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**Official i9 discussion thread ** Core i9 6 cores

Greebo said:
Please explain how Intel manages to sell xeons then please? The 6 core xeon 7455 retails for $4,319 or abour £3000. Even the 4 core xeon E7440 sells for $2759 so the new i9 is a bargain at $1200 to $1300.
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Xeon is intended for a very different market though surely. Error correction code, the scalability, those things have to work no matter what.

Btw, apparantly some of the gulftown chips are available (leaked samples).
 
Xeon's are all high end server chips mean't for business use.
If you only needed one of these i9's to handle your server instead of multiple others you'd probably shell out for it!
If a desktop i9 cost that i might lose control!!
 
Will probably wait to see what over clock bundles OCUK do before i buy one, besides I'll wait till usb 3.0 motherboards are out there before upgrading. If the I9 is too pricey I'll get a I7 instead.
 
we did development of a bundle featuring 12gb of memory, the only issue is that the chips didnt seem to clock consistantly enough for us to offer it on a mass scale

the problem in my opinion is that occasionally we get god-like chips with fantastic memory controllers that can handle 200BCLK and a full bank of memory, then we get our next batch which struggle to hit 3.8ghz with 6gb of memory

it really isnt consistant enough, when considering new ideas for bundles we look at two things subjectivley

the quality of the hardware we use
the realism of the overclock

there is no point offering a super cheap overclocked bundle, we could put our 4ghz bundle on a cheaper board, but it would become a returns and support nightmare

then we have to consider if the board we do choose would be able to sustain the overclock. there is no point us offering a 4ghz clock on a low end board, chances are it would just go wrong and be a massive waste of time for the customer.

the same really applies to the memory, we could do a 4Ghz bundle on a 920 with a rampage and 12gb of good 1600mhz memory. but again that would depend entirely on the quality of the chip and how well it handles the extra memory.

i am looking forward personally to seeing how gulftown reacts to 12gb and a beasty overclock
 
Well said. You've missed out the third thing though; how long it takes the technician to set up the bundle. I've no idea how long 4ghz @12gb of 1600mhz would take you per board, even given a decent cpu, but given mine is passing hours of ibt then crashing under medium load after four days of testing I'm betting it's more than a few hours. I'd love any input on why it's doing this btw.

I'm of two minds regarding gulftown. Die shrinks are generally very good for overclockers, but the chips become more fragile with each step as well. I'm a bit concerned that heavily overvolted 32nm processors will drop like flies.
 
I'd be planning to run the chip at standard clock rate and some decent 16GB of RAM - I just need them to work and work quickly!
 
rjkoneill said:
we did development of a bundle featuring 12gb of memory, the only issue is that the chips didnt seem to clock consistantly enough for us to offer it on a mass scale

the problem in my opinion is that occasionally we get god-like chips with fantastic memory controllers that can handle 200BCLK and a full bank of memory, then we get our next batch which struggle to hit 3.8ghz with 6gb of memory

it really isnt consistant enough, when considering new ideas for bundles we look at two things subjectivley

the quality of the hardware we use
the realism of the overclock

there is no point offering a super cheap overclocked bundle, we could put our 4ghz bundle on a cheaper board, but it would become a returns and support nightmare

then we have to consider if the board we do choose would be able to sustain the overclock. there is no point us offering a 4ghz clock on a low end board, chances are it would just go wrong and be a massive waste of time for the customer.

the same really applies to the memory, we could do a 4Ghz bundle on a 920 with a rampage and 12gb of good 1600mhz memory. but again that would depend entirely on the quality of the chip and how well it handles the extra memory.

i am looking forward personally to seeing how gulftown reacts to 12gb and a beasty overclock
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that's a shame but i understand your position. that said I'm sure I wouldn't be alone in saying I'd be willing to pay a little extra for the extra time it takes to get 12GB working and stable. i'm probably going to have to pay an overclocking pro to stick 12GB in my current i74.0 ocuk bundle from you anyway, as i'm not at all experienced in that area, but it's crucial for my work to have 12GB. if it really is down to a gamble of the chip then I guess it's out of the question.
 
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