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I need help. I found a cheap 15-core E7-4880v2 15 core for $15 on ebay, and i want to build a server-esqe PC for very heavy use applications my gaming pc can't deal with. I found a dual-slot C602j, which i've seen is the only support chipset for the cpu, but i've seen that E7's only support quad-socket boards, and those cost thousands. Would it support this Supermicro board support it? Thanks CPU: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Xeon-E7-4880-v2-15-Core-2-50GHz-SR1GM-LGA2011-37-5MB-Cache-Processor-CPU/184256055229 Board: https://www.ebay.com/itm/SUPERMICRO-X9DRL-7F-Dual-socket-LGA-2011-C602J-chipset-Motherboard/264717677143?hash=item3da2673257:g:4R4AAOSwHkherEan

It's my first time posting in Linus Tech Tips forum. I had this account for a while, but this is my first time posting something so I'm sorry for any mistakes I make. Anyways my old ASRock B75M-GL R2.0 motherboard still refuses to die and I like pushing stuff to it's limits. After fast googling I found out that I7-3770 is a bit more powerful than my current xeon. Is there any sense in upgrading to the i7? I have a RTX 2060 and 16GB of DDR3 1600 RAM in this box of junk. The idea is to squeeze every little bit of performance my current motherboard allows. i7-3770k run through my mind at one point, but even if I manage to overclock it, the motherboard will just die I think, because it's half dead and some of the USB ports aren't working etc.

Hi there. I am once again in need of help lol. As i've calculated on my ryzen build on pcpartpicker.com it estimatedly eats about 394 watts at max.. That was a bit too much for me so I made an ancient xeon build but same here, its tdp was 400+ watts (Idk the exact wattage since the mobo I want isnt on the site) But the Question im really asking is. Do motherboards consume power or is it just the ammount of tdp of the cpu it supports thats taken account in the wattage estimator in pcpartpicker? Thanks for reading once again and hopefully you guys can help me out.

Hello. I'm going to build a new PC. I really liked the lga 2011 platform, because of the low cost of xeon. To various models of Motherboard, some dubious models. The brand that most caught my attention was Huananzhi, but there are many models of that brand (the models are listed below). I want to know the difference between these models. Benefits / harms, supports overclocking, among others. Thankful. Manufacturer's website: http://www.huananzhi.com/html/1/183/index.html X79 Deluxe Motherboard X99-TF MOTHERBOARD X99-AD3 V3.0Motherboard X99-T8 Motherboard X99-AD3 Motherboard X79 2.49 Motherboard X79 2.49 Motherboard V2.1 X79 PLUS Motherboard X79 PRO Motherboard

Hey all, I got a really weird/specific/technical question. Since I've been super bored lately I've been keeping myself busy by upgrading the hell out of an old HP Compaq Elite 8100 SFF prebuilt for fun. Gotta spend your tax return money somehow right? Anyways, here's the backstory. So after a lot of shopping on Ebay I finally got the thing max spec'd. 16GB RAM, Geforce GTX 1650 LP, 240GB SSD, and an Intel Xeon X3480. Bear with me, the important part of all this is the X3480. You see, HP lists the max CPU officially supported for this old guy as an i7-870, reasonable. However, after upgrading to the latest BIOS (v01.13 released in Q2 2011, after the release of the X3480) that's no longer the case. I guess HP decided to be very generous with this last BIOS update and whitelist ALL 95W LGA 1156 CPU's for this board, including Lynnfield-based Xeons apparently. There's technically no reason why the CPU shouldn't have worked, Q57 officially supports the X3480, but usually manufacturers lock you out of installing Xeons so you have to buy their more expensive workstations. Anyways let's continue, the performance of the X3480 is all well and good, but as a silicon-based Dr. Frankenstein, It's never enough. So I ordered the motherboard of an Elite 8200 prebuilt. Unsurprisingly, the 8100 and 8200 are basically the same machine save for the CPU platform it's built off of (8100 has the Q57 chipset, 8200 has Q67). So the 8200 motherboard drops right into the 8100 chassis, same onboard connectors, mounting points, voltage requirements, rear I/O, it's pretty much just the 8100 motherboard except it supports Sandy Bridge CPU's. So here's my question. If HP says that the max CPU supported for the 8200 is the i7-2600, and the latest BIOS update was in 2016, based off the 8100 Xeon upgrade, would it be too far-fetched to think I could get a Xeon E3-1290 running on the board? It's 32nm, Socket 1155, has a 95W TDP, all the same as the i7-2600 (of course this all hinges on HP allowing the thing to run in BIOS). Here's what has me convinced this might be possible, so the Intel Desktop Board DQ67SW, which has the reference Q67 chipset, officially supports the Xeon E3-1260L as per this link. This means the Q67 chipset is able to run Xeon part numbers. The board also officially supports the i7-2700K, a 95W part, which means Q67 has full 95W processor support. Official Xeon part number support + 95W TDP support = decent chance of E3-1290 support right? (again, all hinging on HP whitelisting the part #s) So here's what I have on the way right now, the 8200 motherboard, an i3-2100 to just get the board running so I can mess with the BIOS, a Xeon E3-1290, and a i7-2700K as a backup in case the Xeon doesn't play nice (inb4 the 2700K doesn't work either). I'll keep the thread updated until the project is finished, good or bad. See ya! (PS; would this mean that the E3-1290 could be called the i7-2700P? Since at the time P suffix processors meant their iGPUs were disabled and their base/boost clocks upped by 100MHz? Lmao just a thought)

