Which XEON CPUs are GOOD? Why are they NAMED like that?!

these days i score e5-2699v3's for 50 dollar each and a dual socket x99 board with 2xnvme and everything for 100dollar. also dirt cheap 16gig sticks (8 of them) for like 10-12 each. so for less than 300 i got a 36 core/72 thread with 128gb ddr4 ecc 2133mhz as my unraid server with 2x2tb nvma on the board an an extra 1tb in pcie(the machinist x99 d8 max have 4x16 lans pcie). not needed but i also put in some gtx1080ti's i had laying around and some good wd red and ironwolf disks so total 50tb and parity. great parts for low cost !!

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A Chinese seller on eBay is selling Xeon E5-2687W's for 20 USD. It's the ultimate Sandy Bridge beast: 8 cores and 16 threads, 20MB of L3 cache- clocked at a respectable 3.1GHz base 3.8GHz max turbo. Got a Gigabyte GA-X79-UD3 rev. 1.0 for $85 Canadian. Now that's value. Not that I need any of this because I have an AMD Ryzen PC. Still interesting to tinker with, though.

Just what I needed to know - my E5 1620 perhaps is worth gaming on.

Love my dual e5 v2 2667. Cost me 140 euros mb plus 16 gb ram and cpus included 😁😁

I will not buy a Xeon CPU ever again.... Total waste of Money.... In Dubai they sold to my company a double xeon (48 cores) 192 GB of memory ram and Quadro GPU... Well... It is in the store... Never used... The clock speed is so slow that an i5 intel is much faster... Really a total waste of money... Buy ryzen 5950x...intel 13900k...anything....but not xeon...

Good video

I have an old HP Z440 with a E51620v3, 32 GB ddr4, Quadro K2200, 500gb Samsung 850. $240 Australian. I will upgrade the GPU and PSU. You can go to the V4 range running 2400 rather than 2133 memory. The main reason I bought it is because they are bullet proof. Cool 😎 video.

Great video thank you.

Keep it up you'll get the views you deserve

Awesome video
I just got the E3-1241 v3 for $37. A nice and noticeable upgrade from my i3-4170. Cinebench r23 went from 2086 multi / 881 single to 4350 multi / 948 single.

I highly recommend these older xeons, they're so cheap now and the performance is still pretty good.

Oh wow, comparing CPU only by clock speed and cores. Quality content.

there are a few v3 xeons that support waaay cheaper ddr3 ram (E5 2696 v3 being one of them) However most v3 cpus want ddr4.

Ive built one for the fun of it...with xeon 2696 v3 18-core cpu ( that one supports both ddr4/drr3) and 8 sticks of 32gb 1866 server ddr3 ram for 256gb total...Its not very powerful today but its unusual and was fun to build! Ddr3 server ram is almost free compared to ddr4 so thats why i went with ddr3 motherboard version (both are avaliable on da bay)

I got the funky 10 core E5 2689 V4 (3.1 GHZ base, 3.8 boost, however it comfortably sits at 3.7 GHZ at 100% load) , basically a nicer version of the i7 6950x (at stock speeds). Haven't regretted it! I do wonder if I would have been better served by the 2699 V4 though, considering I do AI work, video editing, and 3d Rendering in addition to gaming, but I consider this a stopgap upgrade. I bought the cpu so I could more comfortably support a 3090 I got on sale without needing to upgrade my motherboard, cpu, AND RAM.

Im not seeing amd boards for less than 80 bucks anymore unless ali express . But x99 will come with ram and an ok xeon cpu for that price.
Which sucks as I have a spare ryzen cpu and planned on a 50$ board but prices have almost doubled since last year

The EPYC has much better naming. There are a lot of 1st and 2nd gen EPYC coming out from corporate refresh, with decent performance. Just make sure you don't get the ones vendor locked.

Hey! I know the video is 1 year old at this point, but i was wondering if you can help me with something. I just recently bought HP Z420 thats going to be my cheap second backup PC (i need it for work) but i also want to game on it from time to time. I have a spare 1660ti to put in it, but i was wondering, what Xeon from V2 series would be best for it? (Z420 i bought already has E5-1650v2 in it, with HP water cooling, and 16gb of RAM) OR, i read some comparisons, do you think a CPU upgrade is needed at all? I seen on different benchmarks, that 1650 v2 is bottlenecking the GPU quite a lot, but im just not sure at this point what should i upgrade it to

Its good to see you selecting xeon e5-2667 series for computation. Although, i want to make high end workstation with better clock speed & better benchmark. Afters days, i came to select e5-2667 v4. If you are conscious about clock speed & don't want extra cores, thats the right choice.....

Any chance you could add chapters to this video?

Know the consumer side decently well but server side nothing. Am trying to build a firewall like PFsense with Xenon. The new Intel® Xeon® E-2314 cost around $220. Not sure if I should go for this or the ones you recommend (They all seem to be very old and used) Any help would be great

Interesting. I built numerous Xeon systems using desktop motherboards with only the socket type as my guide; thus, CPU naming schemes has not mattered much to me.

