Recommended LGA2011 Board?

[SaltShakerOW]

Looking to use the Intel Xeon E5-2650 for a new server im building because its cheap and its powerful. Only issue is, I cant find anything for that socket thats not $500+. Can anyone recommend me a reasonably priced LGA2011 board? Even if it means using used hardware, i'm okay with that.

[Streetguru]

7 minutes ago, SaltShakerOW said:

Looking to use the Intel Xeon E5-2650 for a new server im building because its cheap and its powerful. Only issue is, I cant find anything for that socket thats not $500+. Can anyone recommend me a reasonably priced LGA2011 board? Even if it means using used hardware, i'm okay with that.

Sell it and get an R7 1700 which is a faster CPU anyways and has new motherboards readily available? Or a 1920X 12 core is $199 right now, motherboards are just a bit pricey still.

It even has unbuffered ECC support.

 

[TheGlenlivet]

https://www.newegg.com/p/1JW-000C-003B8?Description=refirbished LGA-2011 motherboard&cm_re=refirbished_LGA-2011_motherboard-_-9SIA4RE8W93296-_-Product

Something like this would work.  Ships from China, but gives you an idea.

 

That said, a Ryzen is a better, newer system unless you need a ton of PCI lanes.

[TheSLSAMG]

12 minutes ago, TheGlenlivet said:

https://www.newegg.com/p/1JW-000C-003B8?Description=refirbished LGA-2011 motherboard&cm_re=refirbished_LGA-2011_motherboard-_-9SIA4RE8W93296-_-Product

Something like this would work.  Ships from China, but gives you an idea.

 

That said, a Ryzen is a better, newer system unless you need a ton of PCI lanes.

That's LGA 2011-3, which is for Broadwell-E, Skylake-E and Kaby Lake HEDT CPUs. OP has a Sandy Bridge-EP chip, which along with Sandy Bridge-E and Ivy Bridge-E is meant for LGA 2011.

[TheGlenlivet]

6 minutes ago, TheSLSAMG said:

That's LGA 2011-3, which is for Broadwell-E, Skylake-E and Kaby Lake HEDT CPUs. OP has a Sandy Bridge-EP chip, which along with Sandy Bridge-E and Ivy Bridge-E is meant for LGA 2011.

https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/X99-A-II/HelpDesk_CPU/

What E5-2650 does he have?  v1 or 2?  The v3 and 4 are on the list.

[TheSLSAMG]

Just now, TheGlenlivet said:

https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/X99-A-II/HelpDesk_CPU/

What E5-2650 does he have?  v1 or 2?  The v3 and 4 are on the list.

Fair point, I had forgotten that newer revisions existed than the original E5-2650. That being said, I'm assuming it's the original revision since OP did not mention v2, v3 or v4. Even then, much cheaper X99 boards of reasonably good quality exist on the used market such as this $145 X99A SLI Plus. He could also explore some Chinese knockoff options such as this (though I can't say that it's a decent board.)

 

@SaltShakerOW What revision of the chip do you have? 

[TheGlenlivet]

3 minutes ago, TheSLSAMG said:

Fair point, I had forgotten that newer revisions existed than the original E5-2650. That being said, I'm assuming it's the original revision since OP did not mention v2, v3 or v4. Even then, much cheaper X99 boards of reasonably good quality exist on the used market such as this $145 X99A SLI Plus. He could also explore some Chinese knockoff options such as this (though I can't say that it's a decent board.)

 

@SaltShakerOW What revision of the chip do you have? 

How about an ATX server board if he has the 2011 not 2011-3?

https://www.newegg.com/p/1JW-000M-00MA4?Description=refirbished LGA-2011 motherboard&cm_re=refirbished_LGA-2011_motherboard-_-9SIAH9B93Y0781-_-Product

$99...?

[Jurrunio]

56 minutes ago, SaltShakerOW said:

I cant find anything for that socket thats not $500+.

so it's not cheap. That's why you shouldnt buy it.

[Nick7]

If you want to go with LGA2011 (since not specified CPU version, I'll assume X79 is fine), you can then get cheap i7 3930k with motherboard setup. While at 6 cores, it can also OC easily to 4+GHz, and beats E5-2650 all over.

.. or just get similar mobo.

Unless it's X99, it's more expensive...

 

For example: E-Bay link