shiecldk Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 Hi guys, LTNS! I happened to got a new E5-2630 V3 CPU on my hand. I was intending to sell the CPU, however I found out the price I could earn doesn't seems to be quite worth for this CPU. Anyway, I've searched plenty posts, and found out 1 or 2 of the posts appears to convince me this CPU could work, but I am really NOT SURE... And I haven't see anyone use a LGA2011-3 server motherboard under OSX yet. Would the LGA2011-3 server motherboard with C612 chipset work, and even for the boards with two CPU slots and two 8-core Xeon E5 V3 CPUs? If I only install one CPU on the dual-CPU board, will it work too? And, by the way, does anyone know if Supermicro motherboard's quality and warranty is OK? Because I can only find very very few comments and reviews about Supermicro in Taiwan; and most of the comments appears that this company has a bad warranty service for its retail motherboard in my country, at least. Otherwise, I'll just go with Gigabyte or ASUS(? )'s X99 boards, and give up C612 server boards. X10DAL-i-O http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/xeon/c600/x10dal-i.cfm X10SRA-F http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X10SRA-F.cfm In fact, I have a new GA-Z97X-UD7-TH (without a haswell CPU yet ), and I wonder if this Xeon CPU along with X99 or C612 would work perfectly under OSX just like those Z97 chipsets, in the near future... Since I've seen some comments indicated that not until Apple updates its Mac Pro with LGA2011-3, will x99 still require a patched kernel. And I think patched kernel means no native (or fully) power management? Otherwise I should alter to Z97... I kinda feel like me as a noob... Any help and advice would be pretty much appreciative! <3 Love you guys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shiecldk Posted August 4, 2015 Author Share Posted August 4, 2015 No one willing to guide me...? Any short comment would be great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peerke Posted August 16, 2015 Share Posted August 16, 2015 Rampagedev is working on an Asus C612 board with dual Xenon CPUs. Not done yet, but should come soon. Check his site for progress. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ANGGAX Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 Are you still continue this build? If you interest you can pick some X99 motherboard from Asrock. Unlike other X99 boards, Asrock support both xeon and i7 2011-v3 cpus. So basically you can put single xeon on those boards and ECC memory without worries. For example (X99 Extreme 6): http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/X99%20Extreme6/?cat=CPUI'm also plan to build X99 with Xeon/i7-5930K, but since Broadwell-E and Mac Pro 7.1 probably roll out this year, i'm holding back and keep the motherboard only, until apple released a new mac pro with broadwell-e processor to get better native cpu support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfer96822 Posted March 27, 2016 Share Posted March 27, 2016 Apparently the X99 chip boards in general support Xeons as well as ECC Ram http://www.cpu-upgrade.com/mb-Gigabyte/GA-X99-UD4(rev._1.0).html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crashnburn_in Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 Did this ever work out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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