Building a Workstation!

[BozurK]

Hello there everyone,

My friend is planning to build a Workstation system and he is going with the Intel Xeon E5-2640 v4 but, there is a confusion about the motherboard right now...

Please, suggest us a decent motherboard for that CPU

- Thank you

[shadowbyte]

you really can't go wrong with the X99-ws

 

[BozurK]

Just now, shadowbyte said:

you really can't go wrong with the X99-ws

 

Hey bro,

Alright but my friend would like to go with a dual socket motherboard and he is curious if 1 CPU would boot the system and the second CPU would be optional to Install as of now.

[shadowbyte]

1 minute ago, BozurK said:

Hey bro,

Alright but my friend would like to go with a dual socket motherboard and he is curious if 1 CPU would boot the system and the second CPU would be optional to Install as of now.

I believe it would work fine

some of the ram slots wouldn't be usable though, since those are piped through the 2nd CPU

[Bananasplit_00]

3 minutes ago, BozurK said:

Hey bro,

Alright but my friend would like to go with a dual socket motherboard and he is curious if 1 CPU would boot the system and the second CPU would be optional to Install as of now.

if you can find one and he is willing to pay the price then yes that would almost certainly work but keep in mind you will need one hell of a case for that if you are not going to be using something like a 3U server rack chassis 

[BozurK]

Just now, shadowbyte said:

I believe it would work fine

some of the ram slots wouldn't be usable though, since those are piped through the 2nd CPU

Are you sure that it would boot up and works just fine? because he has to confirm it before getting the motherboard..

[shadowbyte]

1 minute ago, BozurK said:

Are you sure that it would boot up and works just fine? because he has to confirm it before getting the motherboard..

yes, it'll work

[rafazafar]

21 minutes ago, BozurK said:

Hello there everyone,

My friend is planning to build a Workstation system and he is going with the Intel Xeon E5-2640 v4 but, there is a confusion about the motherboard right now...

Please, suggest us a decent motherboard for that CPU

- Thank you

Well.. im using a 2698 v4 on a x99e-itx. works like a charm
But you cant go wrong with any x99 in general. Its more of what you want from the motherboard like pcie lanes, kvm, lan, ect2.
Its hard to recommend any without knowing what you actually need.

[BozurK]

Just now, shadowbyte said:

yes, it'll work

Okay then bro,

Thank you so much for the replies

Cheers.

[BozurK]

Just now, rafazafar said:

Well.. im using a 2698 v4 on a x99e-itx. works like a charm
But you cant go wrong with any x99 in general. Its more of what you want from the motherboard like pcie lanes, kvm, lan, ect2.
Its hard to recommend any without knowing what you actually need.

Okay got'cha

Thanks!