I've been thinking about upgrading my old Xeon X5660-based workstation for a while now. Main goal is a higher per-thread performance at a reasonable price. However, Xeon is a must, since I want ECC RAM. Given that I want high per-thread performance, it's probably going to be E5-16x0.
Looking at CPU prices, the E5v3 parts are still too expensive for what they deliver. E5-16x0v1/2 parts are much more reasonable though. However, I'd like to fit things onto mATX if possible, and although mATX LGA2011v3 mainboards exist, there seems to be a dearth of mATX LGA2011 boards?
Does anyone have any suggestions here? Thanks in advance!
Looking at CPU prices, the E5v3 parts are still too expensive for what they deliver. E5-16x0v1/2 parts are much more reasonable though. However, I'd like to fit things onto mATX if possible, and although mATX LGA2011v3 mainboards exist, there seems to be a dearth of mATX LGA2011 boards?
Does anyone have any suggestions here? Thanks in advance!