[stemmer]

The Xeon E3-1230 is quite similar to the I7-2600 cpu but doesn't have the integrated graphics feature and the Xeon sells for about $50-70 less then the I7-2600. And about $20 more then the I5-2500...

The Xeon is a quadcore like the I5 & I7 but like the I7 supports hyperthreading...

Can anyone recommend a good desktop mobo for this cpu? I don't want to purchase a server board as most server mobos require ECC memory...

Xeon E3-1230
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... %20e3-1230

I5-2500
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... 6819115073

I7-2600
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... 6819115071

This is to be used for 3D rendering and the 3D apps I use much prefer a Nvidia card over ATI or Intel integrated graphics because of CUDA support...


Thanks kindly

[BartSimpson]

This was what I bought from HP back in January for my gaming rig:

Quote:

HP Pavilion Elite HPE-490t series
• Genuine Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
• Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-970 six-core [3.2GHz, 1.5MB L2 + 12MB shared L3 cache]
• FREE UPGRADE! 10GB DDR3-1066MHz SDRAM [4 DIMMs] from 9GB
• FREE UPGRADE! 1.5TB 7200 rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive from 1TB
• No additional office software
• Norton Internet Security(TM) 2011 - 3 year
• 2GB ATI Radeon HD 5570 [DVI,HDMI, DP, VGA adapter]
• No speakers
• Blu-ray player & Lightscribe SuperMulti DVD burner
• Wireless-N LAN card
• 15-in-1 memory card reader, 1 USB, 1394, audio
• No TV Tuner
• Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer
• HP USB keyboard and optical mouse

It just made more sense to buy this out of the box because I saved close to $800 compared to building it myself. I haven't built a white box since about 2004 because right about then was when it became cheaper to just buy out of the box.

Give it some thought before you commit to a custom rig. Not saying to buy an HP, just be sure to compare before you buy.

[ShepherdsDog]

stemmer wrote:

The Xeon E3-1230 is quite similar to the I7-2600 cpu but doesn't have the integrated graphics feature and the Xeon sells for about $50-70 less then the I7-2600. And about $20 more then the I5-2500...

The Xeon is a quadcore like the I5 & I7 but like the I7 supports hyperthreading...

Can anyone recommend a good desktop mobo for this cpu? I don't want to purchase a server board as most server mobos require ECC memory...

Xeon E3-1230
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... %20e3-1230

I5-2500
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... 6819115073

I7-2600
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... 6819115071

This is to be used for 3D rendering and the 3D apps I use much prefer a Nvidia card over ATI or Intel integrated graphics because of CUDA support...


Thanks kindly

Matherly old boy, I think he's asking if he can buy your sister, or something along those lines...bloody savages, why can't they learn English?

[saturn_656]

I can't stomach paying what Intel asks for its CPU's. i7's especially.

There is no way they are worth what they are asking.

[raydan]

saturn_656 wrote:

I can't stomach paying what Intel asks for its CPU's. i7's especially.

There is no way they are worth what they are asking.

Time to get in the workshop and build your own.

[saturn_656]

raydan wrote:

saturn_656 wrote:

I can't stomach paying what Intel asks for its CPU's. i7's especially.

There is no way they are worth what they are asking.

Time to get in the workshop and build your own.

I do build my own. This is my "main rig". I also have a server built from the remains of my Compaq SR1934NX and an Athlon II X4 630 powered HTPC.

[Regina]

Some kid with glasses built my gaming computer, although Trevor gave the dream list of stuff to jam inside it. Now I can beat all the other kids with glasses.

[saturn_656]

As far Stemmer's search for a socket 1155 board, its kind of hard to make a recommendation as "we" don't know the size of the enclosure, nor what expansion cards he needs to plug into the board, nor the number and type of hard drives, nor what the desired price range is... and so on and so forth

It's all important stuff to think about when buying a mainboard.

[herbie]

Not a gamer myself.
The only Intel box I own is a Xeon 3 Ghz dualcore server I liquidated from a failed sawmill.
Using an AMD X6 1100 w 16 Gigs RAM for our design box at work, one of the techs used the same 8 Gig setup with some absurdly priced video card for his game box. Loves it.
The 1100 sells for about $225

[BartSimpson]

A favor to ask: Can someone scan IP address 158.96.14.6 and see if you can read the MAC address? I want to see if this is visible outside of our firewall. Thanks!

