May 2, 20197 yr When I bought my SuperMicro X9DRL-IF mobo it came with 2x Xeon E5-2620 v1 CPUs. At the time they seemed fine but I think I'm really in need of an upgrade now as I add more users to my PLEX server. Has anyone upgraded from an E5-2620 v1 or similar to a v2 chip and thought it was worth it? Any suggestions on which particular CPU to upgrade to? As far as I understand I should be able to use any socket 2011 (but not 2011-1 or 2011-3) 2xxx Xeon chip.
May 2, 20197 yr Author 6 minutes ago, StevenD said: E5-2680v2s are cheap. Just make sure your BIOS can support v2 procs. Thanks for the reply. According to SuperMicro's site it shouldn't be an issue. https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X9DRL-iF.cfm Any reason you recommend the 2680v2 in particular? Looks like they are about $180ea which is a little more than I was hoping to spend at the moment. Edited May 2, 20197 yr by HighNoon
May 4, 20197 yr It's not just the BIOS, board revision can also be a factor in V2 compatibility. Some of the 1.0x rev X9 boards were not compatible and users had to RMA the board to Supermicro for rework. 2680 V2 is a sweet spot for higher clock, # of cores, and price point. Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk
May 6, 20197 yr My suggestion if you don't want to spend a lot of money will be the E5-2670 or E5-2690 both v1 they come cheap are a good upgrade in terms of cores, frequency and CPU cache
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