- May 28, 2007
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I'm working on my ESXi rig and I've ran myself (maybe) into a hole. I've thought about going from a C2D quad to a dual dual core LGA 771 system. The PSU I have is an NSPire NSP-405V2.0F12.
Proposed system specs:
Intel S5000SPL mainboard (yes I know i'd need a converter for the 8pin)
4 500GB Western Digital Blue single platter HD's in RAID 0 (.65A 5V and .5A 12V)
LSI Megaraid 8308ELP SAS card (PCI-E 4x) that staggers the spinup of the drives.
Dual LGA 771 5140 dual core xeon processors (2.33Ghz dual core x2, 65nm)
1 DVD-RW Sata drive (rarely used, only when ripping or loading iso's into esxi)
8GB (2x4GB) DDR 800 FB-DIMM, possibly going up to 16GB (4x4GB DDR800 FB-DIMM)
The system is running ESXi, so it's not going to be hard core flogged. It's a test rig, not an enterprise system.
The PSU specs are as follows:
3.3V at 18A (peak 25A)
5V at 28A (peak 30A)
+12V1 at 18A (peak 20A)
+12V2 at 18A (peak 20A)
12V1+12V2 max 27A (peak 31A)
Continuous power 405W, peak power (for 60 seconds) 505W.
Is it enough? I want to say it is as I have a WHS server that's pulling 110W from the wall idle and 185W under full load in WHS. It has:
Athlon X2 5800+
2GB DDR2 800 RAM
2x2TB WD Green drives, 1x1TB Seagate 1TB, 1x320GB WD 7200 RPM, 1x160GB WD 7200 RPM
1 SATA DVD-RW
3 120mm fans, 1 92mm, 2 80mm.
Proposed system specs:
Intel S5000SPL mainboard (yes I know i'd need a converter for the 8pin)
4 500GB Western Digital Blue single platter HD's in RAID 0 (.65A 5V and .5A 12V)
LSI Megaraid 8308ELP SAS card (PCI-E 4x) that staggers the spinup of the drives.
Dual LGA 771 5140 dual core xeon processors (2.33Ghz dual core x2, 65nm)
1 DVD-RW Sata drive (rarely used, only when ripping or loading iso's into esxi)
8GB (2x4GB) DDR 800 FB-DIMM, possibly going up to 16GB (4x4GB DDR800 FB-DIMM)
The system is running ESXi, so it's not going to be hard core flogged. It's a test rig, not an enterprise system.
The PSU specs are as follows:
3.3V at 18A (peak 25A)
5V at 28A (peak 30A)
+12V1 at 18A (peak 20A)
+12V2 at 18A (peak 20A)
12V1+12V2 max 27A (peak 31A)
Continuous power 405W, peak power (for 60 seconds) 505W.
Is it enough? I want to say it is as I have a WHS server that's pulling 110W from the wall idle and 185W under full load in WHS. It has:
Athlon X2 5800+
2GB DDR2 800 RAM
2x2TB WD Green drives, 1x1TB Seagate 1TB, 1x320GB WD 7200 RPM, 1x160GB WD 7200 RPM
1 SATA DVD-RW
3 120mm fans, 1 92mm, 2 80mm.
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