What Motherboards Support the New E3 Xeon V5 CPUs?

turkey3_scratch · Jan 2, 2016

I noticed on pcpartpicker that even though the new Skylake Xeon processors, such as the Xeon E3 1230 V5 use the LGA 1151 socket, it seems H110, H170, and Z170 boards are incompatible. What then, is compatible? I always thought only the Xeon E5s required special boards.

RCFProd · Jan 2, 2016

ASRock announced two motherboards that support this processor:

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/asrock-e3v5-xeon-v5-motherboards,30824.html

Suztera · Jan 2, 2016

C232 and C236 motherboards.

turkey3_scratch · Jan 2, 2016

Too bad they're not compatible with regular consumer boards. The Xeons are always killer deals against the non-K I7 processors. These Xeons have the exact same specs as their Skylake I7 competitors and cost far less.

Y0GI · Jan 2, 2016

HERE (Link) are several choices at Newegg. Apparently they do not have the Asrock boards yet. SuperMicro offers a plethora of models though.

Yogi

turkey3_scratch · Jan 2, 2016

Supermicro, never heard of them. And all of them are very expensive, too bad. And they look old (not that that matters, but they do).
If you could pair an H110 that would be perfect. Hopefully more C232 boards will be coming out in the under $100 area.

RCFProd · Jan 2, 2016

Usually most if not all Supermicro motherboards have always been expensive.

I don't know which type of market they're intended for. Are they more durable compared to others?

Y0GI · Jan 2, 2016

turkey3_scratch :

I would call $190 expensive but not "very" expensive.

Surprised that you've never heard of SuperMicro. I could be wrong but I think that they do a lot of custom OEM stuff.

Yogi

turkey3_scratch · Jan 2, 2016

I consider $190 expensive for a board (for a consumer). In most builds I design, I'll never usually pick a motherboard over $150. When I was new to this site, I did everything wrong and was recommending $300 Maximus boards out the wazoo, until someone pointed out that it was stupid.

For Z boards, I usually pick one around $140-50, otherwise usually in the $70-90 territory for an H board ATX, or MicroATX I always go with a $50 board. No matter how many power phases high-end motherboards have, or SATA headers, PCIe slots, capacitors in the VRM, it's simply usually better to get a cheaper motherboard since the motherboard has little to do with performance.

I personally would p[ut a $50 mATX board in an ATX case, the money savings are real, but people shun me for that.

Suztera · Jan 2, 2016

SuperMicro isn't really for the "main" consumers. It's more for DIYs enthusiasts or people doing business in setting up servers, nas, data centers etc...
They are enterprise grade products for where quality and reliability for 24/7 matters.

Lakshmi VidyaSagar · Jan 14, 2016

turkey3_scratch :

The below are MBs from MSI
http://www.msi.com/product/motherboard#?chipset=Intel C236&chipset_no=3861

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