LGA2066 Motherboard Options

[karlmalone]

Budget (including currency): $500 for motherboard and cooler

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: General

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc):

 

Hi! I recently performed a CPU and RAM upgrade on an Intel-based iMac Pro and kept the old CPU and RAM for my troubles. The CPU is an LGA 2066 Xeon (8 cores) and the RAM is 32GB of DDR4 ECC "RDIMMS". I want to throw together a build for messing around with at home, but it seems like I need a server-class motherboard to make use of the RAM. I found some some options on Newegg, but they're very expensive or non-standard (the ASROCK ITX "rack"). I'd really like something no bigger than mATX. I read that "some" motherboards will work with the RAM (even if not advertised) but most won't. I'm OK buying used or sourcing from eBay/whatever. What are my options?

 

Thanks!

 

[jaslion]

If this is for playing around id just get a used workstation fot ebay for less than 500$.

 

The mac xeons go for decent money because mac. Same for the ram because its mac compatible/original. Sell it and get a better fitted system for your tinkering needs. Gonna be cheaper too

[porina]

It's probably more pain than it is worth to build a system around that. You do need a server chipset board and can't use the consumer tier ones for the CPU, never mind the ram. I'd guess at 8 cores the CPU would be comparable to the 7820X (or later equivalents) which by today's standards isn't special.

 

Sell it and get something more consumer friendly?

[Jurrunio]

17 minutes ago, karlmalone said:

non-standard

why makes the C422 WSI/IPMI non-standard to you? You can't use X299 because you have a Xeon, must use C422 or other LGA 2066 based C chipset. This means all of them would look like a server board because they frankly all are.

[karlmalone]

5 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

why makes the C422 WSI/IPMI non-standard to you? You can't use X299 because you have a Xeon, must use C422 or other LGA 2066 based C chipset. This means all of them would look like a server board because they frankly all are.

Non-standard was probably a poor choice of words, but it lacks M.2 and enough USB ports to be useful outside of a real "server" use.

[karlmalone]

Selling IS an option, but it seems like I'd only get about $100 for the RAM and maybe $200 for the CPU. Maybe I could put that towards a raspberry pi setup or something lol