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New Intel Xeon Processor Announced

tjmagneto

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Intel is rolling out new 32nm processors which are to have up to 10 cores of goodness. Here's the announcement link. The one that interests me at first glance is the 10-core E7-8867L which has a clock speed of 2.13 GHz and a TDP of 105 watts.

Time for a new version of the SR-2!
 
I don't even want to know how much that 10 core/20 thread processor is going to cost. I suppose one of you guys will have to wait till a bunch of extra spicy ones hit Fleabay after a while similar to how you guys totally ruled the purchase of those extra special L5640's!
 
tjmagneto said:
Intel is rolling out new 32nm processors which are to have up to 10 cores of goodness. Here's the announcement link. The one that interests me at first glance is the 10-core E7-8867L which has a clock speed of 2.13 GHz and a TDP of 105 watts.

Time for a new version of the SR-2!
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I'm just hoping these drive the cost of the 1366 Highspeed Xeon hex cores to $500-$700.
 
These things are targeted at a higher end market. Starting price is in the $770 range and up into the several thousand IIRC. Romley is SR-2 replacement candidate.
 
This is one damn sexy CPU; too bad it will be out of my pay grade for the considerable future.
 
Without selling an internal organ..... out of my folding budget as well.
 
I saw the pricing on these and it is way over my head as well. Now if I can sell a car and one of my kids.... Better not.
 
Hmmm.

Okay, if you want a dual socket setup:

6 core --- $775 1.73Ghz x2= $1,550

8 core --- $1,334 2Ghz x2= $2,668

Do these chips work in the SR-2?
 
patriot already tested these about a month or so ago i believe and the performance was pretty crappy if i remember correctly but that was at stock clocks. i don't see these overclocking all that high either.

no pocatello, i believe these are 1567 or something like that since they support quad socket which 1366 doesn't support.
 
Afraid not. The SR-2 supports LGA 1366 and the E7s are all LGA1567 socket based.
 
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I honestly can't even begin to speculate what the PPD of that would be.... but I think it would stomp the crap out of the best SR2 rig out there......

easily sub 10 min TPF.
 
I'll take 4. Intel, if you're reading this, you can ship the review system to my home address
 
I'm going to say 500kppd based of the calculator. CPU clocks are just too low to do really amazing numbers. Only about double the total Ghz of a high end SR-2.
 
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jfb9301 said:
hmmmmm..................

put 4 of these........http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Xeon/Intel-Xeon%20E7-8870.html

into one of these..........http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=LGA1567&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:eek:fficial&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=2031167918035909814&sa=X&ei=nNubTZrHOuuD0QGH3uThAg&ved=0CCcQ8wIwAg#

10e..... you still the biggest kid on the block?

OTOH, you'd be out $21000

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That pretty much gives new perspective to just how affordable AMD's lineup of server processors actually are. For $21k, you could build several 48core Magny Cours quad processor bigadv rigs that would easily be upgradable to become a 64 core quad Interlagos bigadv rig in the future. Just thinking about a 64 core quad Interlagos folding rig makes me need to take a cold shower all of a sudden.
 
jfb9301 said:
I honestly can't even begin to speculate what the PPD of that would be.... but I think it would stomp the crap out of the best SR2 rig out there......

easily sub 10 min TPF.
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um you realize that for 1/4 the price 4 6180SE's would be in the sub 5 minute TPF at around 600k PPD... yeah no these xeons serve no purpose for F@H and don't even come close to magny cour's performance per dollar..

but hey if some one wants to blow 20 grand into a limited run socket then be my guest.. because LGA1567 isn't going to be in use very long..
 
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at least someone caught onto where I was headed.

I'll have to ninja edit in the begin

Intel just misses the mark on what "affordable" is.... especially in enterprise level hardware.
 
jfb9301 said:
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at least someone caught onto where I was headed.

I'll have to ninja edit in the begin

Intel just misses the mark on what "affordable" is.... especially in enterprise level hardware.
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well at enterprise level intel beats magny cour in every way other then raw data where the quad channel DDR3 bandwidth has its advantage. so they don't really need to be affordable at that level since there isn't much competition for them. bulldozer may change that though. but i think lga-1567 is priced the way it is so that intel can make every dime possible on the socket knowing it will be dead within a year.
 
Let's get a collection going here for someone to buy some of this Intel goodness.

Here... I pitch in one dollar for this cause. ;)
 
A Dell R910 with 4x Intel Xeon X7550 (8 core 2GHz) gets around ~215KPPD on a 6901 running RedHat 5.5
 
I have a 4x 6180 system, and at the stock 2.5ghz clock, you're looking at TPF of 5:40-5:55 for 6901, with about 730W power draw (no PCIe add-in cards). (so about 422-460K PPD).

price per point is hard to beat, and watt per point as well.

The 7500 series, E7-4xxx, E7-8xxx is targetted to high reliability, virtualization density and consolidation, and other high end markets. Not sure why one would purchase this hardware for folding...

sirmonkey1985 said:
um you realize that for 1/4 the price 4 6180SE's would be in the sub 5 minute TPF at around 600k PPD... yeah no these xeons serve no purpose for F@H and don't even come close to magny cour's performance per dollar..

but hey if some one wants to blow 20 grand into a limited run socket then be my guest.. because LGA1567 isn't going to be in use very long..
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I don't know why intel is adding more 1567 procs now...
the 10cores are nothing new... and the tpf is not hardly impressive...

I played with one a month or so ago....
2 grand board + a few 2grand chips...bleck... wait for next stuff or go amd now and have an upgrade path...
 
They're nice, but have you seen the PRICES!!!

Also I'm not sure how much the cache vs clocks will pay off, oh and they also have pricing for the E3's which isn't bad at all (long overdue for a refresh). This and Bulldozers promise for "more cores for less money in 2011 when we unleash the Bulldozer" makes it sound evermore promising.
 
sirmonkey1985 said:
well at enterprise level intel beats magny cour in every way other then raw data where the quad channel DDR3 bandwidth has its advantage. so they don't really need to be affordable at that level since there isn't much competition for them. bulldozer may change that though. but i think lga-1567 is priced the way it is so that intel can make every dime possible on the socket knowing it will be dead within a year.
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I agree 100 percent. Hopefully Bulldozer comes along and makes things competitive not only at the bottom but at the top end too.
 
The chances of a k version of these are slim to none, so no SR2 for you.
 
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