e5-2650 v2 for $75-80 or less

[wildpig1234]

Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2650 V2 (20M Cache, 2.60 GHz) SR1A8 | eBay

INTEL XEON E5-2650V2 SR1A8 2.60GHz 20MB L3 8GT/s LGA2011 8-CORE PROCESSOR | eBay

e5-2650 v2 is a direct replacement for e5-2670. same number of cores and speed... At this instance, it seems like the spot price for e5-2670 is around $70-80 also. so there is really no reason why you shouldn't get the e5-2650 v2 instead.

2650 v2 runs cooler, less power. also allows for pcie 3.0 on intel s2600 board. who doesn't like a v2 more? there is really no disadvantage at all given the price is the same....

 

[burtonmadness]

v2 prices have started to tumble again. Is this due to large recycling, or just new CPUs coming into the secondhand market again?

 

[e97]

cache is 5MB less which can be a big performance hit

 

[wildpig1234]

yeah, that's why it's a lot cheaper than 2660 v2.... but right now it's same price as 2670 so this makes more sense compared to 2670.

 

[wildpig1234]

yeah, that's why it's a lot cheaper than 2660 v2.... but right now it's same price as 2670 so this makes more sense compared to 2670.

 

[AVD2359]

ARK says 2670 (v1) has PCIe3. And Passmark shows the 2650v2 being slightly faster, in both 1T & all-core. Just FWIW.

 

[wildpig1234]

ARK says 2670 (v1) has PCIe3. And Passmark shows the 2650v2 being slightly faster, in both 1T & all-core. Just FWIW.

for people with intel s2600 boards, intel artificially limits most pcie cards to pcie 2.0 when using v1 cpu.... it's well known. don't ask why... just another intel bs....

given same price, there is no reason to get 2670 over 2650 v2

 

[nthu9280]

In addition VTd is broken on older stepping V1 (SR0L*) which are production release also and were being sold on the ebay. I haven't checked lately as I don't need anymore LGA2011 CPUs.

 

[RobstarUSA]

In addition VTd is broken on older stepping V1 (SR0L*) which are production release also and were being sold on the ebay. I haven't checked lately as I don't need anymore LGA2011 CPUs.

In which way? I've had a windows VM on my E5-2690 (under KVM) with a video card passed through & it played games great...

According to cpu-world, SR0L0 is C2, and SR0HA is C1. I'd avoid HA, but SR0L0 should be the newest revision.

 

[nthu9280]

@RobstarUSA - IIRC, SR0K* are the latest stepping of V1 chips. AFAIK, SR0H* had the VTd issue not sure if it was fixed in SR0L* release.
Check the big thread on E5-2670 here or Intel's PCN.

 

[RobstarUSA]

@RobstarUSA - IIRC, SR0K* are the latest stepping of V1 chips. AFAIK, SR0H* had the VTd issue not sure if it was fixed in SR0L* release.
Check the big thread on E5-2670 here or Intel's PCN.

Usually CPU-world.com has all the revisions. It has the SR0KX for E5-2670, but doesn't list any SR0K* for E5-2690.

Do you know of an SR0K* for the E5-2690? Not really intersted in the 70 as the 90 is so cheap.

Also: Does intel logically use the alphabet in order? If so SR0L0 should have come after SR0k*

 

[dontwanna]

I haven't seen C1 rev. Sandy CPUs on ebay for ages. They do exist, I guess, but getting one today is very unlikely.

Has anyone bought any from the listing in the first post? What kinds of BO does the seller accept?

 

[wildpig1234]

if you get two 2650 v2, your multicore performance is better than 1 single i9-9900k. think about that! for $150 compared to over $500 right now for an i9-9900k...

obviously there's nothing you can do about the i9 being almost twice as fast for single core.

 

[voodoo3d]

Thats right if you find a cheap 2011 board

 

[wildpig1234]

The cheapest solution thats at least standard hardware is probably intel s2600 or a supermicro board...I also like lenovo d30 v2 if you can score a good deal