I received the motherboard, cpu, heat sink, and some 600 GB hard drives from InsaneJ 3 days ago. Since then I've assembled the server.

Currently the specs are:

- MSI X99A SLI PLUS Motherboard

- Intel Xeon Processor E5-2680 v4
  • 28 Threads
  • 14 Cores
  • Normally 2.40 GHz base frequency (2.20 GHz base as it's an ES chip), Possible 3.30 GHz Max Turbo


- SuperMicro CSE-743TQ Black 4U Chassis
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- 2x Seagate Enterprise Capacity 6TB 7.2K RPM SAS 256MB Cache 512e HDD
- 2x Western Digital VelociRaptor 600GB 10k RPM SATA 32MB Cache HDD

- 4x Crucial 16GB 2400 MHz DDR4 RAM

- Dell ATI Radeon B120 256MB Graphics Card

- LSI Megaraid SAS 9260-8i SATA/SAS Controller 6G Raid Card


The HDDs will be put into 2 arrays running Raid 1. Currently we're working on running ESXi with VMWare controlling a couple of virtual machines (which we already do for Ark)

Setting everything up will take some time, please bear with us