Intel Xeon E5-2670 Deal and Price Tracking

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J Hart

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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.
My other machine has a S2600IP4 motherboard and it has treated me well.
 

Erik C

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My other machine has a S2600IP4 motherboard and it has treated me well.
My primary workstation also has a s2600ip4 and a pair of E5-2680 processors. IIRC it was an unused pull. I put it through its paces over the last couple years as a CAD workstation and never had a motherboard problem. I helped a friend build a clone and it is also trouble free.

I was happy enough that I bought a S2600CP2J for a spare workstation. Since it is a spare, it only sees intermittent games or web browsing. No trouble so far.
 

AlphaG

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At least this one reseller Techyparts on eBay has a large quantity (over 150 available) of 2670v2 for sale at $229 each. I picked up a new-looking system pull Intel S2600CP4 from ebay and am looking for RAM and CPU’s to upgrade my old Supermicro dual AMD setup.

This might be a good sign that many more used v2’s are on the way. While $229 seems like a good deal, I hope the prices drop even more ....

Intel SR1A7 Xeon E5-2670v2 10-Core 2.50GHz 8GT/S 25MB Socket LGA2011 CPU Grade A
 
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I was going to put a pair of 2690's in a machine but now i'm not sure. Not much more for the 2670v2
true, but that's not the comparison i would do. E5-2690 vs E5-2690v2 would be $175~$250 vs $390~$500. Or, E5-2670 vs E5-2670v2 would be $80~$100 vs $180~$220.
 

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true, but that's not the comparison i would do. E5-2690 vs E5-2690v2 would be $175~$250 vs $390~$500. Or, E5-2670 vs E5-2670v2 would be $80~$100 vs $180~$220.
I'm looking at it as 8 1/2ghz faster cores or 10 newer gen cores (should allow PCIe 3.0 on the newer chip along with faster ram).
 

Roy68

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I rolled the dice on a couple of E5-2680 V2s today.
INTEL XEON E5-2680V2 2.80GHZ 10-CORE 25MB CPU PROCESSOR SR1A6 CPU Only | eBay

Buying Chinese is a risk but I've generally been OK, not sure why but duty and shipping to UK always seems much cheaper than from North America. Will let you know how I get on.

Hoping these will be a nice upgrade over my E5-2670 V1s which have served me well for a year in my workstation built around Natex sourced Intel S2600CPJ MOBO. Seems to be a good jump in Cinebench R15 benchmark performance (the E5-280 V2s score > 2600 compared to around 2000 for the E52670 V1s). My workload is mainly rendering in Blender so I hope this is representative.

Anyone know if I need to make any firmware changes when I pop these new ones in, or is it just plug 'n' play? Thanks!
 

Roy68

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For V2 processors you will need to make sure the motherboard has the latest bios which supports V2 Microcode. If you are already on the latest bios and it has support for V2 processors then it is just plug and play.
Thanks Nanotech

My bios reports version SE5C600.86B.02.06.0002. Anyone have one of the S2600 boards know if this bios supports the V2s? I do seem to remember updating the bios when I got the board
 

AlphaG

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Thanks Nanotech

My bios reports version SE5C600.86B.02.06.0002. Anyone have one of the S2600 boards know if this bios supports the V2s? I do seem to remember updating the bios when I got the board
The release notes from latest version (2.06.0006) gives the version history:

https://downloadmirror.intel.com/26957/eng/ReleaseNotes_BIOS_02.06.0006.txt

Looks like v2 support was introduced in 2.01.0001 but some potentially significant bug fixes in subsequent versions.
 
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wildpig1234

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for v2, 2696 is actually the best bargain for number of cores right now I think. got two of those for $290 each recently
 

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Wow, congrats on the great deal! ...was that ebay?!?
ebay, of course. it's a decent deal but not unexpected. price will probably drop even more soon. It's like the last hurray for the 2011 v1 platform upgrade. so now my s2600cp MB can finally use PCI express 3.0....lol..

I already got another build going based on 2011 v3 with dual 2686 v3..
 
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ebay, of course. it's a decent deal but not unexpected. price will probably drop even more soon. It's like the last hurray for the 2011 v1 platform upgrade. so now my s2600cp MB can finally use PCI express 3.0....lol..

I already got another build going based on 2011 v3 with dual 2686 v3..
Which seller?
 
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