X79 Xeon support

[RabbitPeper]

After sorry experience with chinese X79 mobo, I've decided to hunt down used brand one. But, my CPU is Xeon E5 2650 v2 and I'm not sure which mobos will support it. Also, what is the best place in Europe to buy one? I need to provide check so hopefully it will be some kind of shop

[NelizMastr]

2 minutes ago, CUDAcores89 said:

what mobo was it exactly?

Probably one of those sub $100 Huanan boards with like 2 RAM slots and basically no VRM.

[RabbitPeper]

5 hours ago, NelizMastr said:

Probably one of those sub $100 Huanan boards with like 2 RAM slots and basically no VRM.

It actually pretty fancy one with 4 slots 3 PCI E and NVME, it just refuses to startup properly

[Stefan Payne]

6 hours ago, RabbitPeper said:

After sorry experience with chinese X79 mobo, I've decided to hunt down used brand one. But, my CPU is Xeon E5 2650 v2 and I'm not sure which mobos will support it. Also, what is the best place in Europe to buy one? I need to provide check so hopefully it will be some kind of shop

You have a special CPU. Maybe also get a cheap CPU to use the Board and eventually flash the BIOS?? Like i7-3820, those should be fine for testing purposes.

 

Because yours is a 22nm CPU, wich requires an updated BIOS.

 

BUT they are listed in CPU Support Lists, for example:
https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/X79DELUXE/HelpDesk_CPU/

 

The GIgabyte X79-UD5 I have doesn't seem to support your CPU at all...

The GA-X79S-UP5-WIFI seem to support it...

 

The MSI X79A-GD45 PLUS is unknown...

 

So yeah, you need to look hard with that CPU.