Gaming LGA 2011-v3 installing XEON any experience?

[edscdk]

I notice cheap £100 2011-v3 floating round...

a lot of the cheap Xeon's I'm finding don't appear on the CPU compatibility list of the mobos. (im guessing maybe intel release so many variations they don't keep the lists up to date)

Anyone have any experience with how compatible these cpus / boards are? I'm Sort of assuming as long and I don't pick a very new CPU or with with excessive power requirements i'll be ok?

EG ASUS X99-A USB 3.1 LGA 2011-v3 does not list "Xeon E5 2650 V3" but its an average CPU and the board supports newer and older models...

I'm looking to replace a dual hex x5650 with some thing a little smaller / faster / cooler

 

[Caracus2k]

I notice cheap £100 2011-v3 floating round...

a lot of the cheap Xeon's I'm finding don't appear on the CPU compatibility list of the mobos. (im guessing maybe intel release so many variations they don't keep the lists up to date)

Anyone have any experience with how compatible these cpus / boards are? I'm Sort of assuming as long and I don't pick a very new CPU or with with excessive power requirements i'll be ok?

EG ASUS X99-A USB 3.1 LGA 2011-v3 does not list "Xeon E5 2650 V3" but its an average CPU and the board supports newer and older models...

I'm looking to replace a dual hex x5650 with some thing a little smaller / faster / cooler

Given that the compatibility chart specifically does list the E5 2650L V3 and that the 'L' stands for 'low power' I would not suggest even trying the 'higher power' variant...

It likely the system will just plain refuse to POST properly as the motherboard BIOS knows its not a compatible CPU (like if you tried to put an Broadwell-E CPU into a motherboards with a Haswell-E launch era bios it would normally just refuse to start up at all until the bios was updated)

 

[bimbleuk]

The cheap ones available on that certain site are engineering samples (The ones ~£85 E5 2630L v3) and work fine for games that don't require a particularly fast CPU. I use one in a Gigabyte X99 board with an RX480 and run all the sim racing games I play fine on my 2560x1080 UW monitor.

GA-X99-UD4
GA-X99-Gaming 5P
GA-X99 Ultimate
MSI X99S SLI PLUS

Motherboards I know work with Xeon processors to date. The ones stating 1.8 GHz will clock to 2.5 on two cores then 2.4 for the next too and so on as more cores get loaded.

So Gigabyte and MSi are very compatible. Asrock I've read work well. Asus don't seem to support them.

 

[edscdk]

The cheap ones available on that certain site are engineering samples (The ones ~£85 E5 2630L v3) and work fine for games that don't require a particularly fast CPU.

nice info, never spotted the ES...

 

[bimbleuk]

They were $600 parts when full retail so quite a saving despite the slower core speeds. All I needed at the time was a 5/6 PCI-E slot boards with high quality components that could run 24/7 at a constant power draw and not blow up! B Grade X99 boards were available but processors to match weren't so these were ideal to get the the systems up n running.

 

[edscdk]

A stroke of genius (rather obvious) I Googled T5600 e5-2670 (the machine name and the CPU that's not on the supported list).. Loads of hits of them for sale so i picked up a pair of e5-2670 dropped them in works no issues

 

[ZXSpectrum]

I bought one of them for my media server.. Got it for £48 delivered from the US, got 16Gb DDR3 ECC REG for £18 Delivered and got most other parts for free. Works fantastic... Understandably not that energy efficient but its got 13 HDDs in the system so it was never going to be quiet but its in another room.

The only issue with the E5 CPUs as well as I7-3xxx and 4xxx series CPUS is that the boards are like rocking horse poo and people want silly money for them.