What's a good cheap motherboard for the Xeon X5650

[BabyShrub]

I'm looking for a good cheap motherboard for an Intel Xeon X5650, it needs to support 16gb ddr3 ram, and a 1060 6gb, also heatsink suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

[r.linder]

If you can't find a compatible motherboard on the used market, it's not worth buying. Even the weakest of the Ryzen 3 CPUs from Zen architecture can outperform that Xeon, and that Xeon is so old that the IPC is just too low for modern GPUs. I would expect bottlenecking in CPU heavy titles despite being a 6c12t.

You're better off buying a Ryzen 5 2600 or 3600 and a B450 motherboard with 3000 MHz+ DDR4 RAM, anything less than Coffee Lake Intel or Zen+ AMD isn't worth buying unless it's just one thing you're missing from Skylake or Kaby Lake.

[Hennix]

xeon dont mean highend
this one is crap

[BabyShrub]

If I was to get an Xeon x5650 which motherboard would support a 1060 6gb ? I understand what you are saying but I'm looking for a cheap Intel build .

Originally posted by 【Ｅｓｃｏｒｖｅ】:

If you can't find a compatible motherboard on the used market, it's not worth buying. Even the weakest of the Ryzen 3 CPUs from Zen architecture can outperform that Xeon, and that Xeon is so old that the IPC is just too low for modern GPUs. I would expect bottlenecking in CPU heavy titles despite being a 6c12t.

You're better off buying a Ryzen 5 2600 or 3600 and a B450 motherboard with 3000 MHz+ DDR4 RAM, anything less than Coffee Lake Intel or Zen+ AMD isn't worth buying unless it's just one thing you're missing from Skylake or Kaby Lake.

[BabyShrub]

Originally posted by Hennix:

xeon dont mean highend
this one is crap

Explain your point.

[Hennix]

its explained in your other thread
its no need to make another thread if you dont like the answer

[r.linder]

Originally posted by 200dpi (0.1) 1280x800:

If I was to get an Xeon x5650 which motherboard would support a 1060 6gb ? I understand what you are saying but I'm looking for a cheap Intel build .

Originally posted by 【Ｅｓｃｏｒｖｅ】:

If you can't find a compatible motherboard on the used market, it's not worth buying. Even the weakest of the Ryzen 3 CPUs from Zen architecture can outperform that Xeon, and that Xeon is so old that the IPC is just too low for modern GPUs. I would expect bottlenecking in CPU heavy titles despite being a 6c12t.

You're better off buying a Ryzen 5 2600 or 3600 and a B450 motherboard with 3000 MHz+ DDR4 RAM, anything less than Coffee Lake Intel or Zen+ AMD isn't worth buying unless it's just one thing you're missing from Skylake or Kaby Lake.

Any motherboard with PCI-e can run a PCI-e GPU. But you're not likely to find a supporting board because they're rare.

Originally posted by 200dpi (0.1) 1280x800:

Originally posted by Hennix:

xeon dont mean highend
this one is crap

Explain your point.

His point was already made clear; the X5650 is crap. It's a server CPU outclassed by modern desktop CPUs. The X5650 is likely to bottleneck the 1060 in some cases as well.

[BabyShrub]

It's no need? English please .

Originally posted by Hennix:

its explained in your other thread
its no need to make another thread if you dont like the answer

[r.linder]

Originally posted by 200dpi (0.1) 1280x800:

It's no need? English please .

Originally posted by Hennix:

its explained in your other thread
its no need to make another thread if you dont like the answer

There's no need to make another thread because you didn't like the answer you got in the first one. Happy?

[BabyShrub]

It's not because I didn't like the answer, I made that thread straight after posting this one, so please get your facts straight bud, and second thanks for the help but all I wanted to know is which motherboard would work with them system specs, I don't care if you think it is a bag of BS, because it will be able to play all the games im wanting to play.

Originally posted by 【Ｅｓｃｏｒｖｅ】:

Originally posted by 200dpi (0.1) 1280x800:

It's no need? English please .

There's no need to make another thread because you didn't like the answer you got in the first one. Happy?

[_I_]

orig thread here
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/11/1644295067083748428/

[BabyShrub]

Thank you.

Originally posted by _I_:

orig thread here
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/11/1644295067083748428/

[Aliquis Freedom & Ethnopluralism]

Originally posted by 200dpi (0.1) 1280x800:

If I was to get an Xeon x5650 which motherboard would support a 1060 6gb ? I understand what you are saying but I'm looking for a cheap Intel build .

Originally posted by 【Ｅｓｃｏｒｖｅ】:

If you can't find a compatible motherboard on the used market, it's not worth buying. Even the weakest of the Ryzen 3 CPUs from Zen architecture can outperform that Xeon, and that Xeon is so old that the IPC is just too low for modern GPUs. I would expect bottlenecking in CPU heavy titles despite being a 6c12t.

You're better off buying a Ryzen 5 2600 or 3600 and a B450 motherboard with 3000 MHz+ DDR4 RAM, anything less than Coffee Lake Intel or Zen+ AMD isn't worth buying unless it's just one thing you're missing from Skylake or Kaby Lake.

It won't be all that cheap at-least before since the motherboard held a pretty decent price.

I don't know if you need RAM but if you do you'd also buy RAM for a dead system.

Also it will unlikely get full security mitigations and be forever insecure.

And the old motherboards may lack USB 3.0, have no M.2 slots, use PCI-express 2.0, plus cheap motherboards typically use the 5K hours electrolyte capacitors and eventually they may/will fail, whatever it happen to you while you use it is a completely different story but new is new and with warranty.

They was an interesting option 2.5-3 years ago before first gen Ryzen but even with first gen one could question whatever they was worth buying. Nowadays you can get used Ryzen gear too.
Can likely get a used B450 motherboard for a similar price and then you'll have latest SATA, PCI-Express for graphics, just about latest USB and at-least one M.2 slot, DDR4, newer fresher board and continued support and security fixes (and upgrade path and future processors.)
The Ryzen processor cost more but I imagine it perform better too.

[r.linder]

Originally posted by 200dpi (0.1) 1280x800:

It's not because I didn't like the answer, I made that thread straight after posting this one, so please get your facts straight bud, and second thanks for the help but all I wanted to know is which motherboard would work with them system specs, I don't care if you think it is a bag of BS, because it will be able to play all the games im wanting to play.

Originally posted by 【Ｅｓｃｏｒｖｅ】:

There's no need to make another thread because you didn't like the answer you got in the first one. Happy?

That bag of BS will be obsolete far sooner than you think. You'd end up having to upgrade to a whole new platform anyway, so you may as well do it now, and properly the first time. That Xeon is a waste of money.

[BabyShrub]

I only want to play pac man and chess, will it always be able to play them games ?

Originally posted by 【Ｅｓｃｏｒｖｅ】:

Originally posted by 200dpi (0.1) 1280x800:

It's not because I didn't like the answer, I made that thread straight after posting this one, so please get your facts straight bud, and second thanks for the help but all I wanted to know is which motherboard would work with them system specs, I don't care if you think it is a bag of BS, because it will be able to play all the games im wanting to play.

That bag of BS will be obsolete far sooner than you think. You'd end up having to upgrade to a whole new platform anyway, so you may as well do it now, and properly the first time. That Xeon is a waste of money.

[Talby]

Nothing wrong with getting a used X58 like this Asus P6T for $100

https://www.ebay.com/itm/ASUS-P6T-Intel-LGA1366-Desktop-Motherboard-w-I-O-Shield-/254299779394