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Please help me with this dilimma between LGA 2011 and LGA 1150

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April 8, 2014 4:49:00 PM

In my previous post, I mistakenly thought what i needed was two 32 bit PCI slots. But now I realize it is actually two 64 bit PCI or PCI-X 66 slots. From what I can find on the Internet, my choice of motherboard is down to these two:

LGA 2011:
MOBO INFO: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C60...
Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

LGA 1150:
MOBO INFO: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C22...
SuperBiiz: http://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php?p=MB-X10SLX&c=fr&pi...

First of all, I am a layman. As a layman, I think I will get much higher performance/price value from a i7-4770 than a Xeon E5-2640, so the 1150 is obviously the one I should go with. But it doesn't have a x16 PCI-E slot, which (correct me if I am wrong) means the only graphic card I have will be the Integrated Aspeed AST2400 Graphics, which I have never heard of.

On the other hand, the Xeon CPUs are simply too expensive for desktop applications, but the motherboard does give a x16 PCI-E slot.

Anyone knows how good/bad the Integrated Aspeed AST2400 is? Any PCI-E x8 graphic card to recommend? Do you guys know any other motherboards that also have 2 PCI-X/64 bit PCI?

Many thanks!

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April 8, 2014 5:05:35 PM

You wouldn't want to run a gpu on a x8 PCI-e, it would be quite slow (though I believe you could run sli with 2 gpu, each on the x8 PCIe). I could not find any other options for your motherboards but on the 2011 socket you could grab one of these:

CPU: Intel Core i7-4820K 3.7GHz Quad-Core Processor ($319.97 @ TigerDirect)
Total: $319.97
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April 8, 2014 5:13:47 PM

elighzn said:
In my previous post, I mistakenly thought what i needed was two 32 bit PCI slots. But now I realize it is actually two 64 bit PCI or PCI-X 66 slots. From what I can find on the Internet, my choice of motherboard is down to these two:

LGA 2011:
MOBO INFO: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C60...
Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

LGA 1150:
MOBO INFO: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C22...
SuperBiiz: http://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php?p=MB-X10SLX&c=fr&pi...

First of all, I am a layman. As a layman, I think I will get much higher performance/price value from a i7-4770 than a Xeon E5-2640, so the 1150 is obviously the one I should go with. But it doesn't have a x16 PCI-E slot, which (correct me if I am wrong) means the only graphic card I have will be the Integrated Aspeed AST2400 Graphics, which I have never heard of.

On the other hand, the Xeon CPUs are simply too expensive for desktop applications, but the motherboard does give a x16 PCI-E slot.

Anyone knows how good/bad the Integrated Aspeed AST2400 is? Any PCI-E x8 graphic card to recommend? Do you guys know any other motherboards that also have 2 PCI-X/64 bit PCI?

Many thanks!


Here is a Motherboard : http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-motherboard-z87pro It would be a bit more helpful if we knew what apps you would be running.
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April 8, 2014 5:14:15 PM

1x PCI-E 3.0 x8 will not harm GPU performance, in fact anyone running dual GPUs on Z77 or Z87 boards will be running two slots at PCI-E 3.0 x8. I did some tests with a GTX 680 and performance didn't start to drop until the slot was down to PCIe2.0 x4, where it dropped about 10%
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April 8, 2014 5:18:47 PM

leeb2013 said:
1x PCI-E 3.0 x8 will not harm GPU performance, in fact anyone running dual GPUs on Z77 or Z87 boards will be running two slots at PCI-E 3.0 x8. I did some tests with a GTX 680 and performance didn't start to drop until the slot was down to PCIe2.0 x4, where it dropped about 10%


Huh, that's pretty good to know. I knew that dual gpus ran at x8 but for some reason figured you would get some sort of performance drop with a single gpu running at x8. Learned something new today :) 
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April 9, 2014 4:48:24 AM

coastie65 said:

Here is a Motherboard : http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-motherboard-z87pro It would be a bit more helpful if we knew what apps you would be running.
That motherboard has no PCI-X slots.
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April 9, 2014 1:00:42 PM

numanator said:
You wouldn't want to run a gpu on a x8 PCI-e, it would be quite slow (though I believe you could run sli with 2 gpu, each on the x8 PCIe). I could not find any other options for your motherboards but on the 2011 socket you could grab one of these:

CPU: Intel Core i7-4820K 3.7GHz Quad-Core Processor ($319.97 @ TigerDirect)
Total: $319.97


oh, I didn't realize I could run i7 on 2011 socket. Thanks!
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April 9, 2014 1:03:05 PM

leeb2013 said:
1x PCI-E 3.0 x8 will not harm GPU performance, in fact anyone running dual GPUs on Z77 or Z87 boards will be running two slots at PCI-E 3.0 x8. I did some tests with a GTX 680 and performance didn't start to drop until the slot was down to PCIe2.0 x4, where it dropped about 10%


I planed to get a entry-level Quadro like this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

But obviously this one won't be fit in the x8 slot. The PC will not be gaming. Only image processing probably. Any ideas?
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April 9, 2014 1:25:20 PM

elighzn said:
numanator said:
You wouldn't want to run a gpu on a x8 PCI-e, it would be quite slow (though I believe you could run sli with 2 gpu, each on the x8 PCIe). I could not find any other options for your motherboards but on the 2011 socket you could grab one of these:

CPU: Intel Core i7-4820K 3.7GHz Quad-Core Processor ($319.97 @ TigerDirect)
Total: $319.97


oh, I didn't realize I could run i7 on 2011 socket. Thanks!


A good way to see what some of the available options are is to go to pcpartpicker.com and look through the cpus, filtered by socket type. There are quite a few options for the 2011 slot with both xeon and i7s
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April 9, 2014 1:26:15 PM

Could you consider replacing the PCI-X controllers?
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April 9, 2014 1:47:43 PM

numanator said:
You wouldn't want to run a gpu on a x8 PCI-e, it would be quite slow (though I believe you could run sli with 2 gpu, each on the x8 PCIe). I could not find any other options for your motherboards but on the 2011 socket you could grab one of these:

CPU: Intel Core i7-4820K 3.7GHz Quad-Core Processor ($319.97 @ TigerDirect)
Total: $319.97


numanator said:
elighzn said:
numanator said:
You wouldn't want to run a gpu on a x8 PCI-e, it would be quite slow (though I believe you could run sli with 2 gpu, each on the x8 PCIe). I could not find any other options for your motherboards but on the 2011 socket you could grab one of these:

CPU: Intel Core i7-4820K 3.7GHz Quad-Core Processor ($319.97 @ TigerDirect)
Total: $319.97


oh, I didn't realize I could run i7 on 2011 socket. Thanks!


A good way to see what some of the available options are is to go to pcpartpicker.com and look through the cpus, filtered by socket type. There are quite a few options for the 2011 slot with both xeon and i7s


Yep. I just did what you said on newegg and it turns out the i7 3820 seems a fit, considering my original plan was i4770.

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April 9, 2014 1:49:43 PM

GhislainG said:
Could you consider replacing the PCI-X controllers?


I can't...
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April 9, 2014 2:00:02 PM

I would get a better quality psu, EVGA is ok but I trust seasonic or XFX

XFX 550w: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

other than that, it looks good.
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