[DerbyX]

Country: United States United States
Country Code: US
Region: California
City: Elk Grove
Latitude: 38.3928
Longitude: -121.3678
Area Code: 916
DMA Code: 862

[BartSimpson]

Thanks, Derby!

What I was looking for was someone with an IP scanner (aka port scanner) to see if they can get the MAC address from the network interface card on that machine. It'd be a hexadecimal value if they can see it.

[DrCaleb]

BartSimpson wrote:

Thanks, Derby!

What I was looking for was someone with an IP scanner (aka port scanner) to see if they can get the MAC address from the network interface card on that machine. It'd be a hexadecimal value if they can see it.

MAC address shouldn't get forwarded past the first router. Only that router cares what the MAC is. You might have to scan it from something on the same network, if you want to see it.

[DrCaleb]

saturn_656 wrote:

raydan wrote:

saturn_656 wrote:

I can't stomach paying what Intel asks for its CPU's. i7's especially.

There is no way they are worth what they are asking.

Time to get in the workshop and build your own.

I do build my own. This is my "main rig". I also have a server built from the remains of my Compaq SR1934NX and an Athlon II X4 630 powered HTPC.

So, you want to compare clockspeeds, hmmm?

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For my server, it's 2 Quad core Xeons, with 32GB of RAM. VMWare ESXi 4.1 makes for about 16 server I can run virtually, safely.

I know Stemmer wanted Intel Processors, with NVidia for CUDA support - but why? There is no computer problem that can't be solved by putting a faster clock behind it!

[Elvis]

A quick scan show this

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Starting Nmap 5.21 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2011-06-29 17:05 EDT
NSE: Loaded 36 scripts for scanning.
Initiating Ping Scan at 17:05
Scanning 158.96.14.6 [8 ports]
Completed Ping Scan at 17:05, 0.02s elapsed (1 total hosts)
Initiating Parallel DNS resolution of 1 host. at 17:05
Completed Parallel DNS resolution of 1 host. at 17:05, 0.00s elapsed
Initiating SYN Stealth Scan at 17:05
Scanning 158.96.14.6 [1000 ports]
Discovered open port 80/tcp on 158.96.14.6
Completed SYN Stealth Scan at 17:05, 4.73s elapsed (1000 total ports)
Initiating Service scan at 17:05
Scanning 1 service on 158.96.14.6
Completed Service scan at 17:06, 51.07s elapsed (1 service on 1 host)
Initiating OS detection (try #1) against 158.96.14.6
Retrying OS detection (try #2) against 158.96.14.6
Initiating Traceroute at 17:06
Completed Traceroute at 17:06, 0.01s elapsed
Initiating Parallel DNS resolution of 1 host. at 17:06
Completed Parallel DNS resolution of 1 host. at 17:06, 0.00s elapsed
NSE: Script scanning 158.96.14.6.
NSE: Starting runlevel 1 (of 1) scan.
Initiating NSE at 17:06
Completed NSE at 17:06, 30.02s elapsed
NSE: Script Scanning completed.
Nmap scan report for 158.96.14.6
Host is up (0.00068s latency).
Not shown: 999 filtered ports
PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION
80/tcp open http-proxy Squid http proxy
| http-open-proxy: Potentially OPEN proxy.
|_Methods supported: GET HEAD
Warning: OSScan results may be unreliable because we could not find at least 1 open and 1 closed port
Aggressive OS guesses: Linux 2.6.25 (90%), Raritan Dominion KX II KVM switch (89%), Linksys WET54GS5 WAP or Xerox WorkCentre Pro 265 printer (89%), MicroTik RouterOS 2.9.46 (89%), Brocade SilkWorm switch (88%), Linux 2.4.32 (x86) (87%), Linux 2.6.16 (87%), Linux 2.4.9 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 AS) (87%), Linux 2.4.18 - 2.4.35 (likely embedded) (87%), Linux 2.4.21 (87%)
No exact OS matches for host (test conditions non-ideal).
Uptime guess: 156.100 days (since Mon Jan 24 13:42:52 2011)
Network Distance: 1 hop
TCP Sequence Prediction: Difficulty=203 (Good luck!)
IP ID Sequence Generation: All zeros

TRACEROUTE (using port 80/tcp)
HOP RTT ADDRESS
1 0.94 ms 158.96.14.6

Read data files from: /usr/share/nmap
OS and Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at http://nmap.org/submit/ .
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 89.89 seconds
Raw packets sent: 2075 (95.924KB) | Rcvd: 38 (1832B)

If you don't mind I will do a more comprehensive scan and tell you more tomorrow morning