Description:

Back in 2008 I bought motherboard which support 24GB memory, in that time it was incredible much for me, but last four years I had not enough memory for my work. And today I completely replaced my hardware platform.


Old computer:

  • CPU: Xeon x5650
  • Motherboard: Asus P6T7 WS SuperComputer
  • RAM: Corsair Vengeance 4GB DDR3 (CMZ24GX3M6A1600C9) x6
  • HDD: Adaptec 6805, RAID 50, Western Digital RE3 1TB (WD1002FBYS) x8
  • Video: Gigabyte R9 280X (GV-R928XOC-3GD) x2
  • Chassis: Antec Twelve Hundred


New computer:

  • CPU: Xeon x5650 x2
  • Motherboard: Supermicro X8DTH-6F
  • RAM: Kingston 16GB DDR3 ECC (KVR13LR9D4/16) x4
  • HDD: Adaptec 6805, RAID 50, Western Digital RE3 1TB (WD1002FBYS) x8
  • Video: Integrated Matrox G200eW
  • Chassis: SuperMicro SuperChassis 4U (CSE-743TQ-865B-SQ)


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