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<p>Wow, if it wasn't for the not-as-cheap motherboards and the lack
of recent features meant to boost performance (like NUMA and
APIC-V, though I can't say how effective those are in the real
world), I'd probably go for it as well. 300+ USD for a new mobo -
especially when my current setup doesn't have any noteworthy
technical issues - starts making it a bit hard to justify, though.
Tempting indeed.<br>
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Tobias has no reason not to go for that setup either, since he
could just reuse his 16GBs of DDR3.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2016-05-12 11:21, Alex Williamson
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Ryan
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<div dir="ltr">I know Alex has recommended the E5 series
processors/motherboards for the best compatibility.
There are 2 versions of motherboards that support that
right now. Socket R and Socket R3. Obviously E5 series
processors are not very affordable brand new; however,
the market is currently flooded with server pulled
E5-2670 CPUs. They can be easily found for $60 on ebay.
These CPUs work on Socket R motherboards. Additionally,
these motherboards will still support DDR3 memory which
is cheaper to acquire than DDR4 as well.
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<div>That's where I'd start if I was you. Obviously
there could always be issues with 1 manufacturer to
another, but hopefully that's a starting place.</div>
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<div>Nice tip! You're referring to Sandy-Bridge EP, right?</div>
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href="http://ark.intel.com/products/64595/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2670-20M-Cache-2_60-GHz-8_00-GTs-Intel-QPI">http://ark.intel.com/products/64595/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2670-20M-Cache-2_60-GHz-8_00-GTs-Intel-QPI</a></div>
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<div>8-core, hmmm that's tempting.</div>
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