can i use i7 insteed of xeon

[ptemp]

n I use i7-5930K 3.50GHz (Haswell-E) Socket LGA2011-V3 Processor in duel processor ASUS Z10PE D8 WS mother board instead of the xeon e5-2600 range and will every thing work the way it should ive looked at the xeon range and they have very low clock speeds and very high prices that are way out of my price range so I was looking for cheaper alternatives

[AJana1]

Hello technooby,

This answer might be negative! Please compare http://ark.intel.com/products/82931/Intel-Core-i7-5930K-Processor-15M-Cache-up-to-3_70-GHz?q=%20i7-5930K i7-5930K with http://ark.intel.com/products/83349/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2603-v3-15M-Cache-1_60-GHz?q=Xeon%20E5-2603%20v3 e5-2603 v3 for details. According to http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Z10PED8_WS/specifications/ ASUSTek website, this mobo is designed for Intel® Socket 2011-3 for Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v3 product family. But when old those days, LGA 771 based XEON processors could also be adapted to work on desktop class-level LGA775 mobo. So I suggest you inquire the support information from ASUSTek.

Best Regards,

Aaron Janagewen

[Allan_J_Intel1]

Great information Janagewen.

Allan.

[KTran10]

if you use i7-5930K, you can use one CPU because QPI is not enable on this processor

[KTran10]

I7-5930K or Xeon E5-2600 V3 Xeon E5-1600 V3 are pins compatible. I7-5930K and Xeon E5-1600 V3 are single socket CPU which QPI circuit being turned off.

If you use 2 I7-5930K on that ASUS board, BIOS can only detect Socket 0, where it connect to PCH --> BIOS..

If you use one I7-5930K on socket 0 then it should work.

For your reference here is the motherboard support I7 and E5-2600 V3, E5-1600 V3

http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X10SRA.cfm Supermicro | Products | Motherboards | Xeon® Boards | X10SRA