yeah, that's just average price.... you can buy the components individually for about the same or slightly cheaper sometimes even...
The next gen similar price is not quite here yet..... It's getting close though..... when 1950X price goes down to $400 then it's time. Also it depends on the ddr4 ram price too...V2 is good on a budget. So buying the top sku for a ‘premium’ is not smart if you can move up to next gen for similar prices
DDR4 prices is the main reason why i still use my IvyBridge/SandyBridge/Westmere systems. I have a Haswell system too, but it's stuck at 32GB RAM which I won't upgrade until DDR4 comes down a lot more. I often resort to using my older systems when a video rendering job requires more than 32GB... :-/The next gen similar price is not quite here yet..... It's getting close though..... when 1950X price goes down to $400 then it's time. Also it depends on the ddr4 ram price too...
yep...reason for many of us. I would like to buy that older 2x10core board but with current status of major security holes in intel procesors, Im still waiting for DDR4 prices to drop in order to buy something new from AMD. Unfortunatelly Im already waiting more than year and still current DRAM oligopol wont allow this to happen. I only hope that samsung and their comrads from DRAM industry will pay for this really badly in court...few bilions of euro should send clear signal to them.DDR4 prices is the main reason why i still use my IvyBridge/SandyBridge/Westmere systems. I have a Haswell system too, but it's stuck at 32GB RAM which I won't upgrade until DDR4 comes down a lot more. I often resort to using my older systems when a video rendering job requires more than 32GB... :-/
By default most X79 motherboards won't post with RDIMM, not even with a Xeon CPU.
As you already noticed, there are some exceptions. AFAIK, all X79 boards from ASRock can use RDIMM provided you pair it with a Xeon CPU. Tried this myself with an Extreme 6 and read from plenty of people that they got it to work with higher end SKUs. Don't have any confirmation for the Extreme 4, but ASRock support is usually capable of answering that kind of question. But only up to 8GB DIMMs, they still won't post with 16GB DIMMs. Again, I tried this myself and ASRock support also confirmed.
If you want to be on the safe side for 8x16GB RDIMM, C602 chipsets are the better choice. These cheap Chinese "X79" motherboards tend to use the C602 chipset instead, hence their native support for RDIMM and lack of overclocking options. Don't know if there is one with 8 DIMM slots though.
No first-hand experience with the Asus p9x79 WS. You will read plenty of statements that it won't take RDIMM, but then again this is mostly from people who think that X79+RDIMM is an impossible combination. But my guess is that even if it works, it still won't post with 16GB DIMMs.
Yeah, that board was what used to confirm that my pair of 2696 v2 was good when i bought them a long time ago. I didn't know about the S2600 incompatibility problem back then and thought my cpu wasn't working. Sadly i could never get the supermicro board to run stable under win10... seems like that board doesn't support win10 or server 2016 completely..... so i had to return that board and got asus z9pe-d16 which is where my 2696 v2 has been in ever since...Just FYI, I can confirm these E5-2696 v2 CPUs work in Supermicro X9DR7-LN4F+ rev 1.00A motherboard. It looks like I got lucky, and my rev 1.00A board may have previously gotten the ECO rework done to support IvyBridge.
I'm not entirely convinced every Rev 1 board X9 board had the Ivy Bridge issue. Is this something that was definitely confirmed?Just FYI, I can confirm these E5-2696 v2 CPUs work in Supermicro X9DR7-LN4F+ rev 1.00A motherboard. It looks like I got lucky, and my rev 1.00A board may have previously gotten the ECO rework done to support IvyBridge.
I can't say for the general case of *every* SMC X9 motherboard... just don't have enough experience with all of them...I'm not entirely convinced every Rev 1 board X9 board had the Ivy Bridge issue. Is this something that was definitely confirmed?
The X9DRi-LN4F+ clearly needed the rework but, considering how many X9 board are being resold, you'd think more reports of the Ivy Bridge incompatibility with other boards would have popped up.
Interesting, that's at least two we know for sure then. I'm still a bit surprised there haven't been more reported issues with other X9 boards, but maybe there just arn't that many people eager to use Ivy Bridge.I can't say for the general case of *every* SMC X9 motherboard... just don't have enough experience with all of them...
In the case of the X9DR7-LN4F+, yes, I confirmed it with SMC RMA department in a long discussion over email. They told me that for this particular board, rev 1.00 and 1.00A did not support Ivy Bridge initially. Rev 1.00 did not have a ECO to support Ivy Bridge.
well, maybe 3 if you count motherboards within the same family. I know about reports of the X9DRi-LN4F+, but I've personally had ECO rework done for my X9DR3-LN4F+ as well; the 2 boards are almost identical except for the onboard intel pseudo-SAS controller on the X9DR3. So that makes the list:Interesting, that's at least two we know for sure then. I'm still a bit surprised there haven't been more reported issues with other X9 boards, but maybe there just arn't that many people eager to use Ivy Bridge.