- Dec 21, 2015
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Finally getting around to outfitting my z840. I got it used but it looks new with the plastic film still on both sides of the case. It came with 2 E5-2620 V3's and 32 8x8 Gb ECC PC2133. It has an 1125w PS with 3 6 pin PCIe power connectors. I don't know exactly what I want to do with it but I was thinking about doing one of those distributive projects. I was thinking about using Linux. I have read that Linux handles dual CPU's better than Windows, surprise. Not sure if I should add ram. It has 16 ram slots. Big question is what to upgrade the CPU's to? Any reason to use a Haswell over a Broadwell? I was thinking an E5-2690 v4 or E5-2697A v4.