That's the review, here's our Linux Workstation build:
Deepcool 750 Watt Power Supply
Xeon 1230v5 Socket 1151 CPU
Crucial ECC Ram
Intel 750 SSD + Samsung MSata
AMD RX480 (Stand-in for AMD 5750 right now)
This system was for friend of the channel Grizzle, who is a developer and has a USB DAC. The RGB bling of this generation was a real turnoff and, with hardware re-use in mind for the future, we decided to opt for the Intel C232 Platform which gives us access to Xeon CPUs and ECC memory. The ASRock E3V5 was a perfect motherboard vehicle for delivering exactly what we were looking for at a great price point.
Even though the motherboard lacks M.2, it has full support for NVMe and you can use M.2 with an add-in PCIe adapter card.
We've been very satisfied with the Linux performance on this machine. I am adding the RX480 to this computer later today, so I will be surprised if this is the last we see of this hardware on the channel.
Here is our test build of the components (not our final build):
Hey weird question but does that Swiss knife have a changeable hex drive on it? If it does do you know what make it is would love a new pocket knife with that
@wendell I noticied griz mentioned a ZFS pool. Is there any reason he's using ZFS on Linux instead of BTRFS? As far as I'm aware I thought BTRFS parity was stable now.
Will the 16x physical (4x slot) work with a 8x dual 10gig nic? I mean the bandwidth is there but will the card work since its a 8x card? EX Intel X540-T2 10G Dual (8x on the board but it only needs pcie2.0 bandwidth for it)
Most likely because its a cheaper C232 board. C236 boards have way more feutures to offer. But also come with a way higher price. Like that Gigabyte X170 ecc board that wendell did a review on recently.
I'd like to fit this inside the Silverstone ML04 and use their new PP08 SFX to ATX adapter for clearance, then try to rackmount it. This chassis' ludicrously long wires should prove beneficial for my first ever build. I have a drill and a new sheet metal tap thing so I'm not too worried.
my current main server is getting moved from a norco 24 bay to this 2u case (comes with a pci-e riser for full size 2 slot card) and will only be used for VMs and remote desktop the first E3V5 will take is place as the main file server the second one will upgrade the none ecc system i currently use for the file server backups I'll be making a build thread later on
Hmm I can't seem to get a picture of my socket with my phone but I got mine on amazon and there are a dozen bent pins with one pushed in and one bent 135 degrees back. The motherboard's pcb is also noticebly warped at the i/o. I don't want to fry my e3 1230 v5 cpu.
the 2 i got are also warped one by about 1/8 (4mm actual) and the other warp by over 1/2 inch (12 mm) that is a lot when it's time to put the screw in it was worrisome but there was no cracking when i did everything seams ok so far
