x99 ECC and Xeon

[rtho782]

I'm looking at a new motherboard/CPU, but I really want ECC ram. The idea of having more than 32GB and not having ECC just feels wrong to me.

So, I'm looking at LGA2011-3 Xeons, but it seems these are (all?) multiplier locked.

Is there such a thing as an overclockable Xeon?

 

[mmj_uk]

There might be some unlocked engineering samples knocking about but the consumers products will certainly all be locked and you'll struggle to find a server motherboard with overclocking support anyway.

X58 based Xeon's supposedly overclocked via the strap but they're old hat now and I'm not sure if mainstream boards would support ECC memory anyway; and server motherboards may not have the strap setting.

I think AMD FX8350 supports unregistered ECC so if you can find a motherboard that supports ECC too that's probably the best you're going to get overclocking wise.

 

[rtho782]

Some Asus x99 motherboards support Xeons, so my intention was a Xeon in an Asus x99 board with ECC ram. Don't really want to only overclock via bclk, so I guess maybe I need to give up on ECC.

Shame, you'd think ECC would have made it to consumers by now.

 

[mmj_uk]

They support Xeon's but AFAIK most consumer motherboards don't support ECC memory. I think the Asus Workstation boards support ECC but Xeon's won't overclock, you just can't have best of both worlds unfortunately.

 

[easyrider]

Why 32gb ram ?

 

[rtho782]

Ramdisks and VMs

 

[mmj_uk]

Have you considered AMD Opteron? they might suck IPC-wise but you'll get loads moar cores for your money.

 

[colinmcr]

I have a very mild blk OC of my ES Xeon 14 cores on the Asus Z10PE-D8-WS