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I have two spare xeon cpus laying around

Colin Donoghue
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So I have two spare intel Xeon w5035 chip and I am wondering if it would be worth it to buy a dual socket (1366) motherboard to make a a gaming/server computer. This is mostly an excuse so I can fool around with server type hardware and make something cool.

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Server hardware is a pain in the ass to manage but I guess if you can find a board for cheap why not give it a try? I mean, 1366 is quite old by this point but you should still get some decent multithreaded performance out of it...

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Wrong Forum. And as an owner of a 1366 system it will be a bit expensive. Around $50-70 for a good Mobo, 20-30 for 16GB of ECC DDR3, another $50 for good coolers, $50-60 for dual EPS PSU. It's only worth it if you are going to use it as a server. As a gaming PC it will be quite a bit behind the times.

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1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

well thats not the correct model number, those doesn't exist.

 

The w series chips didn't support dual socket if i rember right.

 

No really worth it.

You're right w3503

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2 minutes ago, Colin Donoghue said:

You're right w3503

No offense, but those are worthless. 2.4GHz dual cores without hyperthreading and they only support a single socket.

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1 minute ago, Colin Donoghue said:

You're right w3503

That is a non hyperthreaded dual core, not very fast

 

You can't use this chip in a dual socket board.

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Just now, Hunter259 said:

No offensive but those are worthless. 2.4GHz dual cores without hyperthreading and they only support a single socket.

 I tore them out of some trashed computers so I wasnt expecting much 

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Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

That is a non hyperthreaded dual core, not very fast

 

You can't use this chip in a dual socket board.

Thanks for your help

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Why do you have to Xeons laying around?

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