Budget server build

[Cupar19]

So i am trying to build a budget server for game servers (most likely just minecraft), plex and just experimenting however i have a pretty small and tight budget £200-£300 and it HAS to be a tower as i cannot fit a rack server anywhere.

 

I would also like to be able to have 2 VMs and the host running at the same time using 4 cores each. I would obviously be using ebay for this however do you think this is difficult or impossible and does anyone have any ideas on what hardware i could use?

 

thanks

[Fasauceome]

300 for an LGA 1366 machine off eBay and then a 6 core/12 thread xeon would be my first idea, then split 2/2/2 cores for the VMs and the host

[Cupar19]

Just now, fasauceome said:

300 for an LGA 1366 machine off eBay and then a 6 core/12 thread xeon would be my first idea, then split 2/2/2 cores for the VMs and the host

i was looking at things like that however my experience with VMs in general, they dont really seem to run too well unless they have 4 cores

[Cupar19]

anyone know where i can get a socket G34 dual socket board for about £150 in the uk that is SSI-EEB because that would work however all of the ones i have found have expensive shipping fees because they are from other countries?

[Cupar19]

2 minutes ago, Cupar19 said:

anyone know where i can get a socket G34 dual socket board for about £150 in the uk that is SSI-EEB because that would work however all of the ones i have found have expensive shipping fees because they are from other countries?

or an lga 1567 one?

[SupaKomputa]

xeon 2660, 6 core 12 thread for only $50, but the motherboard are expensive.

[Electronics Wizardy]

28 minutes ago, Cupar19 said:

or an lga 1567 one?

Id stay away from those, 1366 or 2011 makes the most sense

 

34 minutes ago, fasauceome said:

300 for an LGA 1366 machine off eBay and then a 6 core/12 thread xeon would be my first idea, then split 2/2/2 cores for the VMs and the host

You can share cores, so no reason to have 2/2/2. You can over provision and give vms 4 or more cores each.

[Cupar19]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

Id stay away from those, 1366 or 2011 makes the most sense

 

You can share cores, so no reason to have 2/2/2. You can over provision and give vms 4 or more cores each.

1366 doesnt support 8 core for future upgrades which was why i avoided it at 2011 is way too expensive

 

that seems like an interesting idea, any 8 or 10 core cpus that might be affordable?

[Cupar19]

1 minute ago, Cupar19 said:

1366 doesnt support 8 core for future upgrades which was why i avoided it at 2011 is way too expensive

 

that seems like an interesting idea, any 8 or 10 core cpus that might be affordable?

if i went with lga 2011 that would drop my mobo budget to about £100 because of the higher cpu ocst, does anyone know where i can get a standard form factor one fo about that price?

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 hour ago, Cupar19 said:

1366 doesnt support 8 core for future upgrades which was why i avoided it at 2011 is way too expensive

 

that seems like an interesting idea, any 8 or 10 core cpus that might be affordable?

You can go dual 1366 easily and get 12 cores.

 

Why do you need 8 cores? Nothing your doing needs that much cpu power, a single 1366 cpu is fine here.

[Jarsky]

4 hours ago, Cupar19 said:

1366 doesnt support 8 core for future upgrades which was why i avoided it at 2011 is way too expensive

 

that seems like an interesting idea, any 8 or 10 core cpus that might be affordable?

I have 3 servers (2xR710's 1 xR610), all of them cost less than NZ$400 and they all have dual socket which I populated with Xeon X5650's so they all have 12C/24T.

LGA1366 only goes up to 6 cores, for 8+ core CPU's you need to go to LGA2011 but boards typically arent cheap...and then you have hard drives, memory and case/psu to buy for them as well....