Here's a mini sneak-preview of my thread dedicated to this project, which is coming soon.
Anyway...
First LGA 2011 8-core ES was defective. My other two chips arrived today and work fine. Windows is installed and stable, and it runs very well on my ASUS P9X79. My rig is currently been running Prime95 blend for an hour without issue. I plan on letting it run overnight.
Some quick stats:
8 cores/16 threads at 1.6 GHz, although Prime95 reports 2.0 GHz (chip might have turbo?)
At 100% load, stock speeds, with a 5850 on idle, this system draws ~159 watts at the wall.
This is a 70 Watt TDP chip, running at a very cool 50 degrees with a really bad bolted-on cooler under full load.
CPU-Z image:
Anyway...
First LGA 2011 8-core ES was defective. My other two chips arrived today and work fine. Windows is installed and stable, and it runs very well on my ASUS P9X79. My rig is currently been running Prime95 blend for an hour without issue. I plan on letting it run overnight.
Some quick stats:
8 cores/16 threads at 1.6 GHz, although Prime95 reports 2.0 GHz (chip might have turbo?)
At 100% load, stock speeds, with a 5850 on idle, this system draws ~159 watts at the wall.
This is a 70 Watt TDP chip, running at a very cool 50 degrees with a really bad bolted-on cooler under full load.
CPU-Z image: