Home lab and gaming machine
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I like the Gigabyte Ultra Durable line of mobos. Have used them in my last 2 builds with no problems.
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Gigabyte and MSI would be my backup gaming machine choices.
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I'm a big fan of the Gigabyte boards (I'm running one now).
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@scottalanmiller said in Home lab and gaming machine:
I like Asus a lot, always have. My current second laptop (in the desktop picture earlier today) is Asus and my new one that I get in a week or so will be an Asus as well.
There's so much crap on their boards you have to a) pay for and b) disable. Remember the P5Q line for example?
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@momurda said in Home lab and gaming machine:
I like the Gigabyte Ultra Durable line of mobos. Have used them in my last 2 builds with no problems.
It that the UD-suffix in the product code? Like Gigabyte GA-Z170X-UD3?
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Overclocking at all?
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@MattSpeller said in Home lab and gaming machine:
Overclocking at all?
Nope, no OC'ing (anymore). CPUs are fast enough today.
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@thwr said in Home lab and gaming machine:
@MattSpeller said in Home lab and gaming machine:
Overclocking at all?
Nah, I don't mind OC'ing (anymore). CPUs are fast enough today.
Mind? I think you mean bother.
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@scottalanmiller said in Home lab and gaming machine:
@thwr said in Home lab and gaming machine:
@MattSpeller said in Home lab and gaming machine:
Overclocking at all?
Nah, I don't mind OC'ing (anymore). CPUs are fast enough today.
Mind? I think you mean bother.
Sorry, yes. Had a short night.
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This is similar to what @scottalanmiller was asking the other day about using a hypervisor instead of dual booting. I haven't tried to do it that way. Maybe I'll give it a show when I'm more familiar with XenServer/Hyper-V.
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@thwr Yes, UD suffix is Ultra Durable line. I think they are up to UD4 now with the ddr4/socket 1151 spec out. The UD3 series was for ddr3/2011, 1150, etc. Oh actually theyre upto UD5 series. Damn my computer is getting old, but not slow.
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@momurda said in Home lab and gaming machine:
@thwr Yes, UD suffix is Ultra Durable line. I think they are up to UD4 now with the ddr4/socket 1151 spec out. The UD3 series was for ddr3/2011, 1150, etc. Oh actually theyre upto UD5 series. Damn my computer is getting old, but not slow.
Thanks, but I just don't want to spend like 150 EUR+ for just a board. Could easily get a C232/236 board for this
Any experience with the current line of ASRock Z170 boards? They got pretty good reviews. I do not need any fancy looking coolers, SLI or 257.1 audio (5.1 would be nice)
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Final choice is between these two configurations:
Core i7 6700k
Some Z170 board
16GB DDR4
Pro: Higher core speed, good for Arma IIIvs
Xeon E3 1240v5
Some C236 board
16GB DDR4 ECC
Pro: ECCPrice difference: 20 EUR. Anyone got a dice or a coin?
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Just placed the order: Core i7 6700K
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Isn't cache a huge difference between I series and Xeon chips. Might not be meaningful in your case...
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@Dashrender said in Home lab and gaming machine:
Isn't cache a huge difference between I series and Xeon chips. Might not be meaningful in your case...
Yes it is.
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@scottalanmiller said in Home lab and gaming machine:
@Dashrender said in Home lab and gaming machine:
Isn't cache a huge difference between I series and Xeon chips. Might not be meaningful in your case...
Yes it is.
The final decision was between ECC and Cache vs significant better single thread performance.
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Right, since you've got a GPU sorted, I vote for the Xeon. You don't need the on board graphics of the i7.
Is the single thread performance that noticeable in the real world?
Also, that i7 has no stock CPU cooler. Add that to your purchase list.
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@nadnerB said in Home lab and gaming machine:
Right, since you've got a GPU sorted, I vote for the Xeon. You don't need the on board graphics of the i7.
Is the single thread performance that noticeable in the real world?
Yes, it is. A Xeon at the same frequency should be faster due to its cache. But the 1240v5's base freq is 500 MHz lower and everything above is expensive.
Also there are still very few C236 boards available, and I didn't like a single one of them.
Also, that i7 has no stock CPU cooler. Add that to your purchase list.
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