Does an ECC compatible I3 exist that can go very fast? Need stupid fast 1 thread ECC

[piasabird]

Well Anand has a new Haswell Architecture Article on the front Page. One article I read says a release somewhere around May/june, however, last time they released the i-5first and then i-3. However, I read another article claiming that Intel is going to put the Haswell Architecture into a few Ivy Bridge Processors.

"With Haswell, Intel promised to deliver SKUs as low as 10W. That's not quite low enough to end up in an iPad, but it's clear where Intel is headed. In a brief statement at the end of last year, Intel announced that it would bring a small amount of 10W Ivy Bridge CPUs to market in advance of the Haswell launch."

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6655/...-rating-to-get-there-yseries-skus-demystified

Centerton? Atom for Servers?
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6509/intel-launches-centerton-atom-s1200-family-first-atom-for-servers

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6355/intels-haswell-architecture

 

[crashtech]

How about this: Xeon 5080
3.73 GHz , 2 cores, 4 threads/core, 4mb cache
google shopping link ($150 -- $400)

Alternatively: Xeon X5687
3.6 GHz, 4 cores 8 threads/core, 12mb cache
...um, NVM... the price on that one is nuts (~$1300)

better than the X5687 would be the E5 1620:
3.6 GHz, 4 cores / 8 threads / 10mb cache... socket 2011!

best deal by far is the 5080 though... get it used, get a used mobo, check the qualified vendor list for ram that is certified to work with the motherboard and you're done.

I don't see a faster Xeon in the recent history of Xeons that tops 3.73 GHz. However, if you're shopping used why not check out for used non-intel chips (GASP!)
I don't have any info on those but it might be worth looking into.

NO!

5080 is Netburst crap. Speed is obviously not everything, gotta check the IPC before coming to conclusions!

 

[colonelciller]

NO!

5080 is Netburst crap. Speed is obviously not everything, gotta check the IPC before coming to conclusions!

ok!

 

[Emulex]

Well when I said single threaded. I meant say 4 single threaded apps (to make it efficient). or 6 or 8 or 24.

You have to realize your sandy/IVY desktop is far faster than a X5687 by a huge margin. Once you start loading hypervisor, then vm's a physical dual core I5 will seem stupid fast due to the overhead of virtualization.

So let's recalc this:

Cheap - but very high IPC so i can run 4 or 6 or 8 threads as fast as possible.
ECC so my computations don't corrupt/crash.

Perhaps I don't need to overclock? Perhaps there is a chip that borders on Cheap/fast that can fit into my stupid mad HP discount [half off] that would make more sense?

I didn't realize it was so hard to overclock these days.

Also i've been used to 12M 4 core and 6 core cpu's. Reducing the cache might increase the overclock, but wouldn't that hurt if i ran 4 or 6 single-threaded apps at once due to L2/L3 thrashing?

p.s. i'll pay someone to set me up 64bit php on windows 32 with sql server 2012 extensions compiled in CLI - can be non thread safe. Not planning to do any web stuff just some ETL in/out.

 

[crashtech]

What is cheap to you?

 

[Emulex]

Current using a $299 XPS8300 with I7-2600K. Hoping to replace it with something faster. $500?

 

[crashtech]

There's no i3 that can touch a 2600K, single threaded or otherwise, so I am confused now. To go faster (about 10% faster single threaded) than that and get ECC means an E3-1280V2 or better, and it is $646 all by itself.

 

[Emulex]

i thought these new V2 ivy bridge or whatever were generationally far superior in clock/turbo 2.0/IPC/1600mhz ram?

Maybe i'll have to wait for haswell or re-architect to go wide.

It's so easy to go wide-scale-out but so hard to scale-up

The xps8300 was not really meant to be a server, its just doing the task being the fastest cpu I have. It was supposed to my new home desktop lol.

 

[crashtech]

Well the 2600K is a pretty tough act act to beat. Maybe someone else has a different idea, but really all you are gonna get by changing is ECC, significantly more single threaded speed really ain't gonna happen right now.

 

[Vesku]

Not going to beat your 2600K by much and not at all if you have it OCed in the mid 4GHz range, you'll just gain use of ECC memory by going to an E3-12xx V2 Xeon.