To find the truth, We do have to afford a look into this !
Here the last member of my collection. I haven't spend 2000$ to buy both but back in 2015. It's a mid point in affordability and cross-line between price and humanly responsible to afford for a little budget. Ultimately it also prove Arduino world of compiling ESP32, SAMD51 and deep Giga version of Arduino was not even possible to humanly get an answer on basic computer equipped from intel i3/i5 recent i7 apparently topped at 800$CA in 2015. I do say even in my hand it does not breath to get a solution out of it. But speaking what make so weird to design x79 chipset to afford running LGA2011 CPU like i7 in trend of 5xxx will be possible if I see on the retail market one available to do so in a low price offer, but settle here as collection clearly prove caret disposition between LGA2011 and LGA2011-3 does not fit as pressing hard to make it work is just "DUMB" trial, and possibly respond for pushing a wrong processor into a board, will produce surprisingly phenomenon see on the internet like spark on the back. No everything is clear and every thing as a sticker like the date of it's exit, a Q.C (Quality Control) pass sticker on the board, the power supply. Where remain the problems of not operating. Once I will put my next acquisition an E5 1620-v3 operating at 3.5Ghz it's still an hot rod for personal purposes. Consummate 140 watts for all the v3 version of the generation 11th for Xeon E5 in V3, 1620, 1630, 1650, 1660 does all spend 140 watts in consumption and might be the big why, my e5 2630v4, e5 2680v4 does not light up, something between processor and the supply refuse to turn on the engine. The Xeon family e5 v4 for modeled number 26xx start apparently at 120 watts and not 140 watts, which trigger a question. Does the board refuse to see it properly or it require a bare drive of the strength of Terra-Byte in 3.5 inch.
Mine buy in 2015 during ends of
Future Shop, bringing the Tera Byte (1TB) at 179$CA, where today some N.V.M.E.. (20
times smaller, really 200 times in weight) and cheaper in consumption might feel invisible in this consummation, being behind an phase booster it power-up and probably consummate the third by not drawn directly power from a plug. So my
Western Digital Blue disk at 1.0 Tb might bring a 500 milli-Ampere disk
might wake out my both X99D3 and a Soho X99P4 which I am not even sure
to know which chipset they are really. Oh yes, x99 is a series starting
with c612 the last one, H87, H81, Q87 and even c61 before having a c612,
so beware of those telling they are shipping randomly a chipset should
be strongly surveyed.
So here my to last member of Xeon.
Sooner or later something will work. Officially not having an good DDR4 board for having a refund for delivery problems, I expect owing an Titanium D4 which are using latest c612 chipset of the x99 series and possibly an Huananzhi CD4, they are valuable since I do have to pay more than 100$ the board to make a reality out of this. In fact some new seller did never touch the price and offering the Ti D4 Plus version was around 394$CA in the last 2 years they had also drowning since Intel announced the end of the support family for lga2011-3 for Xeon 12th generation for E5 v4 in April 2025, so virtually few to spare in Xeon if they are all bad with all those third law to make them work is there one telling you to have to put a pole in the engine and wait a lighting to fall on to push you in time and effort to do it ?
I believe there is a generation around 2010 to 2015 that virtually own the money to buy all this and virtually snatch out their own hair to not having something working. And dare about gamer that bough things for playing and put back in the roll of the blind retail-market of this time because, they finally bought them.
So bet are open
- One E5-1620v3 with nothing.
- One E5-1620v3 with the heavy weighted hard-drive.
- Nightmare is not over you haven't use another video card and you haven't buy an intel i7 lga2011-3.
- Not working at all even with E5-1620v3 and must try with another more sensitive power-suply (equipped with 115/230 voltage switch )