Recent content by Neil Jefferies

Frankly, I've had more problems with dodgy people/goods on eBay and Amazon than Aliexpress.

A quick benchmark (logged in to KDE with a few services running so not as good as it could be). https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/13439656

@tubs-ffm You could always try Aliexpress. A lot of the stores are now VAT registered which takes the whole customs issue out of the equation. My most recent chip order took about 2 weeks to arrive.

I was being cautious - I know Intel motherboards were particularly bad at not supporting OEM chips in the Sandy/Ivy bridge era.

The "sleeper" chip in the LGA2011-3 range is the E5-2696V3 with 18-cores that clock up to 3.8GHz (Wikipedia is correct on this one!). Compares quite well with a Threadripper 1950X in single and multicore for under $100 with reg-ecc support and all the other nice Xeon goodies.. Of course, it is...

Posted a few of these on 2CPU way back when. I like to bulld cheaply and compactly - https://neilstechdocs.blogspot.com/2022/03/shoehorning-duallies-slightly-bigger.html Build’s Name: Bit of a beast! Operating System/ Storage Platform: OpenSuse/KVM CPU: 2x E5-2696 V3 (36-cores, 72 threads...

They could well have done - my TX650M's didn't and 550W/450W PSU's certainly won't.

Don't worry too much about it. I suspect the person in that other forum didn't know what they were doing. As stated, EPS12V is basically two 4-pin ATX 12V connectors stuck together. Some motherboards (Asus springs to mind) would work if you plugged an ATX 12V connector into the correct half of...

Since you're already going to Ikea you could try building a LackRack to fit: LackRack - Eth0Wiki

Mine do (I have boards from Killsre, Huananxhi and Jingsha).

E5-26xx Xeons are generally locked so the best you can do for overclocking is maybe tweak BCLK. For overclocking you either want an E5-16xx (or a 2011-3 motherboard with an E5 V3). More information can be found here: Xeon-e5450.ru - Серверные процессоры для игровых и рабочих ПК. Характеристики...

Linux tends to distribute its threads quite widely among CPU's and the default intel frequency governer spins them up to turbo speeds quite quickly. The general principle being that it uses less power getting the job done quickly and then idling (also remembering that the cpu frequency...

Supermicro H11SSl-NT is close - 7 slots 16/8x plus 2 onboard 10GB ports

Sounds like power/thermal budget limitations. Windows also seems to have problems with Ivy/Sandy bridge - try changing Windows Power Management to Performance.

Which motherboard? There are dozens. Generally it's silkscreened onto them but most use the standard color coding on a yellow header...red for HDD LED, green for power LED, blue for reset switch and black for power switch.