I've been waiting for a pair of these beasts for months but trying to get a pair without writing a check for close to $6000.00 took a lot of finagling.
Besides, these piddly 8 core E5-2687W V2's are only at #16 according to BOINC stats RAC so the only way to move higher is more cores or LINUX and I'm a confirmed windows guy.
Oh,speaking of linux, I will give you folks a chuckle.
A few days ago I hear my door bell ring and there's a package there.
I'm not expecting anything so I have this "Duh" look on my face as I look at the return address and open it up.
Inside is a Kingston HyperX 120 gig SSD and I'm still standing there trying to figure out the why's of all this?
A little later that day a good friend messaged me when I mentioned this to him" Don't format the drive" which caused me to do another DUH and what the heck is going on.
It seems that my friend in England Old Chap got a little frustrated after spending 2 YEARS telling me to try Linux on a cruncher and me saying "Yea, I will sometime" so he got together with another guy, did a linux install with WCG and sent me the all set up drive.
God Bless his heart! What can you say to people like this except Thank you which never seems to convey how you feel but it's all you have.
Now I have business comittments to run on these new 12 cores but after that on goes linux and we'll see if the best Intel dualie system money can by overclocked to the stable limits can knock off those quad socket Enterprise class AMD's and Intels at the top of the dailies..