old e5440 xeon processors.

[cleb]

So I'm in a high school electronics class and on the occasion we get to take apart things as part of a free day and I took apart a server and got some memory and two intel e5440's (2.83ghz, 12m, 1333, whatever the last number means to anyone) My question is is there any use for these processors for me? I understand they are old but they were also for servers so they had to have some power, I want to say they are quad core models as well. I'm not really asking if I could build some kick ass workstation to do modern day multi core number crunching madness type things, i'm just curious as to what I could do with them. If I did build a workstation with them would that work station hold any merit or would it be a glorified web browser and I'd be better off making a home server or finding the cheapest way to build with them and play with linux distros, or just selling them to someone who could find use for them? 

[Sam Z Man]

If you get a socket 775 board you can modify them to fit and overclock them to balls.

[TheRandomness]

If you got a LGA775 socket board you could modify and fold@home with them

[cleb]

But would that make them useful for anything? I saw a few people managing to even get some half decent basic gaming out of them. 

[Sam Z Man]

But would that make them useful for anything? I saw a few people managing to even get some half decent basic gaming out of them. 

 

Yea you could put a gtx 950 on them and have it not bottleneck in most games.

[Kevguy]

Wrong place, sorry

[cleb]

nice, I wasn't paticularly looking for like a new gaming pc out of it, I just wanted to know what it was capable of before buying parts for it. 
kevguy- Well I already have these proccesors is the idea. 

[cleb]

no problem

[cleb]

Wrong place, sorry

it's cool

[cleb]

Yea you could put a gtx 950 on them and have it not bottleneck in most games.

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[Sam Z Man]

nice, I wasn't paticularly looking for like a new gaming pc out of it, I just wanted to know what it was capable of before buying parts for it. 

kevguy- Well I already have these proccesors is the idea. 

Yea you can overclock those xeons because back then they made them unlocked, and because xeons are so binned they overclock REALLY well.

 

You can also tell your friends you have a 700$ CPU.

[cleb]

Yea you can overclock those xeons because back then they made them unlocked, and because xeons are so binned they overclock REALLY well.

 

You can also tell your friends you have a 700$ CPU.

would you know at all of anything I should look out for when choosing my motherboard, like what I should look for, other than it's video card capable, like paticular chipset or ram support?

[Sam Z Man]

would you know at all of anything I should look out for when choosing my motherboard, like what I should look for, other than it's video card capable, like paticular chipset or ram support?

Go look up 771 xeon to 775 socket modification.