Want to upgrade to Xeon E3-1230 V2 , Any suggestion?

[jack-cpu]

My computer is E6700 @ 3.2 Ghz now. I want to upgrade to Xeon E3-1230 V2 . The main board i choose is Asus P8Z77-V LX . Memory is DDR3 1600.
What i concern is stability of this cpu. This is server cpu. Is it work fine on personal computer?



Processor Number

E3-1230V2




# of Cores

4




# of Threads

8




Clock Speed

3.3 GHz




Max Turbo Frequency

3.7 GHz




Intel® Smart Cache

8 MB




Bus/Core Ratio

33




DMI

5 GT/s




Instruction Set

64-bit




Instruction Set Extensions

AVX, SSE4.1,SSE4.2




Embedded Options Available



No




Lithography

22 nm




Max TDP

69 W




Recommended Customer Price

TRAY: $215.00
BOX : $230.00

[gg1978]

should work.. might not get ECC memory support if the motherboard doesn't have the traces to the RAM to support it. But it's LGA 1155 and should have BIOS support as well.

[mavroxur]

With the latest BIOS, it should work. You won't be able to use ECC memory though with that board.