BirdDad said:can you run 2011-v3 Xeons in a desktop motherboard which is also 2011-v3?
Yes, if the Board's BIOS supports it.
Example of X99 board that supports E5 Xeons:
http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/X99 Extreme4/?cat=CPU
Would a regular liquid cooler for 2011 work on a Xeon?
And would these 14 core Xeons I've been seeing work on an ASRock Fatal1ty X99X Killer?
Would a regular liquid cooler for 2011 work on a Xeon?
And would these 14 core Xeons I've been seeing work on an ASRock Fatal1ty X99X Killer?
Does Windows 8.1 pro support an eighteen core Xeon?
yes that is shwing, party on.
Would I have to have ECC memory to use the Xeons on my ASrock or did I not read carefully enough?
You're going to pay at least $1500 even for early engineering samples. The 14 cores are a better deal and 2 will still give you 56 threads. Those are mostly in the 500-600 range. The motherboards are expensive if you buy new. I think I paid around $400 for my X10DALI could use some extra muscle in vidcoder, I bet that 18 cores would encode faster than real time. h.264+265
I believe ECC is supported with a xenon but not required