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Re:A 10 year old Xeon is all you need (for 26B-A4B MTP Draft... by _zoltan_ on Monday June 01, 2026 @07:44AM (#48355568)
right, and they talk about "v4" which is DDR4.
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Re:A 10 year old Xeon is all you need (for 26B-A4B MTP Draft... by lightedman on Monday June 01, 2026 @05:18PM (#48362782)
There were several V4 Xeon models that supported DDR3 AND DDR4 simultaneously. If you had a motherboard with an X79 chipset it would (sometimes) work properly.
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Re:A 10 year old Xeon is all you need (for 26B-A4B MTP Draft... by _zoltan_ on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @08:42AM (#48369497)
I am not aware of any commercial vendor shipping v3/v4 boards with DDR3. I have a couple hundred Supermicro systems that are stuck on v2 CPUs with DDR3...
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Re:A 10 year old Xeon is all you need (for 26B-A4B MTP Draft... by lightedman on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @11:16AM (#48371372)
Get a 2696 v4 or 2686 v4 and a X79 motherboard and you should be able to use DDR3.
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