14c Xeon 2ghz x99

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I am leery on these...... Just because I have a few Xeons here at home. All v3's 16xx's and 26xx's. All of mine have one gas pressure hole, not two like these. And the alignment of the Intel labeling is all perfectly aligned on mine. The placement on these seems to be a bit erratic, and they all have 2 holes, not 1.

Call me paranoid........
 
Literally just bought an e5 2676 (2.4ghz for 12c/24t, 3ghz boost) for $350... I guess it will be fine since it was in US vs. international.
 
Net Prowler said:
What are you rendering? What software takes advantage of this many cores?
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I use Xnormal for texture baking, as well as Sculptris for realtime sculpting of million-plus-polygon geometry. Mental-Ray and Turtle also eat up as many cores as you can throw at them. Not to mention that having 20Gb of RAM filled up with these applications in the background I can still run games smoothly.
 
KazeoHin said:
I use Xnormal for texture baking, as well as Sculptris for realtime sculpting of million-plus-polygon geometry. Mental-Ray and Turtle also eat up as many cores as you can throw at them. Not to mention that having 20Gb of RAM filled up with these applications in the background I can still run games smoothly.
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Cool, looks like I need some more RAM then. I only have 8gb of DDR4 at the moment.
 
WhoBeDaPlaya said:
Hell, even Handbrake can use that up easy.
Gives my quad X5675s a good workout.
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Okay, cool. I use handbrake with my 5930k and it seems to run pretty well. It will be interesting to see how much the performance changes with the xeon.

I was asking because most of what I hear (and have experienced, at least with games) was that all the software out there is mainly limited to one or two cores. But perhaps that is just games and I was extending that to all other software as well.
 
But perhaps that is just games and I was extending that to all other software as well.
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Most desktop software and games will not use anywhere near 28 threads.


Video processing software on the other hand may use all of your cores depending on the software.
 
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Net Prowler said:
I was asking because most of what I hear (and have experienced, at least with games) was that all the software out there is mainly limited to one or two cores. But perhaps that is just games and I was extending that to all other software as well.
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Games seem to benefit greatly from either 2c/4t or 4c/4t, with some newer titles showing a lot of gains going 4c/8t.
The sweet spot for gaming would still be the highest clocking 4c/8t with the highest IPC you can get, so that means Skylake / Kabylake at the moment.

Skylake-E/X should be interesting since now HEDT will have the same core, not lagging behind like for the past few gens.
Zen should be interesting as well with (hopefully) affordable and decent performing 8c/16t.
 
Too bad my company won't let me purchase used. It would be so much better. We're still using 980X-es from 5 years ago, and they refuse to spend the money needed to get new workstations, and they also refuse to buy the cheap used ones.
 
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