takeawaydave Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 Hi - been working on getting an upgrade together for my current workstation. Not having a huge budget and needing as much bang for buck I want to keep as much as possible and replace as little as possible (red goes, green stays): Asus P5Q Pro Intel P45 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 LGA775 'Yorkfield' 2.83GHz 12MB-cache (1333FSB) Processor OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-8500C5 1066MHz Dual Channel Platinum Series DDR2 NVidia GeForce 8800 GTX Samsung 830 128 GB SSD Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB 10000RPM SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM 2 - Western Digital Caviar Green WD20EARS 2TB 2 - Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA-II Lian-Li PC-B25B Aluminium Midi-Tower - Black (No PSU) Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme CPU Cooler (Socket AM2/LGA775) Samsung SH-S223F/BEBE 22x DVDąRW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM Noctua NF-S12 800RPM 120mm Silent Case Fan - 3 Pin Hiper 630W HPU-4M630 SLi Certified PSU The new hardware that I am so far gravitating towards is as follows: Supermicro X9SRA Intel Xeon Processor E5-2620 2 x Kingston ValueRAM - ECC Memory - 16 GB - DIMM AMD FirePro V4900 Professional Graphics Supermicro SNK-P0050AP4 - Cooler I would use a number of VM's for development purposes (using RHEL, Windows Server for work) and then ML as my everyday machine (photo editing with Aperture, web surfing, a little video editing). With little experience on the VMware ESX side any feedback would be most appreciated; specifically around how to get sound the ALC889 working in ML - would it be possible to do iopath/passthrough with sound ? I have seen evidence of the V4900 GPU working being passed through to VM from ESX here: https://docs.google....d1alRUTlE#gid=0 and working in ML here: http://www.insanelym...00#entry1897975 Finally wireless; I am currently using a Linksys WMP300N - would passthrough be possible here. I suspect not from what I have read plus only two passthroughs are allowed per VM. Otherwise I would be going with this a WUMC710. Advice would be most appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
takeawaydave Posted April 6, 2013 Author Share Posted April 6, 2013 No one know anything about this I guess.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sebus Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 As exciting as it might be (or was in my case...), it is way easier to just have native OSX & not bother with virtualizing it Any specific reason you want/need to have ESXi in the way? - especially that you are aiming for only 16 GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
takeawaydave Posted April 7, 2013 Author Share Posted April 7, 2013 Thanks sebus.. I was aiming at actually 2 x 16 GB with a view to getting some more if needed and breaking the cost as well. But as you say it really needed ? I would probably be keeping a native OS X partition as it is any way and having a dual boot (via boot bios option). But the only real reason are is that I can and secondly to learn some more about this virtualisation technology... The downsides I can see with such a setup is not being able to put the whole system in to standby (sleep) but tell me what other pains did you encounter ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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