Long story short, I have been running my dual X5650 system since early 2010, and recently my motherboard decided to take a crap on me, I was running a Tyan S7002AG2NR nevertheless I've gotten a good 3 years out of it.
The specs:
Lian Li PC-90 (Recent addition)
Motherboard: Tyan S7002AG2NR
2x - Xeon X5650s
6x - Kingston 8GB = 48GB total.
Adaptec 6805 w/ 4 x 250GB Western digitals in RAID10 and 2 x 60GB Intel 520 SSDs (Recent addition).
GPU: nVidia Quadro 2000D (Recent addition)
OS: CentOS 6.3
The machine was mainly used for parallel computing, running several VMs usually no more than 5, to sum it up it was a software development/data mining workstation. Xeons never broke a sweat though, and I feel that they're more than enough even nowadays. In short it has never been used for games, multimedia or such as it is for work only. So I am thinking should I just get an ASUS Z8NA-D6 and continue on my merry way.
However since I work in a datacenter, I have access to E5 Xeons which I can buy relatively cheap, 350/400 for each E5-2643 which is 4C/8T as even on my current Xeons I haven't been using more than 8 cores at full capacity. However I don't like the format of the current LGA2011 boards as I am very picky when it comes to expansion slots, as you can see Z8NA-D6 has 1 X16 slots and 2 x4 in x8 slots which in my opinion have more than enough bandwidth for the hard-drives and I don't feel like getting an EATX board since it is overkill for me and most SSI-CEB boards for LGA2011 don't have a full X16 slots with the exception of ASUS Z9PA-D8. According to the benchmarks E5-2643 is about 13-14% faster than the X5650.
So what I'd like to know if its worth upgrading. Either way ya'll get a build log as I have to clean the parts, and migrate over to the new case.
The specs:
Lian Li PC-90 (Recent addition)
Motherboard: Tyan S7002AG2NR
2x - Xeon X5650s
6x - Kingston 8GB = 48GB total.
Adaptec 6805 w/ 4 x 250GB Western digitals in RAID10 and 2 x 60GB Intel 520 SSDs (Recent addition).
GPU: nVidia Quadro 2000D (Recent addition)
OS: CentOS 6.3
The machine was mainly used for parallel computing, running several VMs usually no more than 5, to sum it up it was a software development/data mining workstation. Xeons never broke a sweat though, and I feel that they're more than enough even nowadays. In short it has never been used for games, multimedia or such as it is for work only. So I am thinking should I just get an ASUS Z8NA-D6 and continue on my merry way.
However since I work in a datacenter, I have access to E5 Xeons which I can buy relatively cheap, 350/400 for each E5-2643 which is 4C/8T as even on my current Xeons I haven't been using more than 8 cores at full capacity. However I don't like the format of the current LGA2011 boards as I am very picky when it comes to expansion slots, as you can see Z8NA-D6 has 1 X16 slots and 2 x4 in x8 slots which in my opinion have more than enough bandwidth for the hard-drives and I don't feel like getting an EATX board since it is overkill for me and most SSI-CEB boards for LGA2011 don't have a full X16 slots with the exception of ASUS Z9PA-D8. According to the benchmarks E5-2643 is about 13-14% faster than the X5650.
So what I'd like to know if its worth upgrading. Either way ya'll get a build log as I have to clean the parts, and migrate over to the new case.
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