Hi,
I've been planning a Freenas build for a while, and pretty much decided to take the plunge to a Skylake Xeon e3 with a Supermicro X11SSH-F or X11SSM-F. I had a question on whether to get a CPU with the iGPU for the case that I might want it available to Windows installed with virtualbox in a Freenas jail. From what I understand FreeBSD doesn't support the iGPU and I know the Supermicro boards have their own graphics. But the X11SSH-F does support Intel VHD which from what I understand is remote desktop graphics using the iGPU, and the iGPU I think can be disabled in the BIOS so it might have an insignificant power penalty if not being used. So its really a question of: Will FreeNAS ever support the iGPU for virtualbox in the future? Does anyone have an idea of the power penalty of the iGPU when disabled in BIOS (assuming that it can be).
I'm specifically comparing a E3-1240V5 and E3-1245V5, there is barely any price difference and I know a few people have the E3-1245V3.
Thanks for your help.
I've been planning a Freenas build for a while, and pretty much decided to take the plunge to a Skylake Xeon e3 with a Supermicro X11SSH-F or X11SSM-F. I had a question on whether to get a CPU with the iGPU for the case that I might want it available to Windows installed with virtualbox in a Freenas jail. From what I understand FreeBSD doesn't support the iGPU and I know the Supermicro boards have their own graphics. But the X11SSH-F does support Intel VHD which from what I understand is remote desktop graphics using the iGPU, and the iGPU I think can be disabled in the BIOS so it might have an insignificant power penalty if not being used. So its really a question of: Will FreeNAS ever support the iGPU for virtualbox in the future? Does anyone have an idea of the power penalty of the iGPU when disabled in BIOS (assuming that it can be).
I'm specifically comparing a E3-1240V5 and E3-1245V5, there is barely any price difference and I know a few people have the E3-1245V3.
Thanks for your help.