Will xeon CPUs work on normal LGA2011 X79 Motherboards?

[Damian]

Will xeon CPUs work on normal LGA2011 X79 Motherboards?

[[UFO] rad87gn]

Yes, but not good. Spend the money on GPU and RAM for the i5 and i7 range with high speed. That is what gaming systems are good at. XEON's are for business use.

[just.kamk /idle]

Plenty of E3 Xeons with high frequency around - just a matter of pricing, and if Intel locks them out again from consumer chipsets.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Początkowo opublikowane przez rad87gn:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGA_2011

Not all BIOS are the same on each Motherboard, just because it's the same socket, doesn't mean the Mobo supports it. That why it's important to know what the brand and model, as they're the ones who made the Mobo, and the BIOS.

Początkowo opublikowane przez rad87gn:

I know what the issue is. Who uses a XEON for gaming anyway? Bad idea.

No all Xeons are bad for gaming.

Początkowo opublikowane przez rad87gn:

The socket tells you what CPU's work. If they fit they will run.

That only tell you what will fit in the socket , doesn't mean the Mobo will support it. This apply to all Motherboards for all CPU's, just because it fit, doesn't mean it will work.

Początkowo opublikowane przez rad87gn:

XEONS are made for servers. They are made for many cores to process things like databases and applications for businesses. They are not made for gaming.

This is true, but we have no idea why he wants to do this, we can't just assume what he wants to use it for, if he has one right now, or looking into getting one. The answer will remain unclear until he give his reason why he want to use a Xeon.

[[UFO] rad87gn]

Yes, I know. I've built multi-million dollar systems many times. Gaming systems as well. Gaming servers and more. Pretty sure I have a good idea how it all works.

[[UFO] rad87gn]

Many get crazy about the CPU when the GPU is the most important gaming wise. On a server the CPU and RAM is most important. They are 2 different animals. If you know what you are doing you will see the difference. On a gaming system the CPU core performance is very important. More so than having a lot of weak cores. The XEONS are about low clock speeds and many cores. That works great with things like databases and software in a professional area. Not so much for gaming.

A nice I5 will perform the same as a 16 core XEON gaming. Put a nice GPU on top of that. Now you are talking. You don't have to spend that kind of money to game well. You do if your company is running millions of $$$ on a x8 XEON system on 8 clusters. They are not related at all.

Totally different ideas and money spent in the right place to get what you need.

[just.kamk /idle]

We are not talking about multi-CPU server solutions, we are just plainly talking about the Xeon brand, nothing else.

There's high clocked versions as well.