Any problems with ES Xeon CPU's?

[Liquid Cooled Human]

I found this on ebay: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Intel-Xeon-E5-2680-v4-ES-LGA2011-3-14C-Compatible-with-X99-i7-6850K-6900K-6950X-/152172022335?hash=item236e28ca3f:g:gjsAAOSwFfhXjNQH and so I wanted to ask what's up with engineering samples of CPU's? Are they usually safe? This one seems to be step down from the retail one as it is clocked at 2.3 rather than 2.4. Thanks.

[zMeul]

they are usually not safe as they require special BIOS builds to work with - as far as I recall

if it was paired with a mobo, that would've been better

[Liquid Cooled Human]

Just now, zMeul said:

they are usually not safe as they require special BIOS builds to work with - as far as I recall

if it was paired with a mobo, that would've been better

I'm thinking of getting the ASRock x99 extreme4 and on the ebay page it says this CPU's revision is compatible

[Electronics Wizardy]

3 minutes ago, Liquid Cooled Human said:

I'm thinking of getting the ASRock x99 extreme4 and on the ebay page it says this CPU's revision is compatible

The normal version, not the ES version. These are also stolen.

[Liquid Cooled Human]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

The normal version, not the ES version. These are also stolen.

How would I know if this revision works with that board. I've seen that quite a lot of people have ES xeon CPU's.

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, Liquid Cooled Human said:

How would I know if this revision works with that board. I've seen that quite a lot of people have ES xeon CPU's.

Id just get a 6800k It will be faster in games and work. 

[SLAYR]

26 minutes ago, Liquid Cooled Human said:

I found this on ebay: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Intel-Xeon-E5-2680-v4-ES-LGA2011-3-14C-Compatible-with-X99-i7-6850K-6900K-6950X-/152172022335?hash=item236e28ca3f:g:gjsAAOSwFfhXjNQH and so I wanted to ask what's up with engineering samples of CPU's? Are they usually safe? This one seems to be step down from the retail one as it is clocked at 2.3 rather than 2.4. Thanks.

Thst one seems like a scam if it is clocked differently.

 

And if you take the time to read the description it says that the chip has a high failure rate, and only works only on specific boards which it lists.

 

It really isn't worth the risk just get a new 5820k about for the same price.

[Liquid Cooled Human]

9 minutes ago, SLAYR said:

Thst one seems like a scam if it is clocked differently.

 

And if you take the time to read the description it says that the chip has a high failure rate, and only works only on specific boards which it lists.

 

It really isn't worth the risk just get a new 5820k about for the same price.

i'll go for the 5820k then. Thanks.