Workstation V2

[Mikey]

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.

 

[Mikey]

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

 

[Mikey]

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]

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

 

[Mikey]

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

 

[Mikey]

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