[vfio-users] Hardware recommendation?

Fri May 13 15:08:55 UTC 2016

Wow, if it wasn't for the not-as-cheap motherboards and the lack of 
recent features meant to boost performance (like NUMA and APIC-V, though 
I can't say how effective those are in the real world), I'd probably go 
for it as well. 300+ USD for a new mobo - especially when my current 
setup doesn't have any noteworthy technical issues - starts making it a 
bit hard to justify, though. Tempting indeed.

Tobias has no reason not to go for that setup either, since he could 
just reuse his 16GBs of DDR3.

- Nicolas

On 2016-05-12 11:21, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Ryan Flagler <ryan.flagler at gmail.com 
> <mailto: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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