Xeon Upgrade for Intel i7-5930K

[Danger Phoenix]

My PC is getting a bit old now and CPU is often getting maxed out (Windows VMs, Plex Server, Docker Containers etc.) so I'm thinking of upgrading the CPU and RAM.

Current Hardware:

• Asus TUF X99 Sabertooth Intel X99 (Socket 2011) DDR4 ATX Motherboard
• Intel i7-5930K 3.50GHz (Haswell-E) Socket LGA2011-V3 Processor
• Corsair Vengeance 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4 PC4-21300C15 2666MHz Quad Channel Kit
• MSI GeForce GTX 980Ti Gaming 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card

RAM from 32GB to 64GB is easy enough, but in terms of the CPU I am a little lost. There are so many E5 LGA2011-V3 variants and after spending a day Googling, I'm probably more confused than before.

From what I can tell, maybe a E5-26xx v4?

 

[Danger Phoenix]

From a quick search, think I would go for: Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2680 v4 (14 core). I would make sure its on the supported list first though. The Intel Xeon E5-2699 V3 (SR1XD) 2.30GHz 18-Core LGA2011-3 CPU is also a cheap option.

Both are supporting according to:

SABERTOOTH X99 - Support

www.asus.com

 

[Danger Phoenix]

That reminds me, I didn't mention my other use case... I do run a few Windows VMs.

 

[Danger Phoenix]

For now, I just want to upgrade the CPU and add more RAM. It is going to be the cheapest, easiest and quickest to do.