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ryan222h
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For anyone that wants to make a shiny new crunching rig, the Haswell-E CPU's and motherboards (X99) and now available at a number of places.
----------------------------------------Highlights are 6 core (12 thread) Haswell CPU's for under $400 and DDR4 Quad channel memory support. Nice to see that the price for an Intel 6-core CPU is down, however to switch to a totally new platform you'll need to fork out a lot more for the X99 motherboard and DDR4 RAM. Thoughts?  |
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Bearcat
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 6, 2007 Post Count: 2803 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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The 8 core/16 threaded monster is coming soon too. 5960X. $1000.00.
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7697 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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The 8 core/16 threaded monster is coming soon too. 5960X. $1000.00. http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Core_i7/Intel-C...%20Extreme%20Edition.html I'll just bet you are going to buy 4 of them and put them on a quad board.  (I do not know if they are compatible with a quad board or not, but I doubt it.) I wonder who is going to be the first on the block to have one. Maybe Movieman will try one out.Cheers
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twilyth
Master Cruncher US Joined: Mar 30, 2007 Post Count: 2130 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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The 8 core/16 threaded monster is coming soon too. 5960X. $1000.00. http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Core_i7/Intel-C...%20Extreme%20Edition.html I'll just bet you are going to buy 4 of them and put them on a quad board. (I do not know if they are compatible with a quad board or not, but I doubt it.) I wonder who is going to be the first on the block to have one. Maybe Movieman will try one out.Cheers You can get a first generation 2687W octo core that clocks up to 3.8ghz for $600 or less for a used engineering sample. That should work with a supermicro dual socket board. TDP is 150w vs 140w so there's not much difference there. Not sure how much more efficient the haswell is though.   |
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Seoulpowergrid
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You can get a first generation 2687W octo core that clocks up to 3.8ghz for $600 or less for a used engineering sample. This really peaked my interest but wasn't able to find much close to the specs or price you mentioned on ebay. Do you recommend other sites for picking up recent engineering samples? |
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cowtipperbs
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I was also interested to see what out there and came across this listing
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twilyth
Master Cruncher US Joined: Mar 30, 2007 Post Count: 2130 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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You can get a first generation 2687W octo core that clocks up to 3.8ghz for $600 or less for a used engineering sample. This really peaked my interest but wasn't able to find much close to the specs or price you mentioned on ebay. Do you recommend other sites for picking up recent engineering samples?Here is a list of what has been sold on ebay sorted from lowest to highest price. You can see that these have sold for around $600 in the past. If you look at current listings, there is currently one for sale for $575 or best offer and which ships from the US. That's the one that cowtipper linked to. [Edit 1 times, last edit by twilyth at Aug 30, 2014 8:43:32 AM] |
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Eric_Kaiser
Veteran Cruncher Germany (Hessen) Joined: May 7, 2013 Post Count: 1047 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Ok. Back to the new Haswell-E my favorite computer magazine did a first test of the new Core i7-5960X.
----------------------------------------Compared to an overclocked i7-4790K (169 GFlops) and Core i7-4960X (152 GFlops) the new Core i7-5960X reaches 304 to 384 GFlops depending on the mainboard. Some of the mainboard factorers rumored that some of their desktop mainboard might support the upcoming Haswell-EP-Xeons with 18 cores. Another conclusion is that the engineering samples wit x99 chipset are not very stable right now.  |
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KLiK
Master Cruncher Croatia Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Post Count: 3108 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Ok. Back to the new Haswell-E my favorite computer magazine did a first test of the new Core i7-5960X. Compared to an overclocked i7-4790K (169 GFlops) and Core i7-4960X (152 GFlops) the new Core i7-5960X reaches 304 to 384 GFlops depending on the mainboard. Some of the mainboard factorers rumored that some of their desktop mainboard might support the upcoming Haswell-EP-Xeons with 18 cores. Another conclusion is that the engineering samples wit x99 chipset are not very stable right now. that is BRUTAL CPU power...awesome!  |
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Eric_Kaiser
Veteran Cruncher Germany (Hessen) Joined: May 7, 2013 Post Count: 1047 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Too bad that they made changes on the socket for 2011 cpus. So I can't upgrade or have to look for some xeons for this socket.
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