@scottalanmiller said:
@Mike-Ralston said:
@MattSpeller Very much parts I would have chosen
No one has given me a budget yet, though.
We don't work from budgets. Budgets encourage bad spending. We buy what is the best for the use case.
Well the best use for the case would be to spend $14K on a PC, and give it a 16 Core Intel, with dual GTX Titan Z's, and Dual Radeon HD 7990's, both in separate Video loops... 
@MattSpeller Very much parts I would have chosen No one has given me a budget yet, though.
@thanksaj Work rigs for NTG employees. Not anything ridiculous.
@scottalanmiller And the APU supports is, I chose the parts carefully.
@scottalanmiller said:
@Mike-Ralston said:
And @thanksaj No average NTG employee has any reason to need an i7.
Yeah, i7 makes no sense here. i3 more likely, i5 possibly. But that's about it.
Mhmm. And a dedicated GPU would always be a possibility, later on.
@scottalanmiller said:
@Mike-Ralston said:
@scottalanmiller What do you want these machines to do, and at what price point?
Standard desktops for everyone to use. Not for running VMs (we have the lab for that), but for documents, lots of web browsers, LogMeIn sessions, PuTTY, etc.
So nothing even remotely strenuous... Decent HP and Lenovo pre-builts may be cheaper. Shall I look into those? And @thanksaj No average NTG employee has any reason to need an i7. And the DC 5850 was built to run XP, of COURSE it's outdated.
@scottalanmiller What do you want these machines to do, and at what price point?
@scottalanmiller 8GB is enough. The point I was making is that those CPU's are more than enough. But, I can get 16GB for between $150-$200.
@Minion-Queen Only having 8GB of RAM (the standard recommended amount) is more of a bottleneck than the CPU. You're close to 60% RAM usage, right?
@Minion-Queen And what CPU usage are you at?
@scottalanmiller That site is based around gaming performance, business use is so much lighter than that. Unless you're planning on having employees doing serious gaming, or multiple VM's at once, anything more than this is complete over-kill... I guess the best thing for me to ask is this: WHAT do you want these machines to do, and at what price point?
@scottalanmiller said:
Was thinking something closer to....
http://cpuboss.com/cpus/AMD-Phenom-II-X6-1035T-vs-AMD-A10-5800K
The 5800K is a faster CPU than that in every way. And for comparing it to an Nvidia GPU... Hard to say, as the APU depends on Southbridge and RAM speed and amount quite heavily... A tad slower than a GTX 550, I would say.
@scottalanmiller What are you talking about??? I used an APU for around a year, and it was the A10 - 5700. Worked fine for heavy gaming use, at medium to high settings. Could handle dozens of webpages, and multiple background tasks including Skype and Skyrim, all at the same time. It's much more powerful than the solution that @Minion-Queen uses, and she uses a ton of tasks all at once. Ask her.
@scottalanmiller Entirely misinformation. Integrated GPU is more powerful than anyone in NTG, other than me, is currently running, in that Hadron chassis. If you want those kinds of things, we're talking more like $600-$1000 or beyond. What's the target budget here?
@scottalanmiller Here's 2 to start you off while I come up with more. I've decided that a chassis with a built in PSU is the cheapest way to go. Both of these cases also have the room to possibly do some sort of fancy NTG themed powder coat? 
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/QKGsjX - High Powered, Small, Stylish build.
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/RB9hGX - Cheapest Acceptable Rig.
Play with the parts and post a link back, or offer suggestions for things that should be changed? Appreciate the feedback.
@scottalanmiller said:
@nadnerB said:
Can you get the Whitebox vendor is all states that you do business in?
No vendor, all internal. NTG's own bench services would make them.
AKA Me, right?
@Minion-Queen You're welcome! Be glad that I wanted to watch different things than other kids x)
@scottalanmiller said:
A large deciding factor, beyond cost, will be what @Mike-Ralston can come up with as a farm factor. How "cool", yet still business-like, does it look while remaining small.
The cooler, the less cost effective. I'm a bit busy, but I'll read the whole post and whip up handful of examples for machines tomorrow.
@scottalanmiller So, it turns out the issue I was having getting the OS installed, was that the default file path was pulling from an empty folder. I found the actual ISO's, and got two installs. One that the interns did, on CentOS 7, and one that I did, on CentOS 6.
@scottalanmiller said:
You'll only need a single virtual NIC for the VM.
One last question, how much storage do I assign to it?