Sandy Bridge-E: 17 New Xeon CPUs for Q4

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[citation][nom]caedenv[/nom]Yes,unlike AMD these will greatly improve over the last series...[/citation]
Ah, so there is a technical problem to support old socket for more than 12 month eh? Who would think of that. Evil users say "intel just wants to make more money" but you sound much more convincing.
 
I can't believe I am going to say this, but I wonder if they will have integrated graphics. HD2000? I would just laugh.

My bigger concern is if they will support vt-x and vt-d, and have the built in hardware security features.
 
[citation][nom]TechEnt[/nom]I can't believe I am going to say this, but I wonder if they will have integrated graphics. HD2000? I would just laugh.My bigger concern is if they will support vt-x and vt-d, and have the built in hardware security features.[/citation]

Why do you think a new Xeon would not support vt-x and vt-d?
 
[citation][nom]DjEaZy[/nom]... when they struggle with innovating, they just put award winning cache in large amounts... maybe in the next series they will put something in, that's is faster and don't need a large cache...[/citation]
How exactly would you define innovation? Regular price drops to remain competitive? Given your criticisms and CPU preference, I assume it has nothing to do with performance.
[citation][nom]DjEaZy[/nom]... and another socket? Again?[/citation]
You have to be about 20th person to say this, and I'm sure you're far from the last. LGA 2011 is not replacing LGA 1155, they're coexisting platforms targeted at two different market segments, like LGA 1156 and LGA 1366. LGA 2011 is replacing LGA 1366, which has been on the market since 2008.

It's not nearly as confusing or cumbersome as many of you are making it out to be, there are really only two primary Intel platforms at any given time.
 
[citation][nom]TechEnt[/nom]I can't believe I am going to say this, but I wonder if they will have integrated graphics. HD2000? I would just laugh.[/citation]
No, Sandy Bridge-E doesn't have integrated graphics.
 
[citation][nom]TheWhiteRose000[/nom]If Evga made a gaming motherboard to handle these cpu's I would definitely buy it even more so if it is dual cpu.[/citation]

Well, depending on this one sold for them they just might.
 
[citation][nom]halcyon[/nom]Why do you think a new Xeon would not support vt-x and vt-d?[/citation]

I imagine they would. I don't know what I was thinking when I posted that concern. Maybe, I shouldn't sleep and post. I was probably thinking of how they fragmented the desktop line, completely different product.
 
[citation][nom]TechEnt[/nom]I imagine they would. I don't know what I was thinking when I posted that concern. Maybe, I shouldn't sleep and post. I was probably thinking of how they fragmented the desktop line, completely different product.[/citation]


It's good to know I'm not the only one that sleep-posts.
 
[citation][nom]halcyon[/nom]Well, depending on this one sold for them they just might.[/citation]
Hence why I said if they made one.
I would so love to abuse something like that in a gaming computer.

XD
 
[citation][nom]caedenv[/nom]Yes,unlike AMD these will greatly improve over the last series, and the next series will greatly improve on this one. So not only a new chipset, but a whole new socket for them as well.Besides, these things are for major servers that you set up and then leave alone. It is not for your home network where you play a little and upgrade here and there. If that is all you are doing then a little i3/5 will do plenty.[/citation]

Sorry to burst your bubble, but having an upgrade path is a fairly big thing in the server industry. Normally, there is a ~ 4 year refresh cycle on servers. A drop in place upgrade can take that to a 5 to 6 year refresh cycle. That's HUGE savings for a company.

Intel did great when they stepped from the 5500 to 5600 series Xeons. Basically the same price, but drop in compatible... offering 2 additional cores as an upgrade without having to blow many more thousands on a whole mobo and chassis.

AMD definitely did them one better. 8 to 12 core drop in upgrade with mangy cours... that was huge... and it swung some of my die-hard "intel for server" colleagues over to the AMD server platform.

This new round of server refreshes... still up in the air I think. If you have intel's 5600 series or any AMD Mangy cpus, I have a feeling you'll be sitting this one out, and gearing up for the next big server CPU release.
 
Will these cpus be usable on single cpu motherboards, or will you have to use 2 of them on a dual cpu motherboard?
 
[citation][nom]Mastodonte[/nom]Will these cpus be usable on single cpu motherboards, or will you have to use 2 of them on a dual cpu motherboard?[/citation]
?? You don't 'have' to use it in a dual proc config, it supports 'up to' dual proc configs. Not a requirement.
 
[citation][nom]Wish I Was Wealthy[/nom]Looks like they've got a good line up of cpus,but I'm hoping to see what's going to go above the Core i7 2600 & at what GHz it will be.[/citation]
Meh, I'm waiting to see what comes next after i7 990X
 
Look when Intel will make a 11 nm cpu, they will be able to create one that has 16 cores running 32 threads at more than 5 GHz at a maximum TDP of 65 watts. That will be enough to keep all apps and processes running without delays. Then I will be able to play Hearts, send an email, receive an instant message, watch a video, check penny stocks, keep my antivirus, antispyware, firewall running and cure cancer. I hate it when I'm trying to cure cancer but my cpu is too slow and I have to delay curing cancer in order to keep playing Hearts.

Computers for 99% of home and corporate users are already fast enough. There's no point to increasing speeds and performance of cpu beyond just doing it for the fun of it. 6 cores and 12 threads is enough to do anything you want to do. If you're experiencing delays, it's caused by your software's bloated coding, not your cpus. If you don't know that, forgetaboutit.
 
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