Jason Evans
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I am in the market to upgrade/downgrade/ idk? I am looking for guidance and help choosing a few items, mainly mobo, and cpu. I have been searching and searching. I would like to go the xeon route with an integrated gpu so I can spin up VMs and test minor graphical games (mainly mobile) using NOX, and Bluestacks. My system cannot handle that currently. I have a Dell Poweredge C2100, Those specs match what I have exactly. I have a case I want to transfer most of the drives to and use. I will be moving in Aug and don't have room to house a server blade anymore. With that case in mind, I think I can fit all my drives in there with a few tweaks.
My goals are a new mobo or used (ebay) CPU used. Trying to keep cost down, and as you can see with the Dell I dont mind using used server grade stuff.
EDIT: I forgot to post my HDD's. I have 12 HGST 2TB drives I got from ebay, and 2 Intel SSD's, one for boot and one for jails, also from ebay. (very cheap SSD's)
1.Xeon with integrated GPU
2.mobo that has a few slots for the drives, cause I was thinking I could take out the perc H200 and reuse it? It's already flashed to IT mode.
3. Retain my ECC ram, 32GB will be perfectly fine for my current storage.
Things I have to re-(use). That NZXT case, an EVGA gold rated 650w PSU, HD's in Dell blade, perc H200 raid card, the cables from the sever blade?
I am an open book for suggestions, DO's, DON'T's etc. And is this even doable?
Thanks for taking the time to read my post :)
EDIT:
HERE is the link to my official build thread.
My goals are a new mobo or used (ebay) CPU used. Trying to keep cost down, and as you can see with the Dell I dont mind using used server grade stuff.
EDIT: I forgot to post my HDD's. I have 12 HGST 2TB drives I got from ebay, and 2 Intel SSD's, one for boot and one for jails, also from ebay. (very cheap SSD's)
1.Xeon with integrated GPU
2.mobo that has a few slots for the drives, cause I was thinking I could take out the perc H200 and reuse it? It's already flashed to IT mode.
3. Retain my ECC ram, 32GB will be perfectly fine for my current storage.
Things I have to re-(use). That NZXT case, an EVGA gold rated 650w PSU, HD's in Dell blade, perc H200 raid card, the cables from the sever blade?
I am an open book for suggestions, DO's, DON'T's etc. And is this even doable?
Thanks for taking the time to read my post :)
EDIT:
HERE is the link to my official build thread.
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