8 core Sandy on ebay

[opethdisciple]

May be the same cpu that was on ebay a couple of weeks back:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/8-Core-Sandy-Bride-EP-CPU-eBay-Listing-Updated-198992.shtml

 

[Ryan-3]

I think it is, but where would you pick up a motherboard for one?

 

[Joey1988]

It would be quite funny if some rich person actually bought it not realising there aren't any motherboards for it yet.

 

[dhruva55]

It would be quite funny if some rich person actually bought it not realising there aren't any motherboards for it yet.

ahahah

 

[Gtiracer]

Quoted from ebay ad:

The 8 core will be way crazy

And quite shocked but the chip is only 1.6 Ghz????

Whats that about, are these chips so efficient they don't need to be any faster?

According to the ebay ad, 66% faster than a 2600k

 

[Sampsy]

Sounds genuine to me. They even managed to bench it against a 2600k without a motherboard or anything!

 

[Gtiracer]

Sounds genuine to me. They even managed to bench it against a 2600k without a motherboard or anything!

lolcopter

 

[233]

Quoted from ebay ad:




And quite shocked but the chip is only 1.6 Ghz????

Whats that about, are these chips so efficient they don't need to be any faster?

According to the ebay ad, 66% faster than a 2600k

1.6ghz probably an early engineering sample

i'd be expecting retails to be double that or more

 

[Martini1991]

If they had an ES Ivy I'm assuming they had an ES board, so they themselves could have benched it.

 

[opethdisciple]

Server chip perhaps, hence the low clock speed?