11-02-2017, 10:25 PM
Ah ok, that all makes sense. I'd still be careful with the higher speed RAM dimms, I've not heard good things about their stability, even when used "properly" with the correct XMP profiles. You might be fine with them, I've not personally used them so it's hard to say how true those claims are.
New Xeon machines run a premium, so if used is off the table, you may be stuck with consumer/pro-sumer targeted hardware like the LGA2066 platform. Be aware, there are limitations that you wouldnt normally run into due to this like the limitations on what SSDs you can use when using features such as VROC(Virtual RAID).
As for GPUs, you could always go with something like these:
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1...esign.html
https://www.pcper.com/news/Graphics-Card...yle-Cooler
https://wccftech.com/custom-gtx-1080-galax-pictured/
They may not be as nice as the FE cards, but at least the fan style is still the same so you will still get roughly the same cooling performance as the FE cards. The main thing to make sure of is that your case has proper airflow to feed fresh air to the cards. The blower fans take in case air and exhaust it all out the back of the case, which avoids recycling hot air but ends up requiring a bit more case pressure/flow than you might expect to keep them running effectively and well fed with fresh/cool air.
New Xeon machines run a premium, so if used is off the table, you may be stuck with consumer/pro-sumer targeted hardware like the LGA2066 platform. Be aware, there are limitations that you wouldnt normally run into due to this like the limitations on what SSDs you can use when using features such as VROC(Virtual RAID).
As for GPUs, you could always go with something like these:
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1...esign.html
https://www.pcper.com/news/Graphics-Card...yle-Cooler
https://wccftech.com/custom-gtx-1080-galax-pictured/
They may not be as nice as the FE cards, but at least the fan style is still the same so you will still get roughly the same cooling performance as the FE cards. The main thing to make sure of is that your case has proper airflow to feed fresh air to the cards. The blower fans take in case air and exhaust it all out the back of the case, which avoids recycling hot air but ends up requiring a bit more case pressure/flow than you might expect to keep them running effectively and well fed with fresh/cool air.