Picked up an E7 8880-V3, looking for single socket board

[tedvitale.info]

So, I picked up a Xeon E7 8880-V3 18core CPU (refurbished) for really cheap. I do a lot of 3D work so I figured, because of the price, it was worth the buy to have 36 threads ready to go.

Now I can do one of two things, flip the card on eBay and make a few bucks OR what I would prefer to do is build a render node around the CPU. Problem is, I can’t seem to find a single socket motherboard for this particular cpu. Do they exist outside the sever space? If not, do they exist at all in a single socket format? Everything I’ve read says it’s LGA2011, but that doesn’t necessarily mean any LGA2011 socket will work (right?).

This is obviously an oddball system, and not one that would normally be practical, but I got the cpu so cheap I figured it would be worth a shot. And I might learn something in the process.

Thanks for any direction!

 

[Lutfij]

Per my search I'm coming up with 4 sockets. How much did you end up paying for the processor?

 

[tedvitale.info]

Per my search I'm coming up with 4 sockets. How much did you end up paying for the processor?

I Came across it by accident on Newegg. I haven’t gotten it yet and I don’t know if it’s fully legitimate, but it was 20$ with shipping and should be here tomorrow...

I figured even if it turns out to be junk, it was worth 20$ on the off chance it got mis-marked for some reason.

 

[bicycle_repair_man]

That was a $6,000 CPU when it was released back in 2015, so there's something definitely wrong with the price you paid.

As far as consumer motherboards go, the top-end X99 chipset only goes as far as the Xeon E5. Anything beyond that and you're looking at a very expensive server motherboard.

 

[tedvitale.info]

That was a $6,000 CPU when it was released back in 2015, so there's something definitely wrong with the price you paid.

As far as consumer motherboards go, the top-end X99 chipset only goes as far as the Xeon E5. Anything beyond that and you're looking at a very expensive server motherboard.

 

[tedvitale.info]

Ha! There is absolutely something wrong with the price! I saw it and knew what it was. I figured it was a worthwhile 20$ gamble. If I get it and it’s the CPU, awesome! If I get it and it’s a picture of a CPU, then oh well, it was worth it just to see, buyer beware and all that.

That said I didn’t think there was a single socket cpu, but I figured I would ask and see if anybody smarter than myself might know of something.