A year later, this is still good info. FWIW I have been running an HP Z420 with an e5-2680v2 before recently upgrading to an E5-2667 v2, which netted me about a 20% performance improvement according to geekbench 6. However, I also on a lark bought a Ryzen based Beelink SER5 5800H which, according to geekbench, is like 3x faster than my current setup. Great improvement, right? Well, when running the actual stuff I do (like handbrake) the beelinkk was really only about 10% faster than my decade old xeon rig: when running handbrake transcoding a 4K HDR video to 4K smpte601 with h264 encoding, the difference was about 8fps for the beelink compared to 7fps for my xeon setup. And of course, the beelink has very limited expansion capability, so I sold it (for a profit, as I bought the beelink on sale) and am now in the process of building myself ANOTHER z420 workstation, this time with added usb3 ports (fifty bucks for another 6 ports) and a nice rack of drives powering a zfs raid pool. Its amazing what a bargain these old machines are still today. I'm not a gamer, but hoping for more talks like this one I've subscribed. Best wishes.

I wanted to ask a few questions regarding the new workstation laptop i am testing and soon buying
Precision 7730,
It has a (Xeon E-217M-2.7ghz), 32gb ram , NVIDIA Quadro P3200 6gb,
Is that worth it in 2023? For heavy gaming and editing etc? How old is that technology ?you think i should get some other processor instead ? If yes then which one will support all heavy games and processes around the same price as 217m. And both inside precision line up and outside this lineup.

And what performance does this processor lies in? Bcz it has an M in the end.

The website says it lies in Mobile category? What is mobile? Whats the difference between a Mobile and workstation? Is a mobile weaker than station?

Also in display settings it says its a SDR display which is bad compared to HDR displays

I literally just built a xeon build as a workstation. 18 cores, 36 threads 64gb of ram. Under 400 bucks. Lol. (Not including case an such. However it's insane how cheap these chips are. An even crazier how powerful they are.

I am currently running a broadwell 6850k, I love this motherboard I have (the x99 taichi my beloved), but I don't know if upgrading the CPU makes any sense, and after looking at the 2011v3 socket cpus its totally overwhelming. Your video was awesome though, I really needed it!

im curious do you also have also a recommendation for a power saving low power focused xeon for a 24/7 use? I dont even mind to lower the clocks. I ask cuz in the EU the power bills skyrocketed lately and I need basically a replacement for my HP Z420 NAS

Is e3 1245 good for gaming

There's no reason to chase the "unicorn" Xeon E5 1680 v3. The E5 1660 v3 has the exact same specs (except lower stock clockspeed) and is much cheaper. In the v2 generation, the 1650 and 1660 had six cores (with the 1660 having more L3 cache) while the 1680 had eight cores. In the v3 generation, the 1650 has six cores while the 1660 and 1680 have eight cores and the same amount of L3 cache.

As a collector of Intel's HEDT platforms, I still run several rigs with Xeons, including the W3690, E5 1680 v2, and the E5 1660 v3. I love them all!

I just got a free Dell Precision 5810 with a stock e5-1650 v3. I plan on upgrading with an AMX 6600 for some budget gaming. Is it worth upgrading the CPU to a 1660 v4 for 80 bucks or should a just get a higher end v3 like a 2667 or 2687. Like you said, its very overwhelming ahaha.

thanks for the effort

Can you maybe explain the lga 2011 v3 editions? I mean i bought today a weird china board and i dont understand wat it can run it has lga 2011 x99H (as in speccy shown) so dont understand it? Its compaired with an intel xeon E5 2669 V3 bought this for 80 euro thought lets get into it but its so not understandable

Thanks for the content.. ive got 2 x e5-2620 v4 cpu's ..what board would u recommend...ddr4 ..

Omg xeons are so intriguing! It's like the other side slightly more unknown side of computers.

i have xeon e5 1620 v2 3.70 ghz is it better than i7 4 gen not k ones in gaming

Chris is venom

Patiently waiting for the X99 Xeon unicorns to surface. 10-14 cores with OC capability goodness

I love these xeon workstations. I've had a Dell dual quad T5400 running 32gb ddr ecc. Looking to upgrade to Hp dual e5 quads with nvme pcie. Comes with 64gb ddr4. Here in Australia they sell for $500au.

Great video, a lot of useful info there!

Question.?. I ended Buying the Old Dell T7810 16 Core 32 thread Server-- Aka the Beast... for $390 +tax. 🤣😂

Dual (x2) 3.2Ghz 8 Core 16 Thread
E5 2667 V4 w/ oem 3.6Ghz max Turbo
32gb RAM DDR4 (2x16gb)
500GB SSD
3TB SATA HD
685w power supply
1GB graphics card

Upgrades once I get it.. xD
64gb of 3200mhz DDR4
2TB MVNe/pcie
2TB ssd Drive
8GB EVGA GTX 1070 TI WTF (2x8pin version)


But, I like to know What kind of Next Gen X2 Xeon-- I would be able to build, in the Future... with 12 Core or 16+ Cores @ 3.0+ghz..

Even, if they are Way Over Priced-- at the moment. Thanks.

Intel Confidential and Intel Xeon models with the same part numbers are different beasts as well and brand boards does not like the Confidential ones.

he forgor xeon scalable series 💀

Came here after Nerd on a Budgets video 😂👍

You have a good point on the naming 🤣
But great overview, really glad to see someone still values Xeon CPU’s when it comes to old systems or low to mid range gaming pc’s!

bro do you think this pc worth $250?
asus p6t
i7 930
gtx 760
psu 400w 80+ bronze
hdd 500gb
ram 8gb
im new into pc so i need little bit help 😌

You're always talking about Xeons in your previous budget build videos, it's great to make some sense of the crazy names. Keep up the awesome work bud!