engineering samples / 2S single or dual?

[MindCrime]

im loooking at these e5-2680 v4 engineering samples on ebay for about $150. does anyone have experience with engineering samples? any issues I'll run into?

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m570.l1313&_nkw=E5-2680v4+es&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&_osacat=0&_odkw=+E5-2680v4

2nd question: would there be an advantage in running them as singles on two boards rather than a dual socket board? if thats possible.

[zombie67]

You can get non-ES for about the same.

FWIW, I bought two of the non-ES from these guys, and they have been running great for a couple of months now.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/CM8066002031501-INTEL-XEON-E5-2680V4-14-CORE-2-40GHz-35M-9-6-GT-s-120W-PROCESSOR/264173228479

I put them on a Chinese knock-off CPU, and it too is working just fine.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/X99-Dual-CPU-Motherboards-Socket-LGA-2011-3-Dual-NVMe-M-2-8-DDR4-Up-mainboard/154101112287?hash=item23e1245ddf:g:CEUAAOSwa8Jfybb J

28/56 cruncher with AVX2, for ~$500 (I already had the rest of the parts).

[MindCrime]

what coolers do you run? the sockets are so close together i figure i cant put on something like Coolermaster 212 shape.

since its x99 what ram do you use? non-ecc? either?

[zombie67]

I put these on. It was close, but they fit without touching.

https://www.newegg.com/cooler-master-hyper-212-evo-rr-212e-20pk-r2/p/N82E16835103099?Item=N82E16835103099

I had 8x of these sitting around, so I plugged them in and they are working fine:

https://www.m4l.com/m393a1g40db0-cpb-Samsung-Server-Memory?gclid=CjwKCAiAxp-ABhALEiwAXm6IyTrZSNxob-H0Pere6pwFe3i6lIvWSrLMICGuicwTVJXG3FRgVByRYRoCIjcQ AvD_BwE

[scole of TSBT]

Anyone have a compatible mobo list for the Xeon V4 ES CPUs?