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 dark-star on Monday June 01, 2026 @08:09AM (#48355758)

Something doesn't add up here. As someone who has only recently built a home-server from an E5-26xx v2 on DDR3 RAM (because I have a sh*tload of 32g DDR3 DIMMs), I can confidently say that the newer cores (E5-26xx v3 and v4) only run on DDR4 memory...

So either you have a v2 instead of a v4 (and run on DDR3 memory), or you have a v4 but with DDR4 memory (not DDR3)

Everything else doesn't work

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Re:A 10 year old Xeon is all you need (for 26B-A4B MTP Draft... by TacticalCoder on Monday June 01, 2026 @08:15AM (#48355813)

> So either you have a v2 instead of a v4 (and run on DDR3 memory), or you have a v4 but with DDR4 memory (not DDR3)

Yup that's odd... I've got a Xeon 2680 v4 (14 cores) (amazing bargain of a little beast btw) and it's indeed on DDR4 and I saw all Xeons v4 as supporting DDR4 only.

Full spec (brand/model/mobo type) would have been nice: mine's an HP Z440 workstation repurposed as a server (which I only turn on when I'm working and which I religiously turn off before going to bed).

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Re:A 10 year old Xeon is all you need (for 26B-A4B MTP Draft... by justinclift on Monday June 01, 2026 @08:32AM (#48355982)

Yeah, the Intel reference page only lists DDR4, not DDR3:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/92986/i...

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Re:A 10 year old Xeon is all you need (for 26B-A4B MTP Draft... by happycube on Monday June 01, 2026 @08:44AM (#48356098)

It looks like Supermicro had some DDR3 Xeon v3/v4 boards, and the first thing that came to mind was a Shenzen workstation/gaming board using recycled parts... haven't searched on that but it's bound to exist.

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Re:A 10 year old Xeon is all you need (for 26B-A4B MTP Draft... by mwpmaybe on Monday June 01, 2026 @09:27AM (#48356583)

There are some OEM-only v3/v4 parts with dual memory controllers (because of a RAM supply crunch at the time, funnily enough), but the E5-2620 v4 is not one of them. The classic example is the very popular 12-core E5-2678 v3.

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Re:A 10 year old Xeon is all you need (for 26B-A4B MTP Draft... by robeastham on Monday June 01, 2026 @10:28AM (#48357313)

This is not true. A few well known brands made both DDR3 and DDR4 servers that support v3 & v4 chips. Ask me how I know :-)

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Re:A 10 year old Xeon is all you need (for 26B-A4B MTP Draft... by smartbit on Monday June 01, 2026 @11:15AM (#48357957)

enlighten us

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Re:A 10 year old Xeon is all you need (for 26B-A4B MTP Draft... by bobmcnamara on Monday June 01, 2026 @06:26PM (#48363450)

https://www.aliexpress.com/s/wiki-ssr/article/2696-v4-ddr3

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Re:A 10 year old Xeon is all you need (for 26B-A4B MTP Draft... by dark-star on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @09:22AM (#48369963)

crazy, I really did not know that. Do you happen to know if such boards also exist that take registered DDR3 RAM? None of them explicitly call out DDR3-R RAM so I assume they only take consumer RAM?

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