Well my gamble paid of.

[Klee]

I have been looking for a couple of E5 V2 xeon's for the motherboard that I thought I had sold and that I sold the 2670 V1 cpu's from and I came across something that was a big gamble.

I bid on two E5-2695 V2 cpu's and won one of them.

They were listed "as is" because he could not test them, the seller had over 300 transactions with %100 feedback so I took a chance and bid on both of them but won only one.

It is OEM not ES at a much cheaper price than ES's sell for.

Just booted up with just the basics with a Ubuntu 16.04 live disk and it works.

I'm using a Arctic cooling i11 because its the shortest socket 2011 cooler that I have and it barely fits in the case I am using but it sure has a small contact area on the cpu.

Now I wish I would have bid a little higher on the second one because I only have one cpu on my dual cpu board.

 

[T_Minus]

SCORE! That's a great outcome.

 

[Klee]

SCORE! That's a great outcome.

$142.50 plus $7.25 shipping.


Installing Ubuntu 16.04 as i'm typing this.

Dug out a 120 gig ssd, one of those cheap scan disk ones for $40 at best buy.

I will install a XFX 7700 gpu also.

 

[RobertFontaine]

Sweet. I hadn't realized how much these had come down in price. This is making me have that weird itch again.

 

[Klee]

Sweet. I hadn't realized how much these had come down in price. This is making me have that weird itch again.

They did not, they are way WAY more on ebay than what I payed.

 

[Rapturoso]

I have that weird itch too. I have two of the E5 2630 v4 10 cores (QK3G retail stepping ES2, QS/Retail identical) and they were $165 each. I'd like to upgrade to 20+ cores on the v4 Xeons. Hopefully some will flood onto the market cheap with the release of the v5 Xeons.