Intel Xeon E5-2670 Deal and Price Tracking

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pricklypunter said:
@Klee The first board looks to be an Invetec B800, if so they are, generally speaking, reliable. They are decent value for money no frills entry level boards, but support is all but non existent. The good news is that pretty much everything on Invetec boards is off the shelf, so Chipset manufacturers are carrying the support load to some extent. I have no experience with that x79 board, but the Realtek nic's would kill it for me. It's still probably decent value for money though, depending on what you were doing with it :)
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They are indeed Inventec B800. I have been running one for slightly more than 1 year with ESXi and they are rock solid. I got my board from the same ebay seller. They are very decent and good to do business with.

I reached out the engineer in Taiwan for an updated BIOS but they simply didn't have any updated version. Those are indeed OEM boards so per the engineer if the client didn't pay for updating the BIOS then they will not spend resource on those tasks.
 
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Yea, I have used various Inventec boards for projects on and off since the 90's, but as you stated, if the original design didn't call for ongoing support, then Inventec just skip it. For the most part, they are decent boards. I can't think of a single failure in that time either, so they are reliable :)
 
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I'm about to start building a new workstation and looking at CPU's. Seems on the LGA-2011 side of things, the E5-2660V2's are the best bang for buck right now? (for a v2 CPU...)

SR1AB INTEL XEON E5-2660V2 10 CORE 2.20GHz 95W PROCESSOR FOR DELL T5600 C8220 | eBay

$135 - 2.2Ghz, Turbo to 3Ghz. 10 Core, 25Mb cache...

Should I pull the trigger? - Anything to note about these CPU's? (like the VT-d issues with the 2670's?)
 
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I think those v2 are a great bang for buck right now!
I've seen the 2670 v2 starting to dip a bunch in last few months toos o keep an eye on them.
 
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T_Minus said:
I think those v2 are a great bang for buck right now!
I've seen the 2670 v2 starting to dip a bunch in last few months toos o keep an eye on them.
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Really? I see them hovering around the $330+ mark? They come down a lot recently? Doesn't seem to be a big flood of them like the 2660v2's right?
 
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Def. not as cheap or as many as the 2660 v2 that's for sure but they are dropping well under 300 keep your eye out and send 'best offers'.
 
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nthu9280 said:
Looks like E5-2670 V1 (SR0KX) have spiked to >$100. 'bay says that the price is trending $175 on the listings.
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Yea, I was looking at buy 2 more and my eBay purchases from Dec 2015 had them at $65 ea and this morning they were above $100 like you mentioned =/
 
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Looking to build something like this in the future and I would like to know some things.

For anyone that has dual Xeon setups, can you share your temperatures for both CPUs? Would be nice to tell us your case and CPU coolers as well.
 
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mikeleo1157 said:
Looking to build something like this in the future and I would like to know some things.

For anyone that has dual Xeon setups, can you share your temperatures for both CPUs? Would be nice to tell us your case and CPU coolers as well.
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The current build for my workstation is:
Corsair Air Carbide 540
Intel S2600CP4
2 x Intel E5-2670 w Noctua NH-U9S
16 x Samsung 8GB DDR3 1600Mhz
Intel DC S3500 800GB SSD
ZOTAC GTX 1060 Mini

Fans:
4 x Noctua NF-A9
2 x Noctua NF-A14
4 x Noctua NF-F12

Temperatures are hovering between 45-51 Celsius. It's warm where I live so it tends to get hotter.

I'm not too sure about the temps in my server though.
 
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Hate to bump this - anyone experience an Intel S2600CP2J fail? Woke up Sunday morning to my server especially silent. Turns out it was off. It was on a APC UPS 1500 unit for power conditioning and all. My other server, a Dell R620 was up and happy no issue. I stripped the Intel S2600CP2J down to just the board, applied power, and nothing. My Supermicro PSUs just light their amber light up and off, over and over when plugged into it. Almost like a ground fault or something. Super drag, because I had it less than a year. I emailed Natex to see if they can do anything. Any others?
 
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5mall5nail5 said:
Hate to bump this - anyone experience an Intel S2600CP2J fail? Woke up Sunday morning to my server especially silent. Turns out it was off. It was on a APC UPS 1500 unit for power conditioning and all. My other server, a Dell R620 was up and happy no issue. I stripped the Intel S2600CP2J down to just the board, applied power, and nothing. My Supermicro PSUs just light their amber light up and off, over and over when plugged into it. Almost like a ground fault or something. Super drag, because I had it less than a year. I emailed Natex to see if they can do anything. Any others?
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I bought two and had one fail exactly as described. I pulled everything out only to find it was the motherboard. All the other parts were fine. Best I could figure it was something with the IME/IPMI that died. I was unable to pull any codes off of it.
 
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J Hart said:
I bought two and had one fail exactly as described. I pulled everything out only to find it was the motherboard. All the other parts were fine. Best I could figure it was something with the IME/IPMI that died. I was unable to pull any codes off of it.
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That sucks - I ordered a X9DRI-LN4F+ to replace it and emailed Natex maybe they can help
 
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Sorry that you both suffered a MB failure. I too appear to have a s2600CP2J death at less than 1 year, and less than 6 months of use, but mine is due to a failed BIOS update. I am contemplating whether to replace it with another of the same or maybe a S2600CP4. The X9DRI-LN4F+ looks interesting, but not sure if it will fit in my Intel P4216 case, and also would need to replace my raid card.
 
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