Availability of Intel Xeon E5-1650

[dima777]

Hello,
I wonder if there are some happy owners of E5-1650 over here who can comment on how hard it was for them to get hold of this marvellous processor. I cannot seem to find it being offered in any store on the internet...are they no longer produced or in very limited suppy?
Thanks!

 

[Saffron]

Newegg has the E5-1660. I don't know what the difference between the 1650 and 1660 are, but there it is.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819117273

 

[ShintaiDK]

The 1650 is OEM only.

 

[crazymonkeyzero]

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What ShintaiDK said. It's an oem, so Intel will only sell it to manufacturers such as dell and hp, which put it in their workstations for resale. So in other words, you can't buy the chip by itself....at least not easily.

 

[Saffron]

Really? I've purchased plenty of OEM parts off newegg, no questions asked and sure as hell don't own a manufacturer or an business of the sort.

 

[tynopik]

http://www.wiredzone.com/Intel-CM80...eon-E5-1650-6-Core-Socket-2011~32027899~0.htm

i ordered an e5-1620 (also OEM only) from them and it arrived pretty quickly. They tore off a segment of the plastic tray, sandwiched it between some cardboard, used rubber bands to hold it together and then completely covered it in tamper-resistant stickers. Worked just fine.

 

[crazymonkeyzero]

Really? I've purchased plenty of OEM parts off newegg, no questions asked and sure as hell don't own a manufacturer or an business of the sort.

I guess I used the wrong term by saying "oem", which is a more general term However, intel does release certain chips only for resellers such as dell/hp an example is the Intel Xeon E5 2643. It's a quad core lga 2011 that runs at 3.3ghz. If you google it, you will see it being gold by hp (via amazon), and in their workstations, but no regular retailers and price is insane. The few sellers (definitely not big retailers like newegg) which do have them instock probably bough them from dell/hp in small quantities, but in general, pretty tough to find, especially at reasonable prices.

 

[tynopik]

I guess I used the wrong term by saying "oem", which is a more general term However, intel does release certain chips only for resellers such as dell/hp an example is the Intel Xeon E5 2643. It's a quad core lga 2011 that runs at 3.3ghz. If you google it, you will see it being gold by hp (via amazon), and in their workstations, but no regular retailers and price is insane. The few sellers (definitely not big retailers like newegg) which do have them instock probably bough them from dell/hp in small quantities, but in general, pretty tough to find, especially at reasonable prices.

Again, I would suggest WiredZone ($891 shipped, Intel's recommended tray price: $885.00)

 

[dima777]

I have foudn the folloiwng workstation that features the Xeon E5-1650 3.2 GHz!!!!:

HP Workstation Z420 - Xeon E5-1650 3.2 GHz

take a look here - http://www.amazon.com/HP-Workstation...d_sim_sbs_pc_6

I wonder if anyone has this PC to comment on how it functions?

 

[tynopik]

I wonder if anyone has this PC to comment on how it functions?

quite similar to an i7-3930K I imagine

but why buy that to begin with, cheaper to build your own

 

[dima777]

yes cheaper but probably the self-built might not be as solid as the one created by a manufacturer.....given teh fact that I have no personal experience of building custom pcs - only can buy parts at different places and have some tech guy to assemble it for me......