E5-1620V3 vs E5-2630V3

[nephri]

I bought for my future NAS a E5-1620V3 processor (little used) for a total of 280€

The seller sent me (probably by error) an E5-2630V3 instead of the E5-1620V3.

So main differences are:

E5-1620V3
- Single socket support
- 10 MB Smart Cache
- 4 cores / 8 threads
- 3.5 Ghz / 3.6 Ghz (turbo)
- 140W
- Support 2133 Mhz DDR4

E5-2630V3
- Dual socket support
- 20 MB Smart Cache
- 8 cores / 16 threads
- 2.4 Ghz / 3.2 Ghz (turbo)
- 85 W
- Don't support 2133 Mhz DDR4

i'm a bit confused on the 2133Mhz DDR4 support, since it what i bought !!!

What do you do at my place ?
- contact the seller and go on an exchange ?
- say nothing, test it and buy an other 1620V3 and resell this one ?

It's the second error in few days (i received the wrong motherboard. instead of a X9DRD-EF i received an MSI MS-S0991 that is a V3 dual plateform). All of theses mistakes seems to be signs to go on that way...

 

[nephri]

My first question !!
The E5-2630V3 would accept the DDR4 2133 Mhz but clockdown to 1866 Mhz or it will simply refuse it ?

 

[T_Minus]

Clock down -- but worth it to see if it does run at 2133.

For a home NAS you honestly will likely never notice the difference.

You may notice the difference though between a 1GHZ base-clock though depending on what VMs you run.

 

[Patriot]

My first question !!
The E5-2630V3 would accept the DDR4 2133 Mhz but clockdown to 1866 Mhz or it will simply refuse it ?

It won't refuse it, we only buy 2133, it works with everything.

Clock down -- but worth it to see if it does run at 2133.

For a home NAS you honestly will likely never notice the difference.

You may notice the difference though between a 1GHZ base-clock though depending on what VMs you run.

Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2630 v3 (20M Cache, 2.40 GHz) Specifications
Supports 1600 and 1866, won't run at full.

 

[PigLover]

Unless you have some heavy single-threaded task you are WAY better off with the 8 core 2630 than the 4 core 1620. And I do mean its not even a horse race here.

Keep the 2630v3.

 

[nephri]

Unless you have some heavy single-threaded task you are WAY better off with the 8 core 2630 than the 4 core 1620. And I do mean its not even a horse race here.

Keep the 2630v3.

The 1620-V3 was for an home nas. Since samba is single threaded per connection, i choosed a single proc with a high frequency but low core count. The NAS will have a 40Gb/s connection from a Chelsio T580-CR.

I'm thinking the 2630-V3 is enough and it cost at least the double than the 1620-V3 so it's not a bad deal for me (i think)

 

[gigatexal]

sMb 2.1 found in Solaris is multithreaded.

But yeah you won the lotto on chips.