Which XEON CPUs are GOOD? Why are they NAMED like that?!

Intel Xeons can be processors that some people either love or know nothing about. I'm here to help with some info and to tell you my favorite Xeons for socket 1366/x58, socket 2011/x79, and socket 2011/x99.
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[malcolmmacdonald]

A Chinese seller on eBay is selling Xeon E5-2687W's for 20 USD. It's the ultimate Sandy Bridge beast: 8 cores and 16 threads, 20MB of L3 cache- clocked at a respectable 3.1GHz base 3.8GHz max turbo. Got a Gigabyte GA-X79-UD3 rev. 1.0 for $85 Canadian. Now that's value. Not that I need any of this because I have an AMD Ryzen PC. Still interesting to tinker with, though.

[BlazeElPadrino]

I'm pretty glad you took the time to bring the topic for discussion again! And I'm grateful because you also gave us some great value choices to consider for each platform. I've been pretty attached to view the Xeon ecosystem as MB+CPU combos for so long that I wasn't aware of the decent value proposition of the CPUs mentioned here. It's certainly true that a Ryzen rig is now the default to-go price/performance platform in developed countries, but as a resident of an emerging economy country I can assess that Xeons can still compete price wise with the AMD offerings under the right circumstances. Thanks a lot for all the insight provided on this channel about Xeon builds! Have an amazing time this New Year's Eve and I wish you the best for this 2022. Best regards.

[louisczar]

You have a good point on the naming 🤣
But great overview, really glad to see someone still values Xeon CPU’s when it comes to old systems or low to mid range gaming pc’s!

[PinkyTech]

Probably the easiest to understand breakdown I have seen on Xeons. Thanks Chris!

[ivangerginov]

Awesome video
I just got the E3-1241 v3 for $37. A nice and noticeable upgrade from my i3-4170. Cinebench r23 went from 2086 multi / 881 single to 4350 multi / 948 single.

I highly recommend these older xeons, they're so cheap now and the performance is still pretty good.

[woods]

Damn that was a lot of information, great video

[INSIGHT]

I bought a Xeon bundle from Ali express for 120$ back in 2021.

It came with Chinese X99, E5-2640 V3, 16 GB of DDR4 2666MHz.

With the help of Tech yes city, I unlocked the turbo to 3.4 GHz from 2.8 max.

[Festizzio]

You're always talking about Xeons in your previous budget build videos, it's great to make some sense of the crazy names. Keep up the awesome work bud!

[bradscott]

A year later, this is still good info. FWIW I have been running an HP Z420 with an e5-2680v2 before recently upgrading to an E5-2667 v2, which netted me about a 20% performance improvement according to geekbench 6. However, I also on a lark bought a Ryzen based Beelink SER5 5800H which, according to geekbench, is like 3x faster than my current setup. Great improvement, right? Well, when running the actual stuff I do (like handbrake) the beelinkk was really only about 10% faster than my decade old xeon rig: when running handbrake transcoding a 4K HDR video to 4K smpte601 with h264 encoding, the difference was about 8fps for the beelink compared to 7fps for my xeon setup. And of course, the beelink has very limited expansion capability, so I sold it (for a profit, as I bought the beelink on sale) and am now in the process of building myself ANOTHER z420 workstation, this time with added usb3 ports (fifty bucks for another 6 ports) and a nice rack of drives powering a zfs raid pool. Its amazing what a bargain these old machines are still today. I'm not a gamer, but hoping for more talks like this one I've subscribed. Best wishes.

[dave-]

Talking about old xeons, I picked up an old sever for running virtual machines.
HP DL380 Gen8 2 x E5-2697v2 total 24Cores/48 Threads 384GB-RAM.
Haven’t tried playing games on it but tempted to try now just to see what it does.

[YasirKhan-wesk]

i think after a long while have i seen a great video and a great guy keep up the good work
your channel will pick up dont worry
your content is amazing and the later part of the video was exceptional !

[michaelthompson]

Great video CG 🥰🥳 sorry hear numbers aren’t doing great but like Techtubers, that’s been 2021. Hopefully this New Year being 2022 sees a return of products and tech and in turn, viewers to to your channel. Love the content you do 🥳🎉🥰👍. I’m always watching your episodes and giving a 👍 as well. Bryan at Tech Yes City I think pioneered the Xeon rerelease for many people as they still allow a lot of manual tweaking to gain massive overclocks and tinkerers like me love ‘em 🥰❤ and that’s not something that modern day CPUs can say!

[rathstar]

Really useful info particularly the sources of info.

Would love to see some comparison of the budget 4 core 8 thread xeons against the i3-10105f, and the 8 core xeons against the ryzen 1700.

[ahah]

Ive built one for the fun of it...with xeon 2696 v3 18-core cpu ( that one supports both ddr4/drr3) and 8 sticks of 32gb 1866 server ddr3 ram for 256gb total...Its not very powerful today but its unusual and was fun to build! Ddr3 server ram is almost free compared to ddr4 so thats why i went with ddr3 motherboard version (both are avaliable on da bay)

[morbid]

Very very helpful in getting me to know my CPU better. I have an Intel Xeon E5-2697 v3

[bluecollarwatches]

These Xeon processors are used in other areas of the world since the import fees for pc parts are astronomical depending on where you live, the x99 community is awesome.

[IngvarrKahn]

1:50 I am using broadwell. Xeon E3-1285l v4

[biggieb]

Keep it up you'll get the views you deserve

[MrRyudragon]

good ole xeons i wish they kept making them for newer consumer platforms but it is wat it is. Dont forget to sub, leave a like, comment and ring that bell also check out chris's video description on where to find him to talk tech ask about pc problems and anything in between hope to see u around

[uco]

I use xeon cpu since 2011. My first xeon was E5472, second was W3565, third was E5-2690. Now i use xeon W-2195. Xeon is the beast. Xeon, xeon and xeon only.