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

 

[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...

 

[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