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Intel Xeon E5-2687W.. The way 8 Cores was meant to be done

Only 3.1 GHz stock with no Turbo Boost? Nope, not using it to make a $4,000 gaming PC 🙂

(Even though the 150 watt TDP would keep me almost as warm as with a bulldozer system.)


.... but seriously, this should be a good CPU for servers and workstations doing highly-threaded work.
 
I'd rather buy a cheap car and drive it into a wall ...., but I'm glad to see Intel didn't cheap out on design like AMD has. You won't be getting 5ghz with an 8 core CPU though buddy. 4 maybe, but that's a lot of heat you're going to have to keep under control.

Really hope Intel PR expose's AMD's BullCrapper via simple graph for the people who don't know any better, this thing is absolutely going to blow bulldozer out of the water and people need to know.
 
You could probably take a couple of world records on HWBot and 3DMark for a least a little while with one or two of these, a good overclocking motherboard, quad SLI/XFire high end video cards and some very good cooling. It's an expensive hobby and maybe not everybody's idea of fun, but I know at least a couple of people who really love seeing their names at the top of the world-record holder lists.
 
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Yeah, pretty impressive, given the frequency. Although if you took 2x 2600K chips, that's (95W - 15W IGP)*2 = 160W. Then add more cache + more memory controller logic, so maybe 170W. Then clock it down a bit...yeah, I guess 150W is reasonable actually.
 
If 2687W is not unlocked, then 2500K/2600K at near 5Ghz overclocks should crush it at single-threaded to four-threaded applications/games. :biggrin:
 
Wait, couldn't you get two Interlagos chips for that kind of money? 16/32 cores/ threads, no matter how you look at it, in multi-threaded workloads, AMD may still come out on top.
 
garagisti said:
Wait, couldn't you get two Interlagos chips for that kind of money? 16/32 cores/ threads, no matter how you look at it, in multi-threaded workloads, AMD may still come out on top.
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Depends on the apps, but at the same price AMD's Interlagos has more Integer cores and that translates to higher core density per rack space.
 
garagisti said:
Wait, couldn't you get two Interlagos chips for that kind of money? 16/32 cores/ threads, no matter how you look at it, in multi-threaded workloads, AMD may still come out on top.
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Why would you even waste your money on Amd? If an 8 core bd can't even beat a 2600K then how would a 16 core one beat this processor?
 
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