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ES-2695v3 £1925?

My goodness me. There are CPU's with many more cores than this out there, but this looks nice... I'll take one if you are offering? :D
 
samcat said:
Got a large amount of ln2 I need to use up, its going stale... :p
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I'll take it, I have an old computer which I am going to melt with some thermite... Could combine the thermite with some LN2 and make it explode. :p

... Okay best not
 
Wow. I do have a couple of things to say:

1. Excessive amounts of drool can seriously damage your hardware.

2. This is for very specific uses, where ECC and lower TDP is a must. As a Xeon, the multiplier will be locked making overclocking next to impossible, and the 5960X can be pushed to over 4Ghz easily. That will result in a similar overall amount of power but with far greater single thread performance.
 
Ayahuasca said:
I'd buy one if games could utilise every core. At the moment most can't even stress 4 cores properly.
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I wouldn't. For £2 grand? If one had that kind of money for a gaming PC it should be spent 75% on GPU/25% on CPU max. No games are that CPU bound.

Wish our cluster had these in though, would make crazy-powerful SMP nodes.
 
Orangezorki said:
2. This is for very specific uses, where ECC and lower TDP is a must. As a Xeon, the multiplier will be locked making overclocking next to impossible, and the 5960X can be pushed to over 4Ghz easily. That will result in a similar overall amount of power but with far greater single thread performance.
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Being a Xeon it will have a ridiculously low TDP and temps though. The 5960x at 4ghz uses lots of power and gets really hot..

Just recently I set up a 8c 16t Xeon (Ivy) and it idles at 29c and maxes out at 45c on this cooler...



Which is basically a small alu brick from an old Dell 1366 rig. It has a 60mm fan on the bottom which I have set to silent and literally hardly moves.

At idle I use 13w and at full load no more than 71w.

I don't normally go for the power argument but if you're running them 24 hours a day 7 days a week it definitely becomes a factor. Mine will be a server when it's finished :)
 
I don't actually get what point the OP is trying to make?

Is it that the CPU is expensive? Well yes, cutting edge tech usually is. This CPU isn't for the consumer market and I am pretty certain that if a consumer purchased one of those or a 99v3 over a 5930K or 5960X they would be pretty unhappy with the way it plays games etc. This CPU is for server/workstation use and in those environments where utilised this CPUwould knock the spots off almost anything out there.
 
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