[vfio-users] Hardware recommendation?

[Ryan Flagler]

I know Alex has recommended the E5 series processors/motherboards for the
best compatibility. There are 2 versions of motherboards that support that
right now. Socket R and Socket R3. Obviously E5 series processors are not
very affordable brand new; however, the market is currently flooded with
server pulled E5-2670 CPUs. They can be easily found for $60 on ebay. These
CPUs work on Socket R motherboards. Additionally, these motherboards will
still support DDR3 memory which is cheaper to acquire than DDR4 as well.

That's where I'd start if I was you. Obviously there could always be issues
with 1 manufacturer to another, but hopefully that's a starting place.

Good luck!


On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 9:38 AM Tobias Geiger <tobias.geiger at vido.info>
wrote:

> Hello List!
>
> yesterday my beloved dx58so with its first gen 920 i7 got broke :(
> im really sad, except for the astronomicaly high power usage i was 100%
> happy with the system.
> Now it suddenly only recognizes 2998MB (?!) of the installed 16GB RAM -
> all of a sudden, dont ask me why.
> it also fails to let me into the bios ("hit f2" just doesnt work
> anymore) - in short: its broke. which is ok after about 7-8 years...
>
> so my question:
> can you recommend me a motherboard/cpu combination which makes as few
> problems as possible regarding vfio/vga passthrough?
> I'd like to re-use the existing AMD 88something GPU which is enough for
> me right now, but will surely update that in a few months/years and the
> next one is likely to be an NVIDIA one, so it would be nice if the new
> cpu/mobo will also work with nvidia cards regarding vfio.
>
> I'd prefer an up-to-date CPU/motherboard like Skylake, but Alex
> mentioned in his blog this might not be a good idea?
>
> Thanks for your advertisment ehm - recommendations! :)
>
> Greetings
> Tobias
>
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