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Hi guys

been folding for a while now and I have a question..

what do I need to do to get one of those 8core intel spicy chip floating around on ebay to work in a regular x79 board.. Is it plug and play? cuz if I need to flash a bios then I need a working cpu in the board...

I just want to renew my i750 its gettinf tired of producing 5k ppd..
 
A lot of the ebay sales tell you which board it has been tested to work with. As long as you buy a new board from a vendor with lots of turnover you'll probably get a board with a fairly new BIOS.
 
What DooKey said.

Even with older bios, you should be fine... unless is a a very oddball chip.
 
Are you going to folding on BigADV?
If ture, then another important thing is that the chip's frequncy must be higher than 3.0GHz to meet the preferred deadline (of p8101).
 
I was looki g at a 3.2ghz 8 core es chip with 20meg cache. It will be in a home server to stream movies to my htpc... so light duty that why I will fold on it.
 
I was looki g at a 3.2ghz 8 core es chip with 20meg cache. It will be in a home server to stream movies to my htpc... so light duty that why I will fold on it hopefully it will meet the deadline even if it does some streaming and download
 
I was going to say you'd need a chip with pretty high stock speed since I'm quite sure the Intel ES chips aren't unlocked so you won't be able to overclock them very much.
 
Asrocks are pretty much the only boards that officially support Xeons in the regular desktop tier of products. Only other officially supported Xeon boards are Asus Workstation series. Odds are you might get the chip to work in any old board. My E3 is an ES Xeon, works great in my RoG board, but that was a wild guess on my part, prompted by a very cheap motherboard.
 
i forgot about the overclock part... but I will live with it, I dont want it to warm up the entire house.. 150w is high enough..

what cooling solution do you guys run on those chips?
 
I have a few of the 2.3ghz 8-cores and at full load they run at 50C max with the hyper 212 evo coolers.
 
I'vet tested my extra spicy E5-2650's in several Asus, MSI, and ECS boards. They work fine in all of them. And if it works in the ECS, I'd expect it to work in just about anything besides an Intel board (since they can't even get their own retail 3820 working without an RMA to flash the BIOS).
 
I just figure I should buy one of those if I dont plan on overclocking anyways, I will get better PPD with 2 extra core..

probably going to be in the december/January time frame..
 
I've seen good results (both personally and online) with the entire asus p9 series. I have the basic P9X79 and I've put 2 different ES octo's through it with no problems. Cooling is a Scythe Mugen II, I've yet to see above 50C.
 
As far as I see, the compatibility problem of non-retail E5 chips is highly dependent on the stepping (and even QDF code).
In general, the C0 and C1 stepping E5 chips would work fine with nearly all mobo, and the B0 stepping is also not bad. However, seems that the B1 stepping E5 chips would like to encounter compatibility issues with many mobo, especially for the dual-socket mobo.
 
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in a 1p setup, should one get a spicy chip 3.2 8core or overclock the shit out of a 6core unlocked chip?

ppd wise folding 24/7 wich is the best
 
You would get more PPD from the 6C chip if it had been OC'ed to a very high frequency,
but it would also draw more power than the E5 chip when their PPD are the same.
If you'd like to fold 24/7, I think E5 8C might be a better choice.
 
Folding 24/7, with a 3.2ghz octo vs a hex core, the hex would have to be stable at ~4.3ghz to earn comparable ppd. If you're confident in your overclocking ability and your cooling, that's probably reasonable, but I haven't followed the sb-e overclocking scene at all, so I don't know. Octo will, as noted, probably draw less power and generate less heat, so cheaper in terms of long term costs if not necessarily start-up cost.
 
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