



MoussengOkay, I'll take your word for it that a $600+ Xeon can be better value in certain scenarios than an i7. We eventually tracked down four 2 GB modules based on Micron ICs, but not before exhausting four or five other kits from Kingston, G.Skill, and Crucial. So, the 100 GB+ of registered modules we have on-hand don’t work.Ĭonstrained to desktop-oriented kits, it quickly became clear that you want to pay close attention to Intel’s supported memory list prior to picking the pieces for a new server or workstation. Like the desktop Core processors, these E3s support unbuffered modules-only. The trickiest part of setting up our Xeon E3-1280 v2 and Intel S1200BTL motherboard was finding a memory kit that’d work. And it even adds Smart Response Technology to the company’s business portfolio, facilitating SSD-based caching for faster boot-up and application launching. It has the audio and I/O functionality you’d expect to use on a desktop, but not a server. It supports the Ivy Bridge architecture’s three display outputs on boards equipped with the right connectors. Like C206 before it, C216 is intended as a workstation-oriented chipset.
