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Parts List

• SilverStone Case Storage Series SST-CS380 Black Plastic front door, steel body ATX Mid Tower Computer Case Standard PS2(ATX) Power Supply 8 hot swap SATA bays
• Supermicro Motherboard MBD-X11SSM-F-B Xeon E3-1200 v5 LGA1151 Socket H4 C236 PCI Express SATA MicroATX
• Intel Xeon E3-1230 Processors BX80677E31230V6
• Supermicro 16GB 288-Pin DDR4 2666 (PC4-21300) Server Memory (MEM-DR416L-CV02-EU26) * 2 for 32gig memory
• Hitachi Deskstar (0F12450) 3TB 64MB 7200RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Desktop Hard Drive 8 of these. I'll swap in some WD Red when I'm done experimenting.

I had a SUPERMICRO MBD-X9SCL LGA1155 Intel C202 Micro ATX Motherboard XEON E3-1230V2 which seemed adequate but I had some strange problems. In the Truenas forums see; Add user results in KDB: enter: panic

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Dell Precision T7600 Workstation

Swapped out the Xeon E5-2620 for a pair of Xeon QBEB Confidential CPU E5-2680 2.7 GHz 20MB 8-Cores LGA 2011 and 64gig Memory.

Parts List

• Dell Precision T7600 Workstation
• Pair of Intel Xeon QBEB Confidential CPU E5-2680 2.7 GHz 20MB 8-Cores LGA 2011

Documentation

• Hardware Specifications for the Precision T7600 Desktop Workstation

HP Z840

24 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v3 @ 2.40GHz (2 Sockets)

64 gig RAM

1 root@prox2:~# lspci | grep -i --color 'vga\|3d\|2d'
2 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] (rev a2)
3 84:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107GL [Quadro 410] (rev a1)
4 root@prox2:~#

1 root@prox2:~# dmesg | grep -e DMAR -e IOMMU
2 [...]
3 [    0.261560] DMAR: IOMMU enabled
4 [...]
5 root@prox2:~#

Passthrough USB (face)

1 root@pve2:~# qm set 100 -usb0 host=2-10,usb3=1
2 update VM 100: -usb0 host=2-10,usb3=1
3 root@pve2:~# qm set 100 -usb0 host=2-13.1,usb3=1
4 update VM 100: -usb0 host=2-13.1,usb3=1
5 root@pve2:~# qm set 100 -usb0 host=2-14,usb3=1
6 update VM 100: -usb0 host=2-14,usb3=1
7 root@pve2:~# qm set 100 -usb0 host=2-9,usb3=1
8 update VM 100: -usb0 host=2-9,usb3=1
9 root@pve2:~#

HP Z840 Resources

How to upgrade the power supply in HP Z840 to 1125W PSU | Don't make my mistake! from Art of Server