I have a Xeon e3-1230 and I believe it can support the q65 chipset. I want to know if it can support the Q67 chipset. I have a dq67sw motherboard but I don't have any coffee filters so I want to be careful in choosing a mobo.

I have a Dell Precision T5500 mobo and a W3670 Xeon. It does not seem to work right. Another Xeon works fine, which leads me believe that the mobo is good. Would an outdated bios be it? Any help would be great as this is my primary PC.

Im cheap, and i was needing an performance upgrade for my old system, i5 4460. I gathered on my motherboard cpu compatibility list and searched then on Ali express, did some performance research and found the Xeon E3-1270V3. My research showed its performance its higher than a 4770k and almost 2x performance from my old processor so i bought for US$75 (a 4770k is around 130$) it and installed on my system. I thought its wold be a simple upgrade without need replace my Intel coolerbox since Intel Ark was showing these performance numbers: Intel® Core™ i5-4460 Processor - TDP 84W - Thermal Solution Specification PCG 2013D Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1270 v3 - TDP 80W - Thermal Solution Specification PCG 2013D It was not.... this Xeon is a beast, its TDP must be around 120~140w at full load. Ark must be wrong! When i installed the CPU and made the first Run its immediately hard throttled at 95ºC. So i bought a greater cooler (dont forget im cheap), got a Coolermaster T2 (it was a recommendation from a friend he runs an old AMD at 140w on it). With the new cooler the thermal performance is better running around 78 to 84ºC (1% low - 88ºC) on full load stress test. But it runs loud and hot and my research showed haswell generation doesn't like running this hot. Some questions: Maybe its a scan from Aliexpress? But the performace is right 750 points on cinebench r15. There is some way to improve these thermals? My Case is fine a lot of airflow. Its safe run this generation at these temps? Anyone knows if i can undervolt this processor? Why Ark is wrong? Thx obs: im not a english native speaker so sorry for anything wrong.

I bought Asus x99 Deluxe and i want to purchase e5 Xeon but some of the e5 v3 xeons are not on the supported list (2660v3,2678v3,2690v3) for example). Can someone confirm if they had success with these "unsupported" xeons? Thanks!

Hello guys, last year i brought a Lenovo workstation for my job related work. It has two ( 2x ) Xeon E5-2690 V3 , 64GB ram , 4x 250GB samsung 860 evo ssd , 2tb hdd and 2x gtx 1080 (not in sli , my mother board doesn't support sli ). I am using it mainly for my work ( Data Science related ) and sometimes for gaming as well. But the problem is that , most of the time I don't utilize the full power and my pc just sits idel doing nothing except when I am working and even in work I don't use much of the power . So i was searching for a solution or a way to use or share the pc with some other friends like virtually so that they can play games as well as do works. And i also want to separate my work OS from gaming OS. i have tried unraid , vmware , esxi etc but the performance is not like when I am using the pc directly . It lags , slopy and a bit slow. Is there any way to make this or build something that can perform like real pc , response fast and not slopy but in virtual environment over LAN ? I have a gigabit optic fiber internet at home so internet speed is not an issue . Thank you

