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should work just fine.

 

what is your current rig and what do you wanna do with the Xeon though?

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Hey everyone!

 

I'm looking to upgrade my current system with a Xeon E5-2670, they're dirt cheap on eBay I found some as low as 50 USD, however, the motherboards are usually quite expensive. I live in Sweden and I found a classified with someone selling an ASUS P9X79 Deluxe motherboard for 40 USD, but when I checked the ASUS site it said that it only supports the Xeon E5-26XX v2 processors. My question is should I buy it?, the socket is the same and the chipset is supported by the E5-2670.I have heard that people often install Xeon processors in X-79 boards which do not officially support them.

 

P.S Please feel free to add any eBay links with cheap lga 2011 motherboards

 

Thanks in advance for the help :)

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should work just fine.

 

what is your current rig and what do you wanna do with the Xeon though?

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Currently, I'm running a G3258, with a gtx 970 and 32gb of ram. I don't really have any plans for the Xeon at the moment other than gaming, but it would be nice to have for the future, in case I need more threads.

Thanks for your quick response :)

@FloRolf

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On 4/17/2016 at 2:55 AM, THELOU101 said:

Hey everyone!

 

I'm looking to upgrade my current system with a Xeon E5-2670, they're dirt cheap on eBay I found some as low as 50 USD, however, the motherboards are usually quite expensive. I live in Sweden and I found a classified with someone selling an ASUS P9X79 Deluxe motherboard for 40 USD, but when I checked the ASUS site it said that it only supports the Xeon E5-26XX v2 processors. My question is should I buy it?, the socket is the same and the chipset is supported by the E5-2670.I have heard that people often install Xeon processors in X-79 boards which do not officially support them.

 

P.S Please feel free to add any eBay links with cheap lga 2011 motherboards

 

Thanks in advance for the help :)

my neighbor has one running right now on a p9x79 deluxe.

Xeon e5-2670, Intel DX79sr, 16gb g.skill Ares, evga sc 780ti, antec 750 80 plus gold, Phantek Entho pro case

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