Question 1

Does the Intel Xeon E3-1245V3 come with a heatsink and fan?

Accepted Answer

Yes it does. The stock, somewhat small, heatsink and fan.

Question 2

Question about cooling a Xeon E3-1245V3

I am putting this on a ASUS MAXIMUS VI IMPACT LGA 1150 Intel Z87 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Mini ITX Intel Motherboard inside a Thermaltake VM700A1W2N Black SECC / AL Computer Case.

There are 2 fans on the back of the case. My question is would a heat sink be enough for this processor or do I need to get a CPU fan?

Thanks, Mike Price

Accepted Answer

While it's not obvious from the description, a heatsink with attached fan is included in the box.  I couldn't say whether it will fit in your case, but I would expect so.  It's not particularly large.  (The description is so confusing I wound up buying a third-party heatsink unnecessarily.)

Question 3

is this processor SLAT enabled? i would like to use this with hyper-v.

Accepted Answer

SLAT (Second Level Address Translation) is a feature of the CPU. It is called “Rapid Virtualization Indexing (RVI)”, and has been called Extended Page Tables (EPT) by Intel and Nested Page Tables (NPT) by AMD. You can use Wikipedia to look up Intel Nehalem and AMD NPT. (Taken verbatim from microsoft site)

This cpu supports EPT (Extended Page Tables or as microsoft refers to it SLAT).

EPT was introduced with the intel nahalem series of cpus, so all cpus (in comparable product lines) have supported it since.

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