Xeon Owners Club

[Toothless]

Guys I'm after a penny for your thoughts....

One of my close friends is rather poorly, I'm trying to do something nice for him as he's locked in at home and can't go anywhere but to hospital so I'd like to try and donate him a PC that I can use my spare parts from and get him something a little special.. Something that's a little me in there for him... I mean by that, completely daft and stupid basically

I'm having a bit of a dilemma with what CPU to put in the rig for him.. I've got a X79 board, so I'm aiming for at least USB 3, as he's never had anything above USB 2.. And I'm looking for a CPU that has a decent amount of cores, that pretty quick and will do pretty much anything he needs.. As he's no gamer I don't believe that full on clock speed would be required, so the low/mid 3.0GHz ish area, I think would be more than enough. It's a shame that I can't give him an X99 board, but I don't have the DDR4 spare So I'm kinda looking around these sorts of CPUs...

Xeon E5-2650 v2 8C 16T 95w
Xeon E5 2658 V2 10C 20T 95w
Xeon E5-2660 v2 10C 20T 95w

My question to you, is which would you put in the rig?? I'll be using a Gigabyte X79 UD3 (I think!) board.. I'm looking at water cooling the CPU and a GPU which has a full block on it.. As I don't happen to have a spare high core count CPU, I'm looking to try and buy one as cheaply but quickly as possible... I also have to remember or find out, if normal DDR3 will work with the Xeon (I'm pretty sure it would??) as I've got some server DDR3, but I'm not sure if it would work with the board... It didn't with my MSI X99 Gaming Titanium sadly...

A penny for your thoughts guys

Depends on the use case. My 2680v2's will go to 3.1 all cores or 3.4 on a few. I won't do any intense gaming on them but for multi threaded or multitask stuff it's great. As others have said yeah the 2650v2 would work however look at the 2678wv2 (I think that's what it's called, or 2687wv2) for best of both worlds.

EDIT: 2687w V2. 4ghz boost on 8c/16t. Just gotta keep it cool with the 150tdp.

 

[KLiKzg]

Can I join in a club with this personal collection?

List is from "asteroids@home":

 

[Zyll Goliat]

Can I join in a club with this personal collection?

List is from "asteroids@home":

As long as you have any of the Xeon's cpu's you are more then welcome in here....dobro nam dosao

 

[masterdeejay]

Huananzhi X99-TF Motherboard Review (Easily the BEST $100 Mobo on Aliexpress!)

https://xeon-e5450.ru/socket-2011-3/huananzhi-gaming-x99-tf/
best price/perfomance motherboard for the 2011v3 Xeons!
but i think the vrm needs better heatsink not two little fans, the bios can be better but there a lot of modded bios for the board.
The second best on my list is the X99Z V102 budget motherboard and the next is X99Z V500 and these two uses the modded TF bios.

 

[bobbybluz]

Does anybody happen to know if the plastic LGA 2011 socket cover is the same as one for a 2011-3? I've found three for a 2011 so far but can't find any of the two I have for a 2011-3 and I need one for a 2011-3 mobo. Never let your wife move things without telling you first.

 

[bobbybluz]

I found the socket cover and have an ASRock X99 Extreme4/3.1 on the way. It appears the E5-2678V3 gives the best bang for the buck ($84 on Ebay at the moment). Any thoughts?

 

[masterdeejay]

I found the socket cover and have an ASRock X99 Extreme4/3.1 on the way. It appears the E5-2678V3 gives the best bang for the buck ($84 on Ebay at the moment). Any thoughts?

That is the best yes. 3.3ghz all core turbo if you use the all core bios hack.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I found the socket cover and have an ASRock X99 Extreme4/3.1 on the way. It appears the E5-2678V3 gives the best bang for the buck ($84 on Ebay at the moment). Any thoughts?

That is the best yes. 3.3ghz all core turbo if you use the all core bios hack.

It's better to use a Xeon E5-2667v3 with that board. 8core CPU that has a higher stock clocks & higher potential OC.

 

[masterdeejay]

It's better to use a Xeon E5-2667v3 with that board. 8core CPU that has a higher stock clocks & higher potential OC.

And where can you buy under 84 usd?

 

[bobbybluz]

I'm going to be using this one for A/V production work. I want the extra cores, I already have a 4.7Ghz 5960X in X99 and two 4.7Ghz 1680 V2's in X79. 12 cores for less than $85 sounds great but now I'm looking at 14 core E5-2683 V3's. Slower clock speed (less heat to get rid of) but two more cores to do work. Things begin to get a rapidly more expensive on Ebay after the E5-2683 V3 as the core count increases. There are several 2683 V3's in the "best offer" category and from past experience sooner or later somebody will take a lowball offer within $20-25 of a 12 core 2678 V3.
With the BIOS mod 3.1 Ghz is possible on all cores. That's fresh territory for me but doesn't look extremely complicated. 12-14 cores @3 Ghz or so for slightly more than $100 sounds like a fun project.

