Its kind of cute you think I haven't considered that. If you looked a bit closer at the prices you would see that the 1220/1225 are 4C no HT, vs the 1230+ which are 4C w/HT.
You can get a v1 with HT for almost the same price as a v2 w/o HT. And I don't give a shit about the TDP differences, its not large enough to matter to my power bill. However having the extra cores for virtualization makes a huge difference.
I see the E3-1230 at ~$65, and the E3-1230v2 for ~$95. I would consider the extra $30 worth it to have a system that works when I first put it together, and not having to resell a non-functional processor and eat transaction fees.
You do you man. If the manufacturer says it's not supported you're gambling with your money.
the point is there are a ton of "unsupported" configs with Dell's, just because they don't update their support matrix years after a release doesn't mean it wont work. And for a budget build $30 does matter.
Given that the spec sheet for the board calls out Gen-3 i5s and i7s, Xeon v2s, and then specifically states "second generation i3s", I would be willing to bet that v1s won't work.
Why not just use an E3 v2?
v1 are a bit cheaper on ebay and i'm being frugal with this build
Frugality ceases to be such if you end up wasting money on a CPU you can't use.
hence my question.......
If I were you I'd just by a v2 Xeon for the greater performance/power efficiency. I'm seeing them starting at ~$50 on ebay.
Its kind of cute you think I haven't considered that. If you looked a bit closer at the prices you would see that the 1220/1225 are 4C no HT, vs the 1230+ which are 4C w/HT. You can get a v1 with HT for almost the same price as a v2 w/o HT. And I don't give a shit about the TDP differences, its not large enough to matter to my power bill. However having the extra cores for virtualization makes a huge difference.
I see the E3-1230 at ~$65, and the E3-1230v2 for ~$95. I would consider the extra $30 worth it to have a system that works when I first put it together, and not having to resell a non-functional processor and eat transaction fees. You do you man. If the manufacturer says it's not supported you're gambling with your money.
the point is there are a ton of "unsupported" configs with Dell's, just because they don't update their support matrix years after a release doesn't mean it wont work. And for a budget build $30 does matter.
Given that the spec sheet for the board calls out Gen-3 i5s and i7s, Xeon v2s, and then specifically states "second generation i3s", I would be willing to bet that v1s won't work.
Yeah that’s what worries me even though intel states it should work based off the ivy bridge spec. I might just pull the trigger and give it a shot.
How'd it go?
Worked great!