Hex core Westmere.

ALXAndy · 30 Jan 2014 at 20:40

Any one running one of these? I forgot I had a X58 MATX board that's been sitting in a box for about two years now.

I bought one today for £48. It's an engineering sample labelled I9.

Now from what I can see they support Turbo of 400mhz. Does this add to the multi?

Sayso · 31 Jan 2014 at 20:25

If you have a 6 core for 48 you have had a result, as far as i can remember you should expect 4.2GHz with decent cooling, as usual when going for a big overclock its a good idea to turn off any boost features.

ALXAndy · 1 Feb 2014 at 11:59

It's clocked to 1.8ghz stock, so only has a 13x multi. The chip I bought is a prototype I9.

I should be able to get it to 3ghz, but with Mantle coming I may not bother. It's a 60w chip with 6 cores, could be brilliant for Mantle

breadturbo · 1 Feb 2014 at 12:03

That's the only 1.8ghz westmere i can locate with turbo.

**actually thats a quad, there are no hex with turbo westmeres listed at that speed...
the only hex westmere at 1.8ghz is the one below, but it has no turbo.

http://ark.intel.com/products/53569/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E7-4807-18M-Cache-1_86-GHz-4_80-GTs-Intel-QPI

ALXAndy · 1 Feb 2014 at 12:52

It's a prototype dude.

60w. I found this when digging online.

If you run the sample number it will take you to a few Chinese web pages, all of which call it an I9. It seems Intel were toying with the idea of an I9 desktop CPU but for whatever reason didn't bother.

Martini1991 · 1 Feb 2014 at 12:55

i9 was just the coined name for Gulftown (6 core CPU's, it made sense, but it never came about)

ALXAndy · 1 Feb 2014 at 12:57

Martini1991 said:
i9 was just the coined name for Gulftown (6 core CPU's, it made sense, but it never came about)

Yeah this seems to be a very, very early sample of Gulftown tbh. I would imagine the reason it's 1.8ghz with a 13 multi is because Intel did not want to give too much away when sending out samples.

Either way, at 60w it's going to make for one hell of a low powered Steam box. I've got a lovely MATX board to throw it in too.

yoyo59 · 1 Feb 2014 at 14:25

lets hope it can oc well as 1.7 is very low, also I thought es chips was never ment to be sold?

ALXAndy · 1 Feb 2014 at 14:51

yoyo59 said:
lets hope it can oc well as 1.7 is very low, also I thought es chips was never ment to be sold?

It's a Westmere

They're not supposed to be sold, no. That wouldn't stop me buying one though

alex_123_fra · 1 Feb 2014 at 15:06

Awesome Andy. 12 threads for £48 @ 3 ghz (possibly more). Bargain of the century.

ALXAndy · 1 Feb 2014 at 15:20

alex_123_fra said:
Awesome Andy. 12 threads for £48 @ 3 ghz (possibly more). Bargain of the century.

Yeah it's pretty good going tbh. I was kinda worried the sale would be pulled, but my friend out in the USA just checked and it's been shipped already and is already in his state. He should get it Monday, then a lead time of around 5-7 days before I get it.

I'm going to build a Steam OS box. That way I can skimp on ram, and not worry too much about huge clocks. I've not built a small PC in years tbh.

Some one has donated a stock 980x (Intel Extreme) cooler, and some ram. I've got an enormous pile of modding parts left over from the AMD build too

breadturbo · 1 Feb 2014 at 17:47

I wonder where he got trays of them from?
Must be samples they didn't ship out to be brand new.

ALXAndy · 1 Feb 2014 at 19:15

breadturbo said:
I wonder where he got trays of them from?
Must be samples they didn't ship out to be brand new.

Very odd tbh. Still I'm not complaining

kingpenguin · 1 Feb 2014 at 20:43

i briefly had a xeon l5639 westmere which was clocked at 2.13ghz with a 16x multiplier. it turbo'd to 18x if only a few cores were loaded. it was easy to get up to nearly 3.3ghz ht enabled at 205 bclk at 1.2 volts on a p6t deluxe v2. it ran 70c max and fuss free and had greater performance in cinebench r15 than a 3770 at 3.9 ghz. again it cost around the £50 mark but i got caught for another £18 import duty. note that it didn't work on my dfi x58jr at all despite using the newest bios.

ALXAndy · 1 Feb 2014 at 20:48

kingpenguin said:
i briefly had a xeon l5639 westmere which was clocked at 2.13ghz with a 16x multiplier. it turbo'd to 18x if only a few cores were loaded. it was easy to get up to nearly 3.3ghz ht enabled at 205 bclk at 1.2 volts on a p6t deluxe v2. it ran 70c max and fuss free and had greater performance in cinebench r15 than a 3770 at 3.9 ghz. again it cost around the £50 mark but i got caught for another £18 import duty. note that it didn't work on my dfi x58jr at all despite using the newest bios.

DFI are no more, so there's a chance that they didn't release a Westmere bios.

Edit. Well they released one for Gulftown. Very very odd then.

gpuerrilla · 1 Feb 2014 at 21:25

Great chip there andy!

ALXAndy · 1 Feb 2014 at 21:57

Th0nt said:
Great chip there andy!

I'm getting para it won't work now lol. I did some more digging and Wikipedia says that the Aurora (Alienware) supports the Xeons, though Alienware never fitted any.

Must stop myself buying any more parts before I've tested it

hash70 · 4 Feb 2014 at 20:50

thats a good chip

ALXAndy · 5 Feb 2014 at 17:00

hash70 said:
thats a good chip

So I hear

If you guys wanted to see where it's going then have a look here.

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/109287-zombie-mods-the-i9-steambox/

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 5 Feb 2014 at 17:13

I have noticed there seems to be a sudden upsurge of cheapish six core socket 1336 CPUs in the US - it is rumoured some big companies might be upgrading older equipment. I won't say more otherwise the mods might beat me!