Dell Precision T7910 CPU Upgrade

Cheers, I picked up a bare bones T7910 and decided to go with the dual E5-2697 V4 CPU's for $350 each

These model CPU's support up to 2400MHz memory, so got 128GB (8x16GB) of memory @ 2400MHz

Also grabbed a couple of liquid cooled heatsinks on eBay, for some reason the T7910 case didn't come with a side vented panel so had to get one of these as well to help with the CPU ventilation.

I currently have a T7610 and with higher CPU speeds, memory FSB, SAS3 controller 12Gbps, 

Cost to upgrade around $2000 

The 2697 is much better bang for the buck -  I don't think going for the 2699s were worth it.  I have the same 128 Gb of DDR4 2400.  Not sure that there's even that much improvement between the 2133 and the 2400.  I put in an nvme PCI-E card in with a Samsung Evo 970.  I think that's pretty fast.  I didn't get the Dell quad ultraspeed, although if you wanted you could do that and do a RAID 10  with four nvme SSDs!

How much did you pay for the liquid coolers?  And how in the world did you find a vented panel!  That's some wizardry.  Good job!

Thanks!

I don't do RAID just installed a 400GB SAS SSD drive for my OS and 3 x16TB SAS drives for all my movies and TV Shows I use with Plex on my computer.

I paid $300 for the liquid cooling heatsinks.

Some of the T7910's I have been looking at did have the vented side panel and don't know why the one I got didn't so went to NVY9X Genuine OEM Dell Precision T7910 Tower Vented Black Side Panel | eBay and brought one.

BTW, I'm selling a 2x 2680 CPU T7910 with 128 Gb of memory and two 500Gb SSDs, plus a 1Tb HDD, and a GTX 780 Ti graphics card. It works pretty well!  On ebay - do a search.

I'd like to upgrade my (2015) T7910 with its twin E5-2603 v3  to an E5-2680 v4.

Do you think that would need the liquid cooled heat sinks and the vented side panel?

And do you think this would be a good move?

Thanks

Can you safely upgrade a Dell T7910 from a dual E5-2690 v3 to E5-2699 v4?

Thanks

Yes it will, just make sure you have updated the BIOS to A34 before you install them

You can use the same memory, there is no point moving to 2400 MHz

I would look at the E5-2697 v4 CPU way cheaper than the E5-2699 v4 and not much difference in performance either.

For this conversion which RAM is suggested. I have currently 128Gb of DDR4 2133 Mz. Do I need to upgrade to DDR4 2400 Mz?

Thanks!!! 

@ MagoDeBoz2  En Aliexpres estan los E5 2697 v4 por 65€ y los E5 2699 v4, por 170€. No sé cual es la mejor opción, pero me inclino por los E5 2697 v4 por ahora, aunque todavía no me decido. Tal vez espere unos meses a que el precio de los E5 2699 v4 baje