What a deal on this great CPU
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I Don't have a LGA2011 board or I would be all over this immediately, I love xeons!
$1556 US. 8 cores, 16 threads. This looks too good to be true. Even if I had to buy a 2011 board, this would be extremely cheap.
They're used from 2012. They were probably pulled from DCOM'd servers.
I've seen them as cheap as $62 on ebay. Yeah, they are an excellent deal if you already own a 2011 motherboard. Otherwise you are looking at around another $200 for a motherboard. Still an Intel 8 core for under $300 is a good deal.
I had the same response...
It's pretty unbelievable in my opinion... Tek Syndicate could start a render node with 2 of these.
Practically like new... They were probably on a climate controlled room and never under extreme workloads
getting the board and chip for $300 is pretty amazing
There's some dell boards that support 2 of them for $220...
its not that great of a deal, this is sandy bridge. The price is within norms.
Performance right up there with the Haswell-E chips and 3/4 the cost... Hmm A render/virtual/server machine with this is a great deal in my opinion.
I'm just imagining two of these, especially for the purposes of a massively overkill workstation.
it will perform nicely, but you can already find ivy based used 8 core xeons for $120
lol i dived in a few weeks ago. only problem is boards are a bitch to get. and good ones are > 300 aud :(
also these things are only slightly better than 8350s. like 1500 difference in passmark, which i understand is not significant.
idk though like you said if you have a 2011 board its a great upgrade. don't expect any overclocks though!
The reason behind this is :
-new xeons have just been released
-more important :
SR0H8 is C1 stepping. VT-x is supported but VT-d is supposedly not supported
SR0KX is the C2 stepping with the VT-d fix which may be important for virtualization pass-through
Everyone seems to be saying this is normal. I may actually get one then. A powerful server for under $500 seems great.
Careful with these. Turns out the C0/C1 stepping has issues with vt-d in some scenarios.. C2 is the best stepping for these. I suspect that the massive flood of these on ebay were chips that were supposed to be destroyed, or were otherwise scrapped by corps moving to cpus that need vt-d reliably.
Are a lot of the early stepping E5-2600 series plague by the VT-d issue or was it just this SKU?
I'm very intrigued at these chips for a dual CPU workstation...
if you don't need vt-d you may grab 'em, you won't exp issues.
I believe the E5-2670 is not a chip that over-clocks well. Given the cost of a 2011 mobo you will need to find a better Xeon for it to be a bargain. The E5-1660 v1 & v2' and E5-1680v2 are supposed to be unlocked and easy to OC, have you seen any of those going cheap?
those are only single cpu setups.