Soldato
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Unlike previous generations, the xeons cannot be used with mainstream socket 1151 boards and require specific socket C232 motherboards.
Looking specifically at the quad core xeons with hyper threading, they are significantly cheaper (£50+) and will also be slightly better clock for clock due to the additional cache. This is at the expense of the igpu, which won't be a big deal to many of us.
http://ark.intel.com/products/88182/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E3-1230-v5-8M-Cache-3_40-GHz
Asrock have a motherboard which will allow bclk overclocking of the xeons named ASRock Fatal1ty E3V5 Performance Gaming/OC.
This also allows 8x 8x Pcie 3.0 crossfire configurations. It has the same features you'd expect of a Z/H107 board.
A downside though is the 4+1 vrms, which is pretty bad for clocking. Asus has a board with 8+2, but can only run x16 x4 pcie and doesn't allow bclk overclocking.
I'd certainly consider this if they become more availale, as I can't fine the ASROCK board for sale anywhere.
Looking specifically at the quad core xeons with hyper threading, they are significantly cheaper (£50+) and will also be slightly better clock for clock due to the additional cache. This is at the expense of the igpu, which won't be a big deal to many of us.
http://ark.intel.com/products/88182/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E3-1230-v5-8M-Cache-3_40-GHz
Asrock have a motherboard which will allow bclk overclocking of the xeons named ASRock Fatal1ty E3V5 Performance Gaming/OC.
This also allows 8x 8x Pcie 3.0 crossfire configurations. It has the same features you'd expect of a Z/H107 board.
A downside though is the 4+1 vrms, which is pretty bad for clocking. Asus has a board with 8+2, but can only run x16 x4 pcie and doesn't allow bclk overclocking.
I'd certainly consider this if they become more availale, as I can't fine the ASROCK board for sale anywhere.