Just thought i'd let other voaters know about these unlisted Xeon chips, the X79 never had any official 8 core cpu released for it thats why this is pretty amazing, has a nice stable 4.5ghz overclock too and 25mb l3 cache, i even have the option of a 10 core or 12 core xeon but they don't overclock.
my mobo dosn't even claim to support this CPU, no commercial motherboards will as this chip was released for a single server system in 2013 and there is plenty of these unlisted xeon chips for diff sockets that usually offer more cores than what your motherboard even claimed to support and these CPUs are super cheap these days.
So if you are looking for a cheap upgrade path look into "unlisted xeon CPUs for XXX mobo platform"
You only need the newest chips if you are running a 4k system or some really crazy emulation in terms of gaming.
drhitler 0 points 7 months ago
I use coreldraw and do a bit of minor cad drawing, does the dual Xeons help a lot with vector rendering?