so looking into building a media server to go with my HTPC to go in a new house... just doing some preliminary gathering right now, but was looking at this MB/CPU combo and wanted to get some thoughts/opinions:
AMD FD6300WMHKBOX FX-6300 6-Core Processor Black Edition
http://smile.amazon.com/dp/B009O7YO...TF8&colid=11VF0APCVXOVK&coliid=I1SGN3SXBRYEEA
ASUS M5A97 R2.0 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
http://smile.amazon.com/dp/B008V995...TF8&colid=34RPTPEQVKDT9&coliid=I1K5TY7O15415O
It seems like a good buy, and co-workers are pretty sure it would serve my needs but like as many opinions as possible, I'd like to stay in the 500-700 range on the server build, i have a full tower case and a WD Raptor drive i'll move into it for storage to save cost. I figure CPU/MB will be the largest cost factors.
goal is to run server 2012 and maybe use hyper-V to stand up a VM that will be the media server, or just run the media server on physical box itself.
thanks!
AMD FD6300WMHKBOX FX-6300 6-Core Processor Black Edition
http://smile.amazon.com/dp/B009O7YO...TF8&colid=11VF0APCVXOVK&coliid=I1SGN3SXBRYEEA
ASUS M5A97 R2.0 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
http://smile.amazon.com/dp/B008V995...TF8&colid=34RPTPEQVKDT9&coliid=I1K5TY7O15415O
It seems like a good buy, and co-workers are pretty sure it would serve my needs but like as many opinions as possible, I'd like to stay in the 500-700 range on the server build, i have a full tower case and a WD Raptor drive i'll move into it for storage to save cost. I figure CPU/MB will be the largest cost factors.
goal is to run server 2012 and maybe use hyper-V to stand up a VM that will be the media server, or just run the media server on physical box itself.
thanks!