Intel’s Broadwell-E Flagship Core i7-6950X Processor Confirmed – 10 Core Madness For X99 Enthusiast

[jigger]

Sorry to be picky here jigger but this is why I asked for clarification as neither of those will help you get a "28 thread 3.6 GHz" system nor a "dual socket 20 core" system. Those are indeed 14-core parts but the clock speeds are a lot lower - the 2690 is fastest at 2.6 GHz base speed and that one's a lot more expensive than the i7 (about £1700 inc VAT).

As nkuk says a pair of E5-2640 v4 are promising for 20-cores but again low clock speed (2.4 GHz base) and more expensive (£1600 inc VAT).

Overall I think Intel have positioned these i7s pretty well actually. The high clocks probably make up for the fewer cores for the target market and the price is competitive.

2 CPU's
20 cores 40 threads.
Heatsink and fans
dual socket board
64GB of ECC
£2500

1 CPU
18 cores 36 threads
Dual socket board
32GB of ECC RAM
£2600.

 

[Orangey]

Whatever happened to that made-to-order 5GHz Xeon? How many cores was it?

 

[Caracus2k]

Whatever happened to that made-to-order 5GHz Xeon? How many cores was it?

Quad core 5.1ghz, 2602v4

http://www.techpowerup.com/219275/i...xeon-chip-based-on-the-broadwell-architecture

 

[Retron]

Quad core 5.1ghz, 2602v4

http://www.techpowerup.com/219275/i...xeon-chip-based-on-the-broadwell-architecture

Much like the "6 core mainstream with Cannonlake" stuff, it was just a rumour spread by certain sites.

 

[jigger]

Quad core 5.1ghz, 2602v4

http://www.techpowerup.com/219275/i...xeon-chip-based-on-the-broadwell-architecture

Hmm. That would be a tempting chip in a budget X99 board.

 

[DarrenM343]

Got the 6950X and new mobo to go with my 128Gb RAM.

Will be using it as a gaming rig AND a virtualisation workstation so need the cores and the ram to run multiple VM's (OpenStack/TryStack, virtual storage, KVM nested compute).

Awesome!/
What RAM did you go for?
I'm looking at the same MOBO but possibly the 6900 chip although might go for the 6950X - yet to decide. All to be crammed inside a small lightweight ATX case probably.

 

[Brutos]

The prices on these wow even though I can its hard to justify the prices

 

[danielanthony]

Awesome!/
What RAM did you go for?
I'm looking at the same MOBO but possibly the 6900 chip although might go for the 6950X - yet to decide. All to be crammed inside a small lightweight ATX case probably.

I got Corsair Vengeance memory, they do a 128Gb pack of matched DIMMS. OCUK don't sell these so I had to source from a competitor.

 

[JABenedicic]

I got Corsair Vengeance memory, they do a 128Gb pack of matched DIMMS. OCUK don't sell these so I had to source from a competitor.

Trying to get hold of the same size kit, spoke to OCUK sales to see if they could source for me but unfortunately they couldn't.

Pandering Corsair directly at the moment for them to assist.