[vfio-users] Passing intel_iommu=on in grub causes boot to immediately lock on two different X58 LGA1366 MB.

[Alex Williamson]

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 3:12 AM, Eddie Yen <missile0407 at gmail.com> wrote:

> As discussed in another recent thread, LGA2011 SandBridge-EP processors
> are cheap, but motherboard prices are verging on absurd.
>
>
> Indeed, X79 motherboard price just like gold, especially EOF. It's still
> hard to find a good price in second-hand market.
>
> But the other way, maybe can try Haswell-EP with X99 motherboard. Since
> Broadwell-EP prepare to come out, it may a good opportunity to pick one
> processor in second-hand market.
>

It does make you wonder if it'd be worthwhile to grab an X99 motherboard
now, since the motherboard tends to be cheaper while they're still
available new, put it on the shelf for a few years, and track when the
enterprise customers start dumping the processors to ebay.  It actually
seems like there could be a reasonable rate of return as an investment.
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