Question 1

Any suggestions for a good low profile Heatsink for a 2U case?

Accepted Answer

You could look at the Dynatron R25.

One really critical thing to keep in mind is that depending on the motherboard, the socket is either 'narrow' or 'square'.  My motherboard had one of the square sockets so I used a Dynatron R17 which is a taller heatsink.  If you have a narrow socket you could use the Dynatron R25 for a low profile case.  Just find out what socket type you have and make sure whatever heatsink you look at fits that type.

Question 2

so do these chips have turbo boost or no? on the intel site it shows that it does but here on new egg it just says they are clocked at 2.6ghz.

Accepted Answer

Always go by what Intel ARK tells you.  I bought 2 of these from newegg for my latest server.  The exact model number I got is: BX80635E52630V2
According to the ARK they do indeed have turbo boost.

According to ARK they do have turbo boost.  In addition, newegg specs says they can handle RAM up to 1866.  They can't (I've tried).  The ARK clearly states they can't, so I'd stick with what ever the ARK says.

Question 3

can these be overclocked?

Accepted Answer

Every CPU can be overclocked but should you do it with these? Depends on your setup. If you are looking for a server environment I would not. I have two of these in our server running Xenserver with the cores split between 12 VMs and I still haven't maxed them out. If you are looking for simple PC overclocking go for a new Haswell 4770K. So much fun...

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