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CPU and motherboard compatibility

So im thinking about buying a server.

The CPU's im looking at are the Xeon E5 2660 8 cores, 16 threads at 2.2-3 GHz. The reason why im looking at these is becasue I think I can get them pretty cheap (200 ea second hand)

The motherboard im looking at is the Supermicro X10DRL-i dual socket board.

The other parts of the system I havn't looked at but am sure they are trivial

Memory: ECC 16GB per CPU at the rated speeds for the motherboard.

PSU: Probably about 450 W should be heaps enough (100W per CPU I believe)

Storage: 1TB Disk drive, 250 GB SSD

 

The main concern here is the CPU and motherboard compatibility between CPUs and motherboard, I cant find the motherboard on pc part picker, from what i've read the motherboard is LGA 2011 so it should be fine with the CPUs but I wanted to check with you guys. So what do you think? good plan? not compatible?

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2 minutes ago, Toxicable said:

I cant find the motherboard on pc part picker,

would be a better idea to check the motherboard's website for the compatibility list for something that is not common (dual socket motherboard), pcpartpicker can be inaccurate at times

-sigh- feeling like I'm being too negative lately

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3 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

would be a better idea to check the motherboard's website for the compatibility list for something that is not common (dual socket motherboard), pcpartpicker can be inaccurate at times

Oh bugger, after looking at the website it looks like it only supports E5 2600 family v3/4 the CPU im looking at is v1 I think

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