mfenn
Elite Member
You're talking about different Xeons. The W series Xeons are binned the same as I7's. X series are not.. Maybe you can explain the price & memory capacity difference .. W3680 is also Westmere-EP but has only 1 QPI link..
http://ark.intel.com/products/47917/Intel-Xeon-Processor-W3680-12M-Cache-3_33-GHz-6_40-GTs-Intel-QPI
http://ark.intel.com/products/47916/Intel-Xeon-Processor-X5680-12M-Cache-3_33-GHz-6_40-GTs-Intel-QPI
You said "Xeons are binned better than i7's", not "X56XX series Xeons". I was pointing out that that overly broad statement is factually incorrect because "Xeon" covers a huge range of processors. Thank you for refining your statement to one that is correct.