Hey guys, so I'm looking to upgrade my pc on a budget. I have an i3 3220 right now and no gpu. I'm going to buy either a 1050 ti or a rx 570 4gb from the used market. I have a Gigabyte H61m-s motherboard and i would like your suggestions about the cpu upgrade. I have a choice between an i5 3470, i5 3550, and xeon E3-1240. My main usage will be gaming at 1600x900 and maybe streaming sometimes. All 3 processors are costing about the same. I need to know if they are all compatible and which one will be best for me. Thank you.

I recently inherited a Dell T1700 computer. It has a Xeon E3-1270 v3 CPU with 4 cores and 8 threads. It also has 16GB of RAM, 3TB HDD and 250GB SSD. Once I upgrade the power supply to something like a EVGA B700, I was considering buying either a RX580, RX590 or RX Vega 56. If I decide to use a RX Vega 56, will I have a bottleneck with the Xeon E3-1270 v3 CPU?

Hello, should I buy older whole server with two Intel Xeon E5-2630 v4, 128GB DDR4 RAM or new only CPU, RAM, MB AMD RYZEN 9 3900X with 64 GB DDR4 RAM. PSU and case I already have. Priced roughly the same. It will run vmware ESXi with virtualized minecraft servers, web and DB server, teamspeak server and OMV NAS. Thank you

I'm in the midst of building a new server for my house and I've hit a snag with my Z9PE-D16-10G/DUAL, where the onboard stand-by power LED is on, but when I press the power button, nothing turns on, no fans, no LEDs, no beeps, nothing. This seems like such a small problem but I have tried resetting the board using the CLRTC1 Jumper, taken the CMOS battery out for 10+ minutes, and verified that every jumper is in it's default position. I've assembled it with one 2603 v1, 32GB (4x8GB) of Samsung M393B1K7BH1-CF8Q4, not on the supported memory list, but nothing that really sticks out to me as to why it shouldn't at least POST. No boot drive at this point, tried with multiple GPUs and iGPU. One potential issue is that I used a power cable from my RM750X, when I'm using an RM1000, but I verified on Corsair's site that both PSUs use a type 4 EPS connector on the PSU side.

Hi guys, as my project for the corona break I wanted to do a bit of server stuff (only minecraft to waste some time) with an old workstation I had laying around. Sadly it only recognizes 1 or 2 of 8 ram sticks and all the fans are stuck at 100% all the time. Also the CPU is getting really hot while idleing in the bios, so hot that the cooler is uncomfortable to touch while all fans are spinning at 4000-5000rpm. RAM-weirdness: Only the very first slot is constantly recognized, the second only when having multiple others unrecognized. When using the third channel the system sometimes doesn't recognize ram at all and thus won't boot or it will only recognize the first stick. Last time I used it, about 6 months ago, it worked perfectly fine. Fan-weirdness: This is the one that always existed. No matter what I do the fans won't stop spinning at 4000-5000rpm. I've tried the latest bios, I've tried older ones, I've tried doyens of thing but I can't stop the fans from starting at the airport and flying around the world.

I recently bought a VR Headset (Oculus Rift) and i plugged it in to my computer downloaded the drivers and started gaming after about 10 mins i got a blue-screen (IRQL not less or equal) so i rebooted thinking that was a one off, but then after about 5 mins of the next VR session i got it again (at this point im playing on a NVIDIA Quadro k2200 4GB) i waited about 2 months until i played it again because i ordered a new gpu (AMD Radeon RX 570 4GB) i played thinking i had solved my issue but no after 10 mins again i blue screened with the same error I am running an Intel Xeon E5 1620 0 an AMD Radeon RX 570 and 16GB of ddr3 (ECC) with an 800W PSU and Windows 10 Pro (1909) PS my boot drive is 2 raid 0 500gb sata ssds Please help me -Isaac

i have the xeon x3450 but i have a Motherboard tath suports only 8gb so i need a cheap motherboard tath suports more ram and pcie

Hi guys , My configuration is Xeon e3 1246v3 DH87RL motherboard. Nd rx 480 sapphire nitro+ I don't know why my system isn't detecting the GPU , I bought a used gpu from my friend but checked it while in my friend's PC , but it not working in mine What could be the issue??

