Good but inexpensive Motherboard?

[20GT]

What's a good motherboard that's upgradeable as far up as the I7 but can also start with a much cheaper processor.

I7 3 GHz · Socket LGA 2011-3 · 25 MB cache memory

 

[beers]

2011-3 is the X99 chipset currently. Probably the cheapest one you'd want to go with is the 6800K.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117649

You can go with socket 1151 and an i3/i5 that would be upgradeable to the 6700k and next iteration if you don't have a huge budget.

 

[Laquer Head]

What's a good motherboard that's upgradeable as far up as the I7 but can also start with a much cheaper processor.

I7 3 GHz · Socket LGA 2011-3 · 25 MB cache memory

Good/Inexpensive and you picked X99 / 2011-3 ?????

 

[20GT]

Good/Inexpensive and you picked X99 / 2011-3 ?????

That's what I want to work up to or another powerful processor. What do you suggest. It's for machine learning and a huge database, visual targeting with large amounts of computations.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01F...eywords=I7&dpPl=1&dpID=51xql2lzYgL&ref=plSrch

 

[Laquer Head]

What kinda budget are you working with, that will be a start of what to recommend.

 

[Laquer Head]

That's what I want to work up to or another powerful processor. What do you suggest. It's for machine learning and a huge database, visual targeting with large amounts of computations.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01F...eywords=I7&dpPl=1&dpID=51xql2lzYgL&ref=plSrch

That CPU is ludicrous.. are you really ever going to spend $2000+ on a CPU?? seriously?

 

[beers]

That CPU is ludicrous.. are you really ever going to spend $2000+ on a CPU?? seriously?

Yeah the 6950X is marketed to idiots really. You can get a dual socket xeon setup for that much and have double the cores/threads.

 

[Laquer Head]

Yeah, the 6950X goes beyond 'enthusiast'.. its just obscene

 

[20GT]

What kinda budget are you working with, that will be a start of what to recommend.

$300 for starters

 

[Intel_man]

Yeah the 6950X is marketed to idiots really. You can get a dual socket xeon setup for that much and have double the cores/threads.

There are certain softwares that the 6950x does perform better than a dual socket xeon counterpart. However, it still doesn't justify the $1700 asking price of the processor. Apart from being overclockable, it lacks ECC Memory support which kinda defeats the purpose of such a chip in the first place.

$300 for starters

$300 just for the motherboard or $300 for the entire system?

 

[20GT]

basically the cheapest upgradeable way to end up with what I need.
what ever the inexpensive of all the parts would be my budget
not concerned with performance at this point in time

 

[Intel_man]

If you're looking at a system that will require a lot of processor cores @ 3ghz, you're going to be looking at a lot of money.

You can look at grabbing a pair of used E5-2670's for $80 each. But the dual socket mobo will run you atleast $320. And that's grabbing old Xeons... You don't even want to know how much the new Xeons run you for anything that is at 10+ cores.