[vfio-users] Hardware recommendation?

[Alex Williamson]

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Ryan Flagler <ryan.flagler at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>

Nice tip!  You're referring to Sandy-Bridge EP, right?


http://ark.intel.com/products/64595/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2670-20M-Cache-2_60-GHz-8_00-GTs-Intel-QPI

8-core, hmmm that's tempting.
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