A 10 year old Xeon is all you need (for 26B-A4B MTP Drafters without GPU)

Re:A 10 year old Xeon is all you need (for 26B-A4B MTP Draft... by asimovDev on Monday June 01, 2026 @04:31AM (#48354089)

I have an ancient DDR3 Xeon that doesn't support any AVX (dual x5690 and 96GB 1333 MHz RAM). You reckon it would even build / run at all?

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Re:A 10 year old Xeon is all you need (for 26B-A4B MTP Draft... by qwertox on Monday June 01, 2026 @04:49AM (#48354204)

CPU (2012)

  Model name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1265L V2 @ 2.50GHz

Mainboard

  Product Name: P8Z77 WS

GPU

  05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation AD106 [GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB] (rev a1)
  05:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation AD106M High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)

Memory: 32GB

This works.

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Re:A 10 year old Xeon is all you need (for 26B-A4B MTP Draft... by cafkafk on Monday June 01, 2026 @04:34AM (#48354104)

Loading will take some minutes, but at 96 you can squeeze the model in and have some headroom around like ~10 GB, although depending on the Xeon, you may have to downgrade to E4B instead. Should still work thou.

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Re:A 10 year old Xeon is all you need (for 26B-A4B MTP Draft... by tgtweak on Monday June 01, 2026 @04:34AM (#48354103)

It may work - depending on your ram speeds it might not even be that much slower.

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Re:A 10 year old Xeon is all you need (for 26B-A4B MTP Draft... by burnt-resistor on Monday June 01, 2026 @05:36AM (#48354579)

I run Win 11 Enterprise on an el cheapo spare parts Xeon E3-1275 V2 + 32 GiB DDR3-2133 + Gigabyte GA-B75M-D3H rev. 1.2 (TPM support)

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