Upgrade from i7 3960x to Xeon 2699v4

[ca1v]

Hi.

I am looking to buy a mobo,ram and cooler for my Xeon 2699v4.

I wanted to know what motherboard ram cooler combo you would go for?

I am looking at the gigabyte x99 P5 which is reduced at the moment.

I rarely game. It's a work station.
VMs.
Plex 4k transcoding.

Just want some ideas what other techs would get?

Thanks.

Cal.

 

[ca1v]

Difficult one, personally if i owned that cpu a reduced price on the board wouldn't influence my choice, i would be looking at the board with the best power and Vrm's, its a beast of a cpu and you dont want to be power throttling as it would negate any advantage of sur a high threaded cpu

I have emailed Gigabyte asking that very question about power throttling.