HighNoon Posted May 2, 2019 Share Posted May 2, 2019 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. Quote Link to comment
StevenD Posted May 2, 2019 Share Posted May 2, 2019 E5-2680v2s are cheap. Just make sure your BIOS can support v2 procs. Quote Link to comment
HighNoon Posted May 2, 2019 Author Share Posted May 2, 2019 (edited) 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, 2019 by HighNoon Quote Link to comment
nthu9280 Posted May 4, 2019 Share Posted May 4, 2019 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 Quote Link to comment
Melandir Posted May 6, 2019 Share Posted May 6, 2019 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 Quote Link to comment
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