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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?_fro...dkw=+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.
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/CM806600203...R/264173228479
I put them on a Chinese knock-off CPU, and it too is working just fine.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/X99-Dual-CP...UAAOSwa8JfybbJ
28/56 cruncher with AVX2, for ~$500 (I already had the rest of the parts).
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?
I put these on. It was close, but they fit without touching.
https://www.newegg.com/cooler-master...82E16835103099
I had 8x of these sitting around, so I plugged them in and they are working fine:
https://www.m4l.com/m393a1g40db0-cpb...RoCIjcQAvD_BwE
Anyone have a compatible mobo list for the Xeon V4 ES CPUs?