Building a Server for Home Lab
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@anonymous said:
I have been thinking about this board:
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-motherboard-gaf2a88xmd3h
- Micro ATX
- Supports up to 64GB of RAM.
- Has RAID (I don't intent to use it)
- OnBoard Ethernet 1 x 10/100/1000 Mbps
- ONBOARD USB 3.0 HEADER(S)
- 8 SATA 6 GB/S Connectors
Gigabyte makes me nauseous. Avoid like a plague. I know theses are recommended all over the internets, but the main user base are hobbyists, teenage gamers, overclockers and the likes. I've built thousands of PCs before, on all kinds of mainboards, and nothing gave me more headaches than Gigabyte products.
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For a home user type system, the onboard Video most Motherboards have is probably just fine. Nothing fancy needed.
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@marcinozga said:
Gigabyte makes me nauseous. Avoid like a plague. I know theses are recommended all over the internets, but the main user base are hobbyists, teenage gamers, overclockers and the likes. I've built thousands of PCs before, on all kinds of mainboards, and nothing gave me more headaches than Gigabyte products.
What do you recommend then?
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I've never had anything but good luck with Asus myself.
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@anonymous Personally I'd go with Intel NUC, but I don't know what are your requirements. Perhaps you need more memory than you can put in NUC, or more disks. If you really want to build it yourself, I recommend Asus, Supermicro or Asrock Rack, don't buy Asrock desktop products.
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I have a Gigabyte board in place right now in my home server. No problems with it thus far.
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@coliver said:
I have a Gigabyte board in place right now in my home server. No problems with it thus far.
It's been a long time since I build a computer (been living on laptops), but the last two were both Gigabyte and other than a chipset fan going noisy the machines worked fine.
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@coliver said:
I have a Gigabyte board in place right now in my home server. No problems with it thus far.
And my brother-in-law is sending his Gigabyte mainboard for repair, because he didn't want free professional advice from family member, and instead relied on Tom's Hardware or similar board.
Every vendor has bad products and every vendor has good ones. In my experience, Gigabyte mainboards are problematic and require more time investment than others.
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Who makes a nice looking case?
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@marcinozga said:
@coliver said:
I have a Gigabyte board in place right now in my home server. No problems with it thus far.
And my brother-in-law is sending his Gigabyte mainboard for repair, because he didn't want free professional advice from family member, and instead relied on Tom's Hardware or similar board.
Every vendor has bad products and every vendor has good ones. In my experience, Gigabyte mainboards are problematic and require more time investment than others.
Agreed completely. I generally follow the whatever is cheapest trend... That Gigabyte board was inexpensive at the time and the Gigabyte board in my main desktop computer was also super inexpensive. Neither have had any problems. You're right though all companies have a failure rate I've just been lucky to have good experience with them.
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@anonymous said:
Who makes a nice looking case?
Lian-Li for example. Fractal Design are not bad either.
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@anonymous said:
Who makes a nice looking case?
Everyone? BitPheonix has some nice MicroATX cases but if you want a decent case at an inexpensive price Rosewill is generally my go to manufacturer.
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If I hit powerball, I'm buying this "case": http://www.redharbinger.com/shop/cases/cross-desk-usa-only/
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Parts Ordered, with be here tomorrow!
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Here is what I ordered:
- Thermaltake CORE V21 Black Extreme Micro ATX Cube Chassis CA-1D5-00S1WN-00
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00PDDMN6S - EVGA 500 W1 80+, 500W Continuous Power, 3 Year Warranty Power Supply 100-W1-0500-KR
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00H33SFJU - Gigabyte FM2+/FM2 AMD A78 HDMI Dual-Link DVI D-Sub 2-Way Crossfire mATX Motherboard GA-F2A78M-D3H
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00I6DLJHQ - AMD A8 series Processor 3.6 4 AD767KXBJCBOX
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B011BD60S0 - Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB Kit (8GBx2) DDR3 1600 MT/s (PC3-12800) UDIMM Memory
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006YG9EEW - SanDisk Internal SSD 120GB 2.5-Inch SDSSDA-120G-G25
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00S9Q9UKS
- Thermaltake CORE V21 Black Extreme Micro ATX Cube Chassis CA-1D5-00S1WN-00
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@marcinozga said:
If I hit powerball, I'm buying this "case": http://www.redharbinger.com/shop/cases/cross-desk-usa-only/
years of research?
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@anonymous said:
Who makes a nice looking case?
Who needs a case, just screw it to the wall
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@anonymous said:
I have been thinking about this board:
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-motherboard-gaf2a88xmd3h
- Micro ATX
- Supports up to 64GB of RAM.
- Has RAID (I don't intent to use it)
- OnBoard Ethernet 1 x 10/100/1000 Mbps
- ONBOARD USB 3.0 HEADER(S)
- 8 SATA 6 GB/S Connectors
Why build a server without RAID?
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@quicky2g said:
@anonymous said:
I have been thinking about this board:
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-motherboard-gaf2a88xmd3h
- Micro ATX
- Supports up to 64GB of RAM.
- Has RAID (I don't intent to use it)
- OnBoard Ethernet 1 x 10/100/1000 Mbps
- ONBOARD USB 3.0 HEADER(S)
- 8 SATA 6 GB/S Connectors
Why build a server without RAID?
Software RAID and XenServer work very nicely together.
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@coliver said:
@quicky2g said:
@anonymous said:
I have been thinking about this board:
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-motherboard-gaf2a88xmd3h
- Micro ATX
- Supports up to 64GB of RAM.
- Has RAID (I don't intent to use it)
- OnBoard Ethernet 1 x 10/100/1000 Mbps
- ONBOARD USB 3.0 HEADER(S)
- 8 SATA 6 GB/S Connectors
Why build a server without RAID?
Software RAID and XenServer work very nicely together.
Ahhhh gotcha software versus hardware. I use software RAID at home too. Misread the comment.
Btw if you can handle the noise, a coworker of mine keeps saying there are tons of great deals on eBay for IBM servers...2x quad core CPU, dual PSU, SAS drives, RAID card (sometimes), 16GB+ of DDR3 for under $500 in a rackmount case.
