Bermanator98
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So... I've recently replaced my FX8350 with an Intel CPU. I now have a full PC worth of parts from upgrading over the years, a spare AM3+ motherboard, as well as an old free PC I got from work. So I wanted to make use of this. I thought of setting up a PC for virtual machines, as well as a machine as a local file server all as a little project of my own. I knew that I would have to buy hardware to make it work since the PC from work only has 4 SATA ports, and I planned to use it as the file server. As well, the old PC case is too small for an ATX board. Then I could use the 8 core FX8350 for VMs, so I can dedicate more cores to VMs. But then I got thinking... I was thinking of Linus' "Under $150 CPU, Motherboard, 16GB RAM" video from last December. I could probably buy a decent server-grade CPU / mobo / RAM combo from ebay and throw that in the mix. And then I got thinking about that... Would I be better to use the FX8350 for the VM PC, or using old Intel server hardware for VMs? Also, do all old server motherboards that Linus talks about have non-standard mounting holes? If so, then that's probably not a good idea...
So here's the question.. Should I:
A. Just buy a cheap AM3 CPU and a new case to use for FreeNAS and use my full system of spare parts for the VM PC?
B. Buy an old Intel server CPU and board and a new case for FreeNAS and use my full system of spare parts for the VM PC?
C. Switch around the roles in part B.
D. Buy a cheap i3 CPU and motherboard for FreeNAS and use my full system of spare parts for the VM PC?
For storage I plan on using give or take 5 1TB drives in RAID 5. The reason for this is I can get them for free from work, which is the only reason why I'm going through with this. Normally I would use higher capacity drives, but hey, they're free.
Another thing, I was looking at the FreeNAS system requirements, and it says Intel is highly recommended... Why is this? Does it matter if I did go with AMD? Or should I go with Intel if at all possible?
Input on this is much appreciated!
Thanks,
Michael
So here's the question.. Should I:
A. Just buy a cheap AM3 CPU and a new case to use for FreeNAS and use my full system of spare parts for the VM PC?
B. Buy an old Intel server CPU and board and a new case for FreeNAS and use my full system of spare parts for the VM PC?
C. Switch around the roles in part B.
D. Buy a cheap i3 CPU and motherboard for FreeNAS and use my full system of spare parts for the VM PC?
For storage I plan on using give or take 5 1TB drives in RAID 5. The reason for this is I can get them for free from work, which is the only reason why I'm going through with this. Normally I would use higher capacity drives, but hey, they're free.
Another thing, I was looking at the FreeNAS system requirements, and it says Intel is highly recommended... Why is this? Does it matter if I did go with AMD? Or should I go with Intel if at all possible?
Input on this is much appreciated!
Thanks,
Michael