Motherboard for an E5-2670?

[Kristian H]

Hi,

I'm looking for the cheapest motherboard that can support a Xeon E5-2670. As cheap as possible! I plan on using this to host a minecraft server and maybe a few other less intensive things. So basically I don't care about anything such as sound .

 Any suggestions? The preferred form factor is anything that's small but if you know a regular sized mobo that is very cheap (under $100) then please mention this as well.

 

Thanks

[Master Disaster]

Never mind. CPU is 2011-1 not 2011-3 so I was wrong and gave bad information.

[tt2468]

3 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

Hate to be the bearer of bad news but cheap board and 2011-3 are not two things that go together.

 

Any 2011-3 board will support the CPU but 2011 boards are not cheap compared to the consumer platform equivalent.

This is an lga 2011 v1 cpu. If he used an lga 2011-3 board, it would not work.

[manikyath]

i just wanna say, that is a terrible chip to run a minecraft server off of, like, terrible in the amount of "you'd be better buying a kaby lake pentium and cheapo mobo, and probably end up cheaper"

[Kristian H]

2 minutes ago, manikyath said:

i just wanna say, that is a terrible chip to run a minecraft server off of, like, terrible in the amount of "you'd be better buying a kaby lake pentium and cheapo mobo, and probably end up cheaper"

Why is it terrible?

[tt2468]

3 minutes ago, manikyath said:

i just wanna say, that is a terrible chip to run a minecraft server off of, like, terrible in the amount of "you'd be better buying a kaby lake pentium and cheapo mobo, and probably end up cheaper"

Because of the higher clock speed, correct?

[Kristian H]

The plan is to run the server on about 6 cores

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, Kristian H said:

Why is it terrible?

many cores, at less than ideal single threaded performance. minecraft servers are essentially 90% single threaded at best. i'm sure *someone* is gonna come in and claim differently, but they've yet to prove me that their methods are doing any good at all.

 

essentially, this is the state of things:

http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Xeon-E5-2670-vs-Intel-Pentium-G4560/m18501vs3892

the xeon only starts coming out on top when you *REALLY* start using 4 threads

[manikyath]

3 minutes ago, Kristian H said:

The plan is to run the server on about 6 cores

which does jack shit, because all the code is in one thread, mate.

[Master Disaster]

1 hour ago, tt2468 said:

This is an lga 2011 v1 cpu. If he used an lga 2011-3 board, it would not work.

Hmm, well PCPP said they were compatible but I admit I'm no expert on 2011 stuff so if I was wrong then my bad.

[AshleyAshes]

2 hours ago, Kristian H said:

very cheap (under $100)

This is basically not going to happen for a desktop board.  There's tonnes of server retired CPUs hitting the market but they were pulled from servers, not desktops, and there wern't nearly as many desktop boards to start with and older motherboards are usually desirable as mobos are often the component that fails first in a PC.  Lemme put it this way, I have an X79 LGA 2011 motherboard, compared to the price I paid new and what it seems to go for on eBay, it's actually slightly appreciated in value.  ...Do you get how insane it is that a motherboard, 3+ years in, is worth MORE now than when it was NEW?  PC parts are NOT supposed to APPRECIATE in value.

[leadeater]

I'll happily swap you my E5-2620 for your E-2670 .

 

Finding a cheap motherboard for that CPU is likely going to be hard and not cheap. Servers of that era aren't quite old enough yet to have saturated the used market and getting just a motherboard and not a whole used server will be hard. You can just use a decent desktop motherboard instead and that will work fine, minus ECC support, but again cost may be a problem.