Should I get Xeon E5-2680 v4 or E5-2697 v3 ? - eviltoast

I am looking to upgrade the cpu’s on my Dell precision T7810. Both of them prices same in Aliexpress. $16. Budget max $20usd per cpu.

I am leaning towards 2680v4 due to less power TDP of 120W vs 145W. Would like to know the opinion from the community. I will be mostly using this machine as proxmox VM and TruNAS with 2x 6TB drives.

I am also a bit confused if my DDR4 2133 memory will work with this v4 cpu since it says 2400mhz for this cpu. Can it work with 2133mhz memory?

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    1 year ago

    I know you didn’t mention vSphere, but it may possibly be of relevance at some point that ESXi 8 does not support the v3 CPUs.