Just figured I would post this thread to see if any one else has jumped on the band wagon.
Since the prices of CPUs shot up I've been buying ES Xeons. But not the sort you would see on X58 (the 5000 series) these are all Ivy or newer.
A mate of mine sent me a 2680 V2 Ivybridge. It isn't the 10 core retail version it's the OEM version that Intel used in some of their servers. So it's not an ES (as it has a full model number and not a code) and it's not retail. I have this chip (3.3ghz - 3ghz on all cores) in a Gigabyte X79. It cost me £120 about a year ago, still going very strong. Has tons of cache too (they cut the cores but not the full 25mb cache) so it's quite a bit faster than the Sandy ones every one was buying.
Recently though I took a chance on a couple of BE ES. The first one I bought last June. It is a 14 core 28 thread and runs from 3.2ghz on 4 cores or less to 2.8ghz on the rest. However, I figured out a trick with MSI OC Genie and that is if you enable it it then clocks every core to their max turbo, independent of how many are being used. So in this case the first four run 3.2ghz and the rest at their max turbo clock but all at once. I paid £360 for this CPU last year and it scores around 2100 in CB. Not ground shattering, but obviously quite a chunk more than a 1800x for example that cost more then.
Then last week I treated myself to another BE ES, this time 10/20 and it cost me £160. Same clocks and turbos as the 14. I can base clock about 1.5mhz overall which brings the 14 to nearly 3.3ghz. Does make a difference too.
So yeah ,is any one else using these? there are Haswell examples out there but they tend to cost more than the Broadwells and are obviously a bit slower.
So yeah, if you are on one chime in and post a pic of your CPUID link image
Since the prices of CPUs shot up I've been buying ES Xeons. But not the sort you would see on X58 (the 5000 series) these are all Ivy or newer.
A mate of mine sent me a 2680 V2 Ivybridge. It isn't the 10 core retail version it's the OEM version that Intel used in some of their servers. So it's not an ES (as it has a full model number and not a code) and it's not retail. I have this chip (3.3ghz - 3ghz on all cores) in a Gigabyte X79. It cost me £120 about a year ago, still going very strong. Has tons of cache too (they cut the cores but not the full 25mb cache) so it's quite a bit faster than the Sandy ones every one was buying.
Recently though I took a chance on a couple of BE ES. The first one I bought last June. It is a 14 core 28 thread and runs from 3.2ghz on 4 cores or less to 2.8ghz on the rest. However, I figured out a trick with MSI OC Genie and that is if you enable it it then clocks every core to their max turbo, independent of how many are being used. So in this case the first four run 3.2ghz and the rest at their max turbo clock but all at once. I paid £360 for this CPU last year and it scores around 2100 in CB. Not ground shattering, but obviously quite a chunk more than a 1800x for example that cost more then.
Then last week I treated myself to another BE ES, this time 10/20 and it cost me £160. Same clocks and turbos as the 14. I can base clock about 1.5mhz overall which brings the 14 to nearly 3.3ghz. Does make a difference too.
So yeah ,is any one else using these? there are Haswell examples out there but they tend to cost more than the Broadwells and are obviously a bit slower.
So yeah, if you are on one chime in and post a pic of your CPUID link image