 

[Edwired]

I think it gone mad lately with cpu and gpu prices like example

NEW Asus ROG STRIX GeForce RTX 2080 TI Graphics Cards 11GB GDDR6 RTX2080TI | eBay

NEW Asus ROG STRIX GeForce RTX 2080 TI Graphics Cards 11GB GDDR6 RTX2080TI | Computers/Tablets & Networking, Computer Components & Parts, Graphics/Video Cards | eBay!

www.ebay.ie

Who in the right mind to buy that for that price it insane it daylight robbery

 

[lexluthermiester]

And where can you buy under 84 usd?

Oh wow! Good point. Hadn't checked prices.. and DAMN! They were cheaper not to long ago..

 

[bobbybluz]

I scored a 14 core E5 1683 V3 for $99 off Ebay yesterday afternoon and already have it in my possession. The RAM is due tomorrow and mobo Saturday.

 

[KLiKzg]

Just scored a replacement Intel DP35DP board for my trusty Xeon for $20.

But the Intel board & it's cap just wouldn't give up...can you imagine it still works?

 

[lexluthermiester]

But the Intel board & it's cap just wouldn't give up...can you imagine it still works?

That is fairly amazing. I'd recap it though if you intend to keep and use it.

 

[KLiKzg]

That is fairly amazing. I'd recap it though if you intend to keep and use it.

Old board is scheduled for recap.

Replacement just got put in the same system, works like a charm.

One question though...has anyone here got Q9550S to work with Windows10? ‍

 

[lexluthermiester]

One question though...has anyone here got Q9550S to work with Windows10?

Should work fine. Are you expecting any issues?

 

[Toothless]

Need a couple PCI and EPS extensions to tidy up the front and coolers.

 

[masterdeejay]

Today I ordered the cheapest 2011 socket motherboard on ali. If i get it i will post some screenshots, bios, cpu support etc.
X79 V2.73 ITX

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001321699528.html
That is 44 usd with post.
It is cut down version of 2.72.
Chipset is probably C222
Audio is ALC662
Gigabit lan is the same Realtek 8111h as on many chinese boards
M2 Sata/nvme modes jumpers not auto detect.
Ram dual channel 2x16gb max

 

[KLiKzg]

Should work fine. Are you expecting any issues?

Tried to put it in DP35DP Intel board...works just fine with mbo.

Problem is that Windows 10 wouldn't boot.
Even though Q9550S is "low TDP" version of X3360.

Found this: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000006105/processors.html
Though for those only normal CPUs don't work, but Xeons work normally.

But now I found out this, maybe I should check it out:

Solved : Upgrade fails with NX bit not supported error on CPU with NX, PAE and SSE2 support as verified by MS coreinfo tool.

And fresh win 10 bootable iso install works fine too, but i cant activate it using my win 7 key since i have an oem pre installed version of windows 7. So win 10 works fine, but i cant activate it

answers.microsoft.com

 

[phill]

Need a couple PCI and EPS extensions to tidy up and front and coolers.

I just love these boards and setup

What is the case you have there sir @Toothless ?? What do you use the system for?

 

[Toothless]

I just love these boards and setup

What is the case you have there sir @Toothless ?? What do you use the system for?

Nanoxia Deep silence 6

Virtual machines and game servers. I had to change the power on to the reset switch since my cat has shut down the entire thing twice because she needs her full food bowl filled.

 

[phill]

I thought it looked familiar... I had one of them a long time ago. I couldn't get on with it with the lack of water cooling space and considering the size of the thing.. Little dissapointed if I'm honest.. Can't for the life of me remember at the moment where it ended up...

Glad to see its getting some good use In your sig you have a 2680 V2, do you use that for similar things? (Apologies for being nosey, just interested in what people do with their machines )

 

[Toothless]

I thought it looked familiar... I had one of them a long time ago. I couldn't get on with it with the lack of water cooling space and considering the size of the thing.. Little dissapointed if I'm honest.. Can't for the life of me remember at the moment where it ended up...

Glad to see its getting some good use In your sig you have a 2680 V2, do you use that for similar things? (Apologies for being nosey, just interested in what people do with their machines )

The 2680v2 is at my girlfriend's desk for her video editing/rendering and in case we need more machines for games. As for the case I got it off a TPU guy here who is absolutely fantastic to chat and do sales with.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Tried to put it in DP35DP Intel board...works just fine with mbo.

Problem is that Windows 10 wouldn't boot.
Even though Q9550S is "low TDP" version of X3360.

Found this: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000006105/processors.html
Though for those only normal CPUs don't work, but Xeons work normally.

But now I found out this, maybe I should check it out:

Solved : Upgrade fails with NX bit not supported error on CPU with NX, PAE and SSE2 support as verified by MS coreinfo tool.

And fresh win 10 bootable iso install works fine too, but i cant activate it using my win 7 key since i have an oem pre installed version of windows 7. So win 10 works fine, but i cant activate it

answers.microsoft.com

Weird, it should still work. I've installed Win10 on a few different Core2Quad systems with no issues. Maybe a bios setting needs changing?