just bought an 8 core Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2630 v3 for £48 already have a gigabyte motherboard , 4x4 gb DDR. should be quite fast. wasnt going to use it for gaming. going to replace my dads aging windows 7 i5 650, and virtualise the windows 7 so can still use some legacy software. I assume thats why China are banging out these clone boards because the market is full of cheap 6 and 8 core cpus
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Cheap Xeon CPU
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Good work. My mum and her husband are now happily using a 4-core E3 something-or-other, as it was a cheap-ass upgrade to whatever i3 they had in their ancient Acer machine.
Recently grabbed a E5-1650 V2 (one of the few Xeons that are fully multi-unlocked) to stick in my existing X79 board - seems to be a monster chip so far - IMC is capable of more than my 2400MHz RAM can do and does nearly 4.7GHz on stock volts (possibly would do 4.7GHz on stock volts with better cooling).
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With a bios mod (your board may already have it) you’ll be able to unlock the v3 Xeon to all core 3.2GHz boost. Not a bad upgrade
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With a bios mod (your board may already have it) you’ll be able to unlock the v3 Xeon to all core 3.2GHz boost. Not a bad upgrade
Basically did something similar to my laptop (which can't really overclock) - surprising how well older i7's hold up even at those kind of speeds (albiet I use it as a mobile desktop rather than laptop these days
Wish Intel would bring out something like the X79 (V2) platform again hah - any other platform, even newer stuff, feels distinctly peasant like in comparison with the soldered TIM, reinforced CPU socket with built in backplate, plenty of PCI-e lanes, quad channel memory and support for higher bandwidth/frequency, Xeons having top tier silicon and lots of cores that run cool and overclock a ton, etc.
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Yeah know the feeling man. I have a 2673v 20c40t, can’t overclock it other than the BCLK but don’t fancy doing that as it’s in my server. Intel fixed the exploit after the V3’s and put out the 2679v4 in its place. From memory it has an all core turbo of 3.2 20c40t 200w. Think they’re around 400 quid now used which isn’t bad at all considering how decent the x99 platform is. As you said plenty of PCIe lanes. I have two GPUs, a bifurcated nvme riser, a single nvme riser and a 10G network card. The board has onboard graphics and a separate USB controller for VM pass through. Perfect for a server build and tinkering with VM’s. Great to be able to pass though 10c20t to the VM and still have 10c20t available for Jellyin and my other docker containers. Can change the core allocation when I need to. Playing with my Xeon, RAM and PCIe lanes has made me appreciate just much the Xeons can do. With enough GPUs and USB controllers why settle for one OS when you can have them all
