Here We Go Again: 40-Thread Xeon PC for less than a Broadwell-E Core i7

Is there any way to put 4 of those processors in a single system ?

What would be limitations ? (would you only be able to use windows server editions like Windows Server 2016 )

What kind of mobo's would support this ? and are there any special power requirements?
 
Would you guys or could someone post what the benchmarks look like against the new i7 7700? As I am getting ready to do a new build (probably docker and vm heavy) but I want some clock speed as well and since the new kaby lake has 4k and h.265 added on die it is very tempting.
 
Great Build!

I'm curious about the Excel numbers/Speed. If you had 4 CPU's do you know if it would be even faster? Say 4 10 core CPU's? Also do you have any other comparable data for excel?
 
Another big wave of Xeon workstations and servers right now on Ebay. That's how I got here. I read both builds tonight. Thanks for the information and ideas. It was difficult to get through the comments on the 32 thread build with all the comments from people that apparently have inferior comprehension skills and/or reasoning skills, but I made it and learned a few things about Xeon processors and got ideas for a build. I also learned that I don't ever want to hear the word Pinnacle again. Ever. And there will never be a shortage of people that will argue or point out the most irrelevant things.
 
Can you play any games on this. I am looking for a new build and this looks really nice. I don't play high end games, just DayZ.
 
I'm trying to build this very system, except that I'm using an EP2C612D16-4L motherboard (the only difference would be the standard 4 x 1G Ethernet connectors instead of the 2 x 1G plus 2 x 10G Ethernet connectors) and I'm being told by ASRock that UDIMMs are not supported by this motherboard: as the manual specifies, only RDIMMs and LRDIMMs are supposedly supported. So, how is it that the build presented here seems to be working fine with UDIMMs? Can anyone shed light on this subject, please?

Thank you.
 
I bought a pair of those Xeon E5-2630 v4 on Ebay and I got a QHVK and a SR2R7. Each one worked perfecto on my board (AsRock EP2C612D16C-4L) but not together - I got an error 79 during "System Initialization". Can't they be combined? I got the perception on this forum that the QHVK are not good ones - is it true?
Thanks in advance!!
 
Have anybody used this rig for heavy work as for eg. a node in render farm? I want to build a render farm fo C4D team render, and looknig for perfect bang for the buck. Anybody knows if it peforms well in renderfarms? The ES CPU, and non-ECC RAMs doesn't cause any problems?
 
Someone please help me as I am a tech neophyte! I love this article as it hits to the core (get it?) of my philosophy. Which states, legacy technology has inherent value that refutes Moore's law. Let me give some examples, I use a Gen 1 iPad for my drone and AMP.

I am a residential Draftsman/Architect. I use a lot of CAD and 3d Modeling software for rendering and VR. I will put my money into GPU's, Memory, displays, and storage. I use a legacy dual xeon workstation. I believe the article above could be updated. Does anyone have an opinion? I am ready to build a dual CPU machine, but wonder if this philosophy of mine can still apply. I love Xeon because of the ECC memory and stability. Give up some specs that follow this articles premise. Cheap, readily available legacy hardware, that can keep up with or exceed today's top performers.
 
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Someone please help me as I am a tech neophyte! I love this article as it hits to the core (get it?) of my philosophy. Which states, legacy technology has inherent value that refutes Moore's law. Let me give some examples, I use a Gen 1 iPad for my drone and AMP.

I am a residential Draftsman/Architect. I use a lot of CAD and 3d Modeling software for rendering and VR. I will put my money into GPU's, Memory, displays, and storage. I use a legacy dual xeon workstation. I believe the article above could be updated. Does anyone have an opinion? I am ready to build a dual CPU machine, but wonder if this philosophy of mine can still apply. I love Xeon because of the ECC memory and stability. Give up some specs that follow this articles premise. Cheap, readily available legacy hardware, that can keep up with or exceed today's top performers.
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Check out ebay for parts... just doing a VERY brief search, I found some pretty cheap Xeon CPUs...

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/Intel-Xeon-...945286?hash=item4667308b06:g:llEAAOSwVm5Y~WXO

That's a pair of 5690s (6-core, 12MB Cache) for $120.... I'm sure you can find similar with some more research...
 
One x Intel Xeon E5-2679 v4 is 20 core, 40 thread crikie


Would you have to make changes, to have two of those Xeon E5-2679 v4 in the Monster Build ?
 
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I'm surprised the GSkill memory worked for you... I'm doing the exact same build and the motherboard will not post with both CPUs in using GSkill's UDIMM modules. I contacted GSkill, and they stated they do not make RDIMM modules, so what did you do to get it to work?
 
I have dual E5-2670 on a EP2C602-4L/D16 running Windows 10 64bit. It is not stable, it can run for a week or 3 hours then complete freeze, or occasional blue screen. I'm told its a driver issue, that I need to install windows offline and disable automatic updates. I have yet to try this.
 
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