The 10 core Westmere's are out

[Phynaz]

Missed this one. My new HP rep is going to get a phone call.

http://newsroom.intel.com/docs/DOC-1963

 

[SickBeast]

They're actually cheaper than I would have expected at $750.

 

[IntelEnthusiast]

Here is some comparisons on the new E7-8800 http://ark.intel.com/Compare.aspx?ids=53677,53576,53575,53572,53577,53580,. For a multi-processor environment they should be some standout processors.
Christian Wood
Intel Enthusiast Team

 

[Phynaz]

Wait,what?

32GB max memory size?

Who's the genius that made that decision?

 

[blckgrffn]

Wait,what?

32GB max memory size?

Who's the genius that made that decision?

That's confusing... we have nehalem-ex systems that have ~256GB ram per socket... are the Westmere-EX not a replacement for the bigger x86 setups? It says max CPU configuration 8?

 

[aigomorla]

lmao..

7XXX series...

Even i cant afford to look at those with my sponsorships!

:rofl:

 

[blckgrffn]

AHAHA...

That'd be support for 32GB DIMMs -

 

[IntelEnthusiast]

Yea, it is a little confusing the maximum addressable memory on the Intel® Xeon® E7s. Each of the Xeon E7’s will be able to support up to 16 DDR3 DIMMS; with each DIMM supporting up to 32GB Quad Rank DDR 3 sticks. Somehow I have a hard time picturing a board with 128 memory slots on it.

 

[Mark R]

They're actually cheaper than I would have expected at $750.

I guess you must have a different price list.

$750 won't even get you a 6 core 1.7 GHz chip.

A decent 10 core chip is $4,600.

 

[Phynaz]

Yea, it is a little confusing the maximum addressable memory on the Intel® Xeon® E7s. Each of the Xeon E7’s will be able to support up to 16 DDR3 DIMMS; with each DIMM supporting up to 32GB Quad Rank DDR 3 sticks. Somehow I have a hard time picturing a board with 128 memory slots on it.

Somebody needs to change the spec pages so they match the others. The other Xeons list total memory space, not per slot.

 

[RobertPters77]

Wow I wish I could afford that.

Hopefully with these new chips Intel will take more market share away from amd.

 

[aigomorla]

A decent 10 core chip is $4,600.

lolol yup.
Not to mention the hella expensive board to go with it.

 

[dac7nco]

Hopefully with these new chips Intel will take more market share away from amd.

Damn, you're still pissed at your thread being derailed!:biggrin:

Daimon

 

[mv2devnull]

Somehow I have a hard time picturing a board with 128 memory slots on it.

Yes. Supermicro SuperServer 5086B-TRF, for example, boasts only 64 memory slots (2TB) for 8P. But that system takes 5U. Could as well have five 1U 4P servers, 1TB RAM each.

Could. With money. Alas, there is no money at hand.

 

[RobertPters77]

Damn, you're still pissed at your thread being derailed!:biggrin:

Daimon

At the mods yes.

Well all's well that ends well. I got my lappy fixed and I'll be keeping it for a long long time.

 

[Joseph F]

These look awesome! Too bad they're not SB based though. Any word on how many cores LGA2011 CPUs are going to have?

 

[FiLeZz]

These would go great in my esx server, Dell t710 poweredge to bad its the wrong socket. I guess I need to upgrade from my dual 4 core to a dual 10 core, from 16 threads to 40 threads.


The suck part is that each windows VM is limited to 4 cpu's as it sees each core as a socket when fead through esx. But hey that would still be 5VM's with four cores per box

 

[Edrick]

lolol yup.
Not to mention the hella expensive board to go with it.

Can someone even buy these boards without buying a complete system? The only MS server boards I see on Newegg are the dual 1366 boards.

 

[IntelEnthusiast]

At this time Intel is not making a standalone board or even a server that will support the Intel® Xeon® E7’s. Supermicro is offering some servers but no boards. So I would have to guess that there isn’t a standalone board being offered for the Xeon E7’s.
Christian Wood
Intel Enthusiast Team

 

[Mark R]

The suck part is that each windows VM is limited to 4 cpu's as it sees each core as a socket when fead through esx. But hey that would still be 5VM's with four cores per box

Unless you configure esx with cpuid.coresPerSocket=2 (or 4, or however many cores per socket you want your VMs to see)

 

[blckgrffn]

Unless you configure esx with cpuid.coresPerSocket=2 (or 4, or however many cores per socket you want your VMs to see)

No kidding. We run tons of Windows VMs with 6-8 vCPUs.

You *should* have Datacenter licenses for your ESX servers, use it!

 

[tweakboy]

Good stuff, good thread. 10 cores plus HT 20 threads WOWOW and it will cost a nice 1k when it first comes out..... ty

 

[PreferLinux]

Good stuff, good thread. 10 cores plus HT 20 threads WOWOW and it will cost a nice 1k when it first comes out..... ty

1k??? You mean 4.7k. Note, these are server CPUs, not desktop.

 

[RobertPters77]

When can we expect 10 core desktop i7's?

 

[PreferLinux]

Ivy Bridge extreme versions on LGA2011 at the earliest (2012), if not Haswel (2013).