CPU'S For ASUS Z9PE-D8-WS

[auen1]

Hi everyone, my first post on the forum. I am bit of a novice when it come to building computers,, so any advice is welcome!

I want to build a CAD workstation. I have my eye on the new Asus Z9PE, (2011 socket). It looks to be a nice board. I am trying to find compatible CPU's. Two 4 core processors would be fine, I think. Would the Xeon E5-2643 work for me?
Thanks!

you have to take into consideration that a dual socket motherboard requires CPUs that can communicate with another CPU. Hence, only Intel Xeon’s based off the latest Sandy Bridge-EP architecture will run in these boards if a dual CPU configuration is used. source

 

[LGV]

Looks to me yes, but did you consider the Xeon E5-2640 price looks same, 6 core and more cache

 

[sentient04]

CPUs for Z9pe-D8-WS

Go to Asus.com, United States (if that is where you are located) type in Z9PE-D8-WS then go to CPU support. It will list all approved CPUs. I just finished building one of these myself.

 

[auen1]

Thanks guys,

I went the Asus CPU support list page.
Looks like only Xeon EP 6-8 core processors will work with this MB. Which is OK with me.
The real reason I was looking at the 4 core was the higher frequency (3.3 GHz) for the same price as the 6 core EX-2640 (2.5 GHz).

Is the frequency something to be concerned with, regarding a workstation, (and maybe a little gaming on the side)?

Other notes.
I have not figured how much/which RAM to get.
I was considering the Radeon HD 7990 GPU.
I would like this to be a 4-6U rackmount build.
I have not figured out anything else.

Thanks again for all the help!

 

[xBruce88x]

multi threaded apps will love the extra cores (2x6 vs 2x4), and 2.5ghz should be enough for decent gaming, that and if i found the right cpu... the 6 core your looking at can do turbo boost up to 3ghz so that should be fine for games that don't use as many cores