Re: [Xen-users] Cheap IOMMU hardware and ECC support importance

[Mihail Ivanov <mihail.ivanov93@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Hi,

So I've read more about ECC and decided I need it.
Will probably use 8-16GB DIMM's 1600Mhz.
About the amount of VGA's - I want 7-14 monitors(at least 2 Megapixels
60Hz on each one - that is ex. 1920x1080), so I need cheap video outputs.
Only one-two of the VGA's need be powerful and pass-throughed, the
rest should stay in Dom0.
So next thing I've read about RAID, so I am thinking of raiding 2 x WD
Black 2 TB. (Should I do software raid or hardware raid?)
And about my SSD -  doing regular backups on two small HDD's should be
fine?
Also I will be using ZFS and my Dom0 will be Fedora.

The question I am still pondering is whether I should get an E3 Xeon
(no E3's with IGP are sold in my country),
an 6-core E5 Xeon
or AMD FX 8***,

being unsure whether the last one supports ECC(I know there are ASUS
mobos that do, but then again - BROKEN IVRS TABLES, so no IOMMU).
I've read mixed opinions about Gigabyte - some people stating official
emails that say that one or another 990FX mobo supports ECC, then
again on their website they say no such thing. So in the end some
people got ECC ram but were unsure if it runs with ECC or if it's
disabled.

And about needing more than 6 cores, I'd like to - but my budget is
tight so going 600 $ on the CPU is bad enough as it is, since I have
to buy expensive mobo(300-350$) and ram too.
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