Workstation V2

Mikey · 2 Aug 2014 at 08:42

Looking at upgrading, what's the view on the following bundle - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-092-OP&groupid=2833&catid=2512&subcat=2688

I use my PC for office, internet, iTunes, virtualisation

Was mulling a high end laptop.

Storage OneDrive and hopefully in time a QNAP NAS

Disks at mo, bundle of SSDs and 1TB x 2 disks etc.

I have other disks too, but not factoring them for now.

scotsdragon · 2 Aug 2014 at 09:57

What sort of virtualization are you doing?

The haswell e variant will be out really soon should offer more features and better boards

Mikey · 2 Aug 2014 at 10:40

Plan was for multi boot options. ESXi via USB and Windows 8.1 pro with hyper-v

I used to game, but have little time or interest so looking for a quality rig. Did mull less on motherboard and focus money on NAS / switch - HP Procurve to be aquired - hopefully two with SFPs

I also have a VM workstation license that is on my work laptop (HP i5/16GB/SSD).

Ultimately my idea for storage was a 4 bay QNAP and iSCSI LUNs - really need to look at 2012 R2 - my work thinks 2003 is fine - FFS
Security isn't supported fully via the board so brick wall!

Shame I can't borrow a netapp from work

Moving home hopefully so trying to plan IT setup

I am still using a 775 chip which had a HD5870 card and corsair hx520 PSU 8GB RAM

scotsdragon · 2 Aug 2014 at 10:58

The 4930k is a nice chip I have one but its not fully, Virtualization unlocked have you check your programmes compatibility list?

Mikey · 2 Aug 2014 at 12:07

scotsdragon said:
The 4930k is a nice chip I have one but its not fully, Virtualization unlocked have you check your programmes compatibility list?

Ok will do, main thing I'd prob start with is hyper-v as part of Win 8.1 pro

Mikey · 2 Aug 2014 at 17:02

Was going to ditch current CPU/RAM/MB/GFX, but poss better to hold onto the 5870 as no onboard GFX

Doomedspeed · 2 Aug 2014 at 22:47

Mikey said:
Ok will do, main thing I'd prob start with is hyper-v as part of Win 8.1 pro

I found this which is interesting, it points to the 3930K (the 4930k's baby brother) as being perfect for the use:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com...issing-ept-slat-support?forum=winserverhyperv

So the 4930k is a stunning choice.

Mikey said:
Was going to ditch current CPU/RAM/MB/GFX, but poss better to hold onto the 5870 as no onboard GFX

Yeah, keep the GPU.

Mikey · 2 Aug 2014 at 23:12

Other thought was to look at Xeon options, but prob ££

Doomedspeed · 3 Aug 2014 at 08:43

Mikey said:
Other thought was to look at Xeon options, but prob ££

Actually equivalent Xeons are cheaper.

The 2620v2 is £100 cheaper than the 4930k and boasts the same cores and threads, its just the core speed that suffers.

But if the program you use is heavily threaded and not reliant on core speed (normally a trait of single threaded programs) the Xeons are a great option.

Mikey · 3 Aug 2014 at 08:44

Interesting. Clearly I have been out of the market too long!

Reason for considering Xeon is they'll be better in hyper-v etc due to multi threading