Intel Xeon E5-2670 Deal and Price Tracking

[SavageWS6]

I believe the 'SQ' at the end of the product name stands for Super Quiet, and those PSUs are supposed to be so in comparison to the usual 'aircraft engine' sounding PSUs. I think you are right on getting it as that is exactly what you want for a homelab.

Yup SQ for Super Quiet. Yup, the older PSU is loud as hell and a aircraft turbine pretty much. It's nice and quiet in my closest right now. The loudest thing now is the 3x 80mm Delta's in the chassis

 

[Triggerhappy]

Picked up a pair for $50 each for my home server. Replaced the 2630L's that were in there previously. Oddly enough, temps went down, fans spun down so system is quieter and idle power consumption dropped too (assume due to lower fan speed). Couldn't be happier with the upgrade.

 

[Srmarkovic]

I am waiting for 64GB ECC 1333 DDR3 and PCIe usb3.0. Still don't know what GPU to use and I still don't have sound card.

 

[Srmarkovic]

Phantex Enthoo Pro 122€ (including shipping - 12€!!!)
2xE5-2670 118€
2x cooler LC-CC-120 49€
Motherboard 216€ (including shipping and PCIe SAS/SATA 8i Intel raid)


Still waiting courier with
64GB 1333 ECC DDR3 98€
PCIe USB 3.0 13€

 

[Churchill]

I bought the Vantec USB 3.0 card off Amazon, the Anker one was pure garbage with Windows 10. It works like a champ, Got much better performance, and rock solid drivers.

Best of all it was $20

 

[sthsep]

Now if only the 2680's or 90's v2 would plummet in price. Better yet the v3's. Someone at Google/Facebook needs to start buying v4's in big numbers. I hope you are listening out there

Facebook will not buy v4 cpus. They go for there new platform with xeon D.

 

[Snakewka]

Any advice on which motherboard to get and heatsink? Looking to put together a desktop

 

[RobertFontaine]

Something X79 for a single cpu desktop no need for ecc ram.

 

[Snakewka]

Something X79 for a single cpu desktop no need for ecc ram.

Thank you! Looking for a dual cpu setup and ecc ram as well, any suggestions there?

 

[Jannis Jacobsen]

Any advice on which motherboard to get and heatsink? Looking to put together a desktop

A used Dell precision T5600 of ebay.
I got one with Dual E5-2670, 32GB memory, an old quadro gfx card, 500Gb hdd, win7 dell oem sticker on the machine.
$500 and just under $40 in shipping.

Would be hard to build anything like it for that price.
(Remember to put SSD on the sata1 port, not on HDD0, HDD0-4 is sas in sata mode, and only 3gbps, so good for spindledrives)

-J

 

[josh]

A used Dell precision T5600 of ebay.
I got one with Dual E5-2670, 32GB memory, an old quadro gfx card, 500Gb hdd, win7 dell oem sticker on the machine.
$500 and just under $40 in shipping.

Would be hard to build anything like it for that price.
(Remember to put SSD on the sata1 port, not on HDD0, HDD0-4 is sas in sata mode, and only 3gbps, so good for spindledrives)

-J

Can't find anything that cheap anymore

 

[josh]

Something X79 for a single cpu desktop no need for ecc ram.

Get an ECC compatible board. Those are much cheaper than regular desktop RAM.

 

[Srmarkovic]

Does anyone success to track mb temperature and fans speed in Windows?

 

[Srmarkovic]

I found! SpeedFan, old freeware software see all onboard sensors and it WORKS!

 

[josh]

A used Dell precision T5600 of ebay.
I got one with Dual E5-2670, 32GB memory, an old quadro gfx card, 500Gb hdd, win7 dell oem sticker on the machine.
$500 and just under $40 in shipping.

Would be hard to build anything like it for that price.
(Remember to put SSD on the sata1 port, not on HDD0, HDD0-4 is sas in sata mode, and only 3gbps, so good for spindledrives)

-J

Btw is it worth getting the t5600 mobo by itself? Can reuse old parts for the rest. Just wondering because it doesn't come with the I/O shield and Dell usually has the problem with the front panel connections.

 

[keybored]

Does anyone success to track mb temperature and fans speed in Windows?

Try this: HWMONITOR | Softwares | CPUID

 

[Jannis Jacobsen]

Btw is it worth getting the t5600 mobo by itself? Can reuse old parts for the rest. Just wondering because it doesn't come with the I/O shield and Dell usually has the problem with the front panel connections.

I believe the motherboard is made for the specific case, and I believe that Dell also dont use standard 24p mb power connectors.
Might be an issue getting it installed in a different case

-J

 

[josh]

I believe the motherboard is made for the specific case, and I believe that Dell also dont use standard 24p mb power connectors.
Might be an issue getting it installed in a different case

-J

That's what I thought. But the full unit costs so much more with a lot more junk. I'm seeing $600 for a single CPU and a crappy K600. That means I still need to find a second HSF. The dual CPUs start at $900 and half the time come with 2609s.

 

[Srmarkovic]

Still with plastic protection.

 

[RobertFontaine]

brg lightses.... now all it needs is stickers to make it go faster.... I put all my stickers on the inside of my hood close to the engine to add horsepowers.