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Xeon E5 Available on Newegg

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!
 
Intel17 said:
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!
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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
 
grkM3 said:
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
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Yeah, on the EVGA forums, an EVGA rep confirmed that while the SR-X supports overclocking, the CPUs themselves do not. Bummer 🙁
 
Intel17 said:
Yeah, on the EVGA forums, an EVGA rep confirmed that while the SR-X supports overclocking, the CPUs themselves do not. Bummer 🙁
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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.
 
grkM3 said:
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
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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)

tynopik said:
when does the e5-1600 series show up?
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Today - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...&Tpk=e5%201660

Intel17 said:
Yeah, on the EVGA forums, an EVGA rep confirmed that while the SR-X supports overclocking, the CPUs themselves do not. Bummer 🙁
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Yeah, here's a direct link for anyone that's wondering.
 
grkM3 said:
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
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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.
 
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IntelUser2000 said:
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.
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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.
 
grkM3 said:
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.
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They should've allowed the very highest SKU (2687W) to be overclocked.
 
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