Recommend a configuration for a Xeon server

Question

Intel

I'm building a server for computing under Windows, applications support multithreading. At the moment, if you assemble on one socket, then I want to take the Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 , the top one turns out. You also need to consider that you will need at least 3 PCI-E x16 slots and 64GB of RAM. Can you recommend a mother for him? Also, the question is whether it makes sense for this money to assemble 2 socket server, which system will be more productive?

Answer 1

If you already choose a motherboard for a server for computing with multithreading, then it is better to choose two processors to distribute the load between the processors. I can offer you this mother for the specified processor:

http://www.nix.ru/autocatalog/motherboards_supermicro/SuperMicro_X9DRiLN4F_Dual_LGA2011_C602_4xPCIE_4xGbLAN_SATA_RAID_EEATX_24DDRIII_150242.html