can a E7-8890 v4 run on a x99 chipset motherboard?

BT5NY6 · July 11, 2022

hello i was looking into old xeons when i started to se if there was any actual best cpu for the lga2011-3 bec i keep seing that aparently there are some wich are "the best" like the Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 and then when i search i acidentally spot some wich have more cores than that one and have better benchmarks even tough they are still lga2011-3 cpus they dont appear to be the best and searching a littlebit more i find out the """actual best lga 2011-3 cpu"" is the e5 2699a due to the chipset limitations being the x79 i have seen a lt of motherboards that claim to have that chipset in aliexpress but when i started to search even more and by searching i just went and see the whole product lines in the intel ark web i see the most powerfull cpu for the lga 2011 is actually the E7-8890 v4 being the most powerfull and then i noticed that they had the 3 at the end as difrference as the old ones had that and the new ones dont so aparently I AM CONFUSED AS HELL HOW so that means the 2011-3 had worse cpus and the 2011 had better? is there any substancial difference or is it like the 775 and the 771 differences please help
also i had the idea to start with a cheap old xeon from aliexpress in a x99 chipset motherboard with some ram and the glorius rtx2060 ti and as time goes on change the cpu to a better one as the market just straight up fills with those things and i get the money to upgrade the cpu like buying the E7-8890 v4 in 3 to 6 years when is as cheap as the one im gonna start with i am just thinking of doing this and not making my life about doing this,thx
update:i know the 2011 and the 2011-3 are incompatible but why does the E7-8890 v4 run on an suposed older socket and the older of xeon run on a suposed newer lga2011-3

Edited July 11, 2022 by BT5NY6
a lil update

jaslion · July 14, 2022

So before you do anything what are you going to be doing on this system? If its gaming all these xeons will just flat out suck and basically anything past12-14 threads will never be used.

Even for rendering pruposes these xeons are beaten by consumer cpus that cost around the same price or in case of the e7 8890 less.

Now for your question. Lga 2011 is v3 and v4 only. Lga 2011-3 is an entirely different socket and cpus are NOT compatible.

The e7 8890 is socket 2011 but needs a VERY SPECIFIC chipset to work. It is NOT x99 compatible at all and will not be ever. It may be labbeled as v4 but in reality its an older architecture. That and since the chipset has to be a very specific chipset you could say that its on its own version of lga 2011

Needfuldoer · July 14, 2022

LGA 2011 was for Sandy Bridge (no suffix, "v0") and Ivy Bridge (v2) Xeons and DDR3 RAM.

LGA2011-3 was for Haswell (v3) and Broadwell (v4) Xeons and DDR4 RAM.

The CPUs are not cross-compatible.

If this is going to be a desktop PC, you'll want a processor with fewer cores but faster clock speeds. Look into Haswell-era workstations like the HP z440 and Dell Precision 5810 or something based on a Supermicro X10 generation motherboard. You can usually find them for a decent price, and you won't be dealing with no-name mystery meat parts.