EVGA SR-X
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see, this suggests overclocking capability but the only xeon we have tried at OcUK was completely locked down and overclocking was a no go.
This is what was confusing me also. Not that I was ever going to buy one mind you, but suggesting overclocking potential on a totally locked down platform is a bit misleading.
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But what about minesweeper?!
just read this also
rumours say that, encouraged by the unexpected success of the Westmere Xeon 5600 in the OC space, Intel is quite ready to go ahead with unlocked versions of the high end Xeon E5 too. After all, the users of the upcoming EVGA SR-X dual Socket 2011 mainboard, or its likely competitors from Gigabyte or Asus, wouldn’t mind even 250W TDP per socket to get to well above 4 GHz with dual 8-core Xeon E5, backed by 8 memory channels.
Such a board, based on the current experiences with the Core i7-3960X and its cooling, could easily run a say 4.5 GHz dual 8-core setup, with 8 channels total of DDR3-2133 memory – although low latency DDR3-1600 CL6 should be just enough as well. With near half teraflop of peak FP double precision power if using AVX coding, and well over 100 GB/s main memory bandwidth, the monster desktop could feed up to 8 GPUs easily over its 80 PCIe v3 lanes.
For those who can’t afford the big dualie, but still want more than just 6 cores of the 3960X, well look forward some of single socket 8-core Xeon E5 Socket 2011 parts – they are expected to work in the current X79 desktop boards too! Of course, you have to pay more than the usual $999 limit Intel puts on its high end desktop SKUs then. Look here for more info as the things move forward.
rumours say that, encouraged by the unexpected success of the Westmere Xeon 5600 in the OC space, Intel is quite ready to go ahead with unlocked versions of the high end Xeon E5 too. After all, the users of the upcoming EVGA SR-X dual Socket 2011 mainboard, or its likely competitors from Gigabyte or Asus, wouldn’t mind even 250W TDP per socket to get to well above 4 GHz with dual 8-core Xeon E5, backed by 8 memory channels.
Such a board, based on the current experiences with the Core i7-3960X and its cooling, could easily run a say 4.5 GHz dual 8-core setup, with 8 channels total of DDR3-2133 memory – although low latency DDR3-1600 CL6 should be just enough as well. With near half teraflop of peak FP double precision power if using AVX coding, and well over 100 GB/s main memory bandwidth, the monster desktop could feed up to 8 GPUs easily over its 80 PCIe v3 lanes.
For those who can’t afford the big dualie, but still want more than just 6 cores of the 3960X, well look forward some of single socket 8-core Xeon E5 Socket 2011 parts – they are expected to work in the current X79 desktop boards too! Of course, you have to pay more than the usual $999 limit Intel puts on its high end desktop SKUs then. Look here for more info as the things move forward.
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That's some serious power! Can it handle ECC DIMM's or just regular DIMM's?
by pennies you mean pounds yeh?
I've been looking and I still can;t find any new articles on unlocked Xeons since Nov last year. Guess the SR-X is set to be a white elephant....
Asus' move to release the multi-socket 2011 board NOT as an ROG board is looking very shrewd now.... It did make me wonder why at last years overclockers summit Miodrag (formerly of eVGA) denied all existance of such a concept/board (at Asus, specifically as part of the ROG livery) - they'd basically missed the boat with Socket 1366 and knew that Socket 2011 wouldn't overclock out of the box due to the bclk restrictions!
Real shame that there's no multipliers that can be applied through the UEFI. I can;t see intel releasing an unlocked piece to satisfy <1% of the server chip market, but if they do, it'll be expensive as it could really do damage to their server line up if it's too cheap..
Asus' move to release the multi-socket 2011 board NOT as an ROG board is looking very shrewd now.... It did make me wonder why at last years overclockers summit Miodrag (formerly of eVGA) denied all existance of such a concept/board (at Asus, specifically as part of the ROG livery) - they'd basically missed the boat with Socket 1366 and knew that Socket 2011 wouldn't overclock out of the box due to the bclk restrictions!
Real shame that there's no multipliers that can be applied through the UEFI. I can;t see intel releasing an unlocked piece to satisfy <1% of the server chip market, but if they do, it'll be expensive as it could really do damage to their server line up if it's too cheap..
You won't find unlocked Xeon's. None about and from my sources, none are coming out in the near future.
The SR-X can overclock through the BCLK so have fun with that, as you'd be lucky to get 105MHz from it, which isn't exactly raving increases. It was the same with the Asus WS board which we managed to get 2 x Xeon E5-2670's to 103MHz.
Andy
The SR-X can overclock through the BCLK so have fun with that, as you'd be lucky to get 105MHz from it, which isn't exactly raving increases. It was the same with the Asus WS board which we managed to get 2 x Xeon E5-2670's to 103MHz.
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"I don't see the point in this board at all! No unlocked Xeon 2011s have been released yet!"
*FACEPALM*
Seriously guys? With 16 cores, 32 threads, 96GB RAM, 3 way 16x SLI/Crossfire how the heck can any of you see this logic?
I'd personally kill for this new board and just a couple of plain 8 core Xeons. It may not be a worthwhile investment for everyone else, but I...I'd like to see what kind of numbers I can get with x264 on my lossless profile.
I'll always be keeping the SR series in mind for when I can afford one of those systems though. It'd most likely only be as soon as 20 cores/socket are the norm for Xeons though.
http://ark.intel.com/products/64582...-2687W-(20M-Cache-3_10-GHz-8_00-GTs-Intel-QPI)
*FACEPALM*
Seriously guys? With 16 cores, 32 threads, 96GB RAM, 3 way 16x SLI/Crossfire how the heck can any of you see this logic?
I'd personally kill for this new board and just a couple of plain 8 core Xeons. It may not be a worthwhile investment for everyone else, but I...I'd like to see what kind of numbers I can get with x264 on my lossless profile.
I'll always be keeping the SR series in mind for when I can afford one of those systems though. It'd most likely only be as soon as 20 cores/socket are the norm for Xeons though.
http://ark.intel.com/products/64582...-2687W-(20M-Cache-3_10-GHz-8_00-GTs-Intel-QPI)
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