Hey, I was thinking to upgrade my xeon e3 1246v3 to ryzen 2600x but I saw that the single core benchmark for Xeon(although marginally) is better nd as far as I know most of the well optimized AAA Titles won't spread over more than 4 cores so is this upgrade really worth doing??

Hey, I have been having second thoughts on my latest purchase and information is scarce so that's why im here, I currently have a i7 930 stock with a intel dx58so motherboard, yes I know not the best at all but I have purchased a x5675 xeon (on its way home) and going to be putting it in, the problem is that I don't know if A the motherboard doesn't support it or B I just need a BIOS update ive been looking around for about a week but no definite answer(like the intel website for the motherboard doesn't show x56 but people have done it because its lga1366). My rig works fine everything I have added was compatible, its just that a 3ghz boost clock and 4 cores doesn't do that well for gaming or upcoming architectural designs (college next year).Any feed back would be amazing or else I will come back with results(hopefully good ones).PS open to new mobo if 100% required. PC specs (the important) DX58so mobo 16gb ram 1066mhz rx 580 8gb 600w Thermaltake psu

I recently picked up an R720 with e5-2695 V2s but because it's mostly used for game servers (which are usually only use a few cores) I was going to buy some 2667 V2s and sell the 2695 v2s for a similar price that I bought the 2667s for, I chose those CPUs because I checked passmark's multi CPU database and noticed that the 2667 V2s got similar (a little better) multi threaded and significantly better single threaded scores. (here is a comparison) I checked around for cinebench scores and found that the 2695s should get ~2600-2800cb stock and the 2667s should get ~2500-2600cb. But I tested my 2695 V2s before switching them out and got ~2600cb so on the lower end but seemed fine. Then when I swapped in the 2667 V2s I ran cinebench and only got ~2300-2350 which was lower than I expected so I ran passmark and got ~18000 which is almost where it should be but sinle threaded performance was awful, like 1300 points instead of the ~2000 points it should be... I know it's set to performance per watt profile in the BIOS And before you ask, I didn't run passmark on the 2695s. If I can't resolve this I will probably just go back to those and run more benchmarks... Any ideas? Edit: Windows High Performance mode helped a little but not much, did nothing to cinebench but passmark is now ~19k with ~1450 single core...

Does anyone know of a lga 2011 or 2011-3 cpu with 12 cores &+ 2.5 ghz &+ that supports quad socket

I'm condensing my current servers from 7 to 4. I have a lot of older inefficient units. I've got a 2x2011 and a 2x1366. Planning to do a 2nd 2x1366 and a single lga1150. Most psus that have 2 eps plugs are 750+ watts or $100+ I don't need that much power for 2 of the machines because they are simply compute units with only USB operating systems with single sata storage. I use rosewill hive and EVGA supernova units now I'd like to just get simple 500w units EVGA has b stock for $45 Has anyone used a pci-e to eps adapter or can recommend one? Decent cheeper psu brand?

I recently purchased an X9DRE-LN4F off of ebay, it worked perfectly, but I planned to put two 2667 v2 processors into it, and so I needed to update my BIOS. I updated the IPMI (required to be v2.0 or higher), and updated to the latest version of AMI BIOS for this board (X9DR78.713), I jumped pins 2-3 on JPME1 and JPME2, as directed. When I rebooted, all of the monitors I had on hand stated that the video signal from my iGPU (via VGA) was out of range, which is strange, since I have a 60Hz 1080p monitor (BenQ RL2455HM), which VGA cannot possibly saturate. The monitor flashes on and off, between showing a black screen with the "Out of Range!" warning and all pixels/backlight being off. I attempted to recover the BIOS as directed by the BIOS readme, but to no avail. The board did the regular beep codes (as it did prior to the BIOS flash), and changing my E5 2603 v1 out for the 2667 v2 didn't seem to change anything, so I'm not sure what else to do. Readme for AMI BIOS 3.0ME.txt

My xeon e3-1246v3 has baseclock of 3.5ghz according Intel's website but whn I plug it in my dh87rl motherboard it says xeon e3-1246v3 @ 3.5ghz 3.0ghz I'm not sure what the issue is plz help me out