Xeon E5 Available on Newegg

[Arachnotronic]

They're here. Get your 8 cores of SNB-EP beauty!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...D=l22x2hk7xp44

 

[grkM3]

locked bclk and locked multy tho

 

[Arachnotronic]

We don't know if the BCLK straps work yet on the release chips. With eVGA releasing the SR-X, I'd think that there's some overclocking to be done!

 

[ThatsABigOne]

Expensive.

 

[ZipSpeed]

I would love to have a dual 8-core for distributed computing.

 

[Arachnotronic]

Hm, AT had a review up, but now it's gone? Well, good thing I read it...

 

[tynopik]

Expensive.

The E5-2620 gets you hex core for $180 less than the i7-3930K

of course you also lose 1.2Ghz of clockspeed . . .

 

[tynopik]

when does the e5-1600 series show up?

 

[grkM3]

We don't know if the BCLK straps work yet on the release chips. With eVGA releasing the SR-X, I'd think that there's some overclocking to be done!

they dont.People have tried with es and all xeons are 100% locked

thats why intel can sell one for 800 and a 300mhz higher clocked one for 2k

 

[Arachnotronic]

they dont.People have tried with es and all xeons are 100% locked

thats why intel can sell one for 800 and a 300mhz higher clocked one for 2k

Yeah, on the EVGA forums, an EVGA rep confirmed that while the SR-X supports overclocking, the CPUs themselves do not. Bummer

 

[grkM3]

Yeah, on the EVGA forums, an EVGA rep confirmed that while the SR-X supports overclocking, the CPUs themselves do not. Bummer

I was going to buy 2 es 8 core 2011 xeons on ebay and did as much research as I could and was even emailing guys in asia that had them and they told me bclk was locked and they tried to overclock them also.

 

[gplnpsb]

they dont.People have tried with es and all xeons are 100% locked

thats why intel can sell one for 800 and a 300mhz higher clocked one for 2k

Yea, it's unfortunate. For what it's worth the E5-1650 and E5-1660 should have unlocked multipliers and unlocked strap ratios (I recall seeing a post with an ES of a 1660 that had an unlocked multiplier and an unlocked baseclock strap ratio). That lines up with the single QPI, single socket Xeon equivalents of i7s having unlocked multipliers. (ie the i7 980x and the W3680)

when does the e5-1600 series show up?

Today - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...&Tpk=e5%201660

Yeah, on the EVGA forums, an EVGA rep confirmed that while the SR-X supports overclocking, the CPUs themselves do not. Bummer

Yeah, here's a direct link for anyone that's wondering.

 

[grkM3]

yup u need the 2 qpi ones and those are locked up :/

 

[tynopik]

Today - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...&Tpk=e5%201660

Let me be more specific, when does the E5-1620 show up?

also, single-socket 2011 server boards (C600 series chipset)

 

[Edrick]

Yeah, on the EVGA forums, an EVGA rep confirmed that while the SR-X supports overclocking, the CPUs themselves do not. Bummer

Not going to sell a lot of those boards now!

 

[Arachnotronic]

Not going to sell a lot of those boards now!

I can see these boards being successful if your typical dual LGA 2011 board doesn't support xfire/SLI. But this IS a huge blow.

 

[IntelUser2000]

they dont.People have tried with es and all xeons are 100% locked

thats why intel can sell one for 800 and a 300mhz higher clocked one for 2k

I don't see a version with 300MHz difference in clock from the $2k chip that only costs $800(The $885 2640 loses 2 cores). There's a $1100 version, but its clocked 900MHz less.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

The E5-2620 gets you hex core for $180 less than the i7-3930K

of course you also lose 1.2Ghz of clockspeed . . .

and considering how easy it is to take Sandy to 4.5GHz, the final difference is more like 2.5Ghz, at least...

 

[grkM3]

I don't see a version with 300MHz difference in clock from the $2k chip that only costs $800(The $885 2640 loses 2 cores). There's a $1100 version, but its clocked 900MHz less.

I was a figure of speach and not ment to be taken as 100% fact.All I was trying to say is intel has xeons locked down tighter than a dolphins but.

They will never leave any overclocking room in those cpus since server builders would not buy the 3500 dollar xeons.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

wait a couple of months and the price will drop



a couple of cents :wub:

 

[Arachnotronic]

I was a figure of speach and not ment to be taken as 100% fact.All I was trying to say is intel has xeons locked down tighter than a dolphins but.

They will never leave any overclocking room in those cpus since server builders would not buy the 3500 dollar xeons.

They should've allowed the very highest SKU (2687W) to be overclocked.