…workstation requires two! ;) i had some time over Christmas to finally build myself following beast:
- Asus Z9PE-D8 WS (BIOS 5304, original 3304 had some interesting bugs
- Xeon E5 2660 (Sandy Bridge EP/EX) - 16 cores, 32 HT
- Corsair H80i for CPU cooling
- 64GB RAMu (8x 8GB DDR3 1600 ECC)
- OWC 480GB PCIe - has two 240GB blades in RAID0
- Corsair Obsidian 900D
- 2x Seagate 4TB HDD
- [6x Samsung 2TB]
- LSI 9261-8i to drive those mechanical disks in RAID5
- Creative SB ZX
- AMD Radeon 7970 connected to three Dell U2412 monitors
- Intel x520 NIC connected to Catalyst 2960S and to other workstation - Xeon 5670, 48GB RAMu, OWC 240GB as boot and two 2TB RAID0 disks as RAID0 for ESXi 5.5
as we sometimes laugh with each other - ‘it opens Total Commander pretty bloody fast’. VMware Workstation 10 orchestrates number of VMs running at the same time and i can still use workstation as normal desktop. Visual Studio 2013 is able to compile whole projects in a blink of an eye.
what else can you need? maybe some additional time to spend it with such PC :)