I got these two Socket F (1207) AMD Opteron 8358 SE Quad-Core CPUs OS8356WAL4BGD
Here is a picture of them (I'd put this inline if I could figure it out)
http://img229c.imageshack.us/i...9/2860/dsc06649aq9.jpg
Currently I have a MSI K8N Neo4/SLI board with Athlon 64 X2 3800+ based system I use for my main workstation and (some) gaming. I have a file server which is an MSI K8N Neo4 with an Athlon 64 3200+ with 3x 1 TB drives in RAID 5.
With these two Opterons I could either upgrade my file server or upgrade my workstation. I just am not familiar with the technology so I was hoping Anandtech members could help me out.
Sever mobos generally require Registered memory.. something I've never dealt with. I thought it was more expensive but from a quick glance at prices it doesn't seem to be a *big* difference in price.
The barebones 1 U servers I've seen won't really work to replace my fileserver since I have 3x 1TB storage drives plus the OS drive, Unless I can put those in some sort of SAS interface which I am also unfamiliar with.
Do I really want Server hardware in my apartment? (noise)
Here are some of the specific options I've been looking at:
Right now the thing I am most interested in/excited about is this:
Asus L1N64-SLI WS/B "Megatasking Worstation Motherboard" ~$349.99
The Athlon 64 FX version of this "enthusiast Megatasking" doesn't require Registered memory and from what I understand can be flashed with the BIOS of the WS/B to work with the Opterons I have.
Barebones workstation:
Acme A2004T Tower Dual AMD Opteron 2000 socket F workstation 4*SATA RAID $ 619.00
Who is Acme?!
Barebones server:
MSI K2-104-A3M (16 Dimms/SATAII/Dual LAN) ~$ 349.99
From another thread I found a great starting list of motherboards that might be of interest to me.
What would you do? What chipsets should I be interested in? Anything I should know?
Here is a picture of them (I'd put this inline if I could figure it out)
http://img229c.imageshack.us/i...9/2860/dsc06649aq9.jpg
Currently I have a MSI K8N Neo4/SLI board with Athlon 64 X2 3800+ based system I use for my main workstation and (some) gaming. I have a file server which is an MSI K8N Neo4 with an Athlon 64 3200+ with 3x 1 TB drives in RAID 5.
With these two Opterons I could either upgrade my file server or upgrade my workstation. I just am not familiar with the technology so I was hoping Anandtech members could help me out.
Sever mobos generally require Registered memory.. something I've never dealt with. I thought it was more expensive but from a quick glance at prices it doesn't seem to be a *big* difference in price.
The barebones 1 U servers I've seen won't really work to replace my fileserver since I have 3x 1TB storage drives plus the OS drive, Unless I can put those in some sort of SAS interface which I am also unfamiliar with.
Do I really want Server hardware in my apartment? (noise)
Here are some of the specific options I've been looking at:
Right now the thing I am most interested in/excited about is this:
Asus L1N64-SLI WS/B "Megatasking Worstation Motherboard" ~$349.99
The Athlon 64 FX version of this "enthusiast Megatasking" doesn't require Registered memory and from what I understand can be flashed with the BIOS of the WS/B to work with the Opterons I have.
Barebones workstation:
Acme A2004T Tower Dual AMD Opteron 2000 socket F workstation 4*SATA RAID $ 619.00
Who is Acme?!
Barebones server:
MSI K2-104-A3M (16 Dimms/SATAII/Dual LAN) ~$ 349.99
From another thread I found a great starting list of motherboards that might be of interest to me.
Originally posted by: tcsenter
ASUS
KFN32-D SLI
KFN32-D SLI/SAS
KFN5-D SLI
L1N64-SLI WS
L1N64-SLI WS/B
MSI
K9ND Speedster2
TYAN
Thunder n3600B S2927/S2927-E
Originally posted by: heyheybooboo
SuperMicro Mobos for AMD Opteron 2000 series processors
What would you do? What chipsets should I be interested in? Anything I should know?