have dual cpu with this E5-2630 V4? I think for 800 bucks have dual cpu with 18K score could be awesome

 

 

 

 

 

[jj9987]

3 hours ago, segator said:

Hi,

 

Thank you for your answer.

 

I find out a model that I think it's not ES, is retail/OEM http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Xeon-E5-2683-v3-OEM-Retail-SR1XH-LGA2011-3-Compatible-X99-i7-5960X-/232096866121?hash=item360a0d1f49:g:S0wAAOSwFGNWTefD

 

you think if I buy 2 cpu like that with a x-99 dual motherboard with socket  LGA2011-3

Any thing I must know before try to build dual cpu homelab?

 

About the  E5-2630 V4  what is wrong? is powerfull than 2643-v3 and 2683-v3

Can i have dual cpu with this E5-2630 V4? I think for 800 bucks have dual cpu with 18K score could be awesome

 

 

 

 

 

X99 platform supports only 1 CPU. You need to look for C612 board, that has dual sockets.

[leadeater]

3 hours ago, segator said:

Hi,

 

Thank you for your answer.

 

I find out a model that I think it's not ES, is retail/OEM http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Xeon-E5-2683-v3-OEM-Retail-SR1XH-LGA2011-3-Compatible-X99-i7-5960X-/232096866121?hash=item360a0d1f49:g:S0wAAOSwFGNWTefD

 

you think if I buy 2 cpu like that with a x-99 dual motherboard with socket  LGA2011-3

Any thing I must know before try to build dual cpu homelab?

 

About the  E5-2630 V4  what is wrong? is powerfull than 2643-v3 and 2683-v3

Can i have dual cpu with this E5-2630 V4? I think for 800 bucks have dual cpu with 18K score could be awesome

Nothing really is wrong with the E5-2630V4 it's just that since it is so new there won't be many used ones available. However the E5-2683v3 you have linked also isn't the best option for you, the clock rate is rather low to accommodate the 14 cores it has. For you since you want to do video encoding/transcoding a high base clock rate is more important than the number of cores, but you'll still want around 6-8 cores per CPU.

 

Linus actually made a video recently showing exactly this problem with one of his servers and how a very basic desktop CPU, not even X99, was much faster than his 18/36 core monster at video encoding.

 

 

Use this link to have a look through all the E5-2600v3 Xeons to find all the high base clock rate options, http://ark.intel.com/products/family/78583/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-v3-Family#@All. Also you'll be needing to buy a C612 motherboard and not an X99, it is the X99 server chipset FYI.

 

Regarding the ES Xeons you can still buy them, people on this forum use them, I was just making sure you knew what they are.