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Sandy bridge-E ppd?

No Bigadv, so i would be shocked if SMP numbers for SBE justify the price over X58 system.

Still interested in the numbers tho.
 
Wondering if their multi-threaded hype lives up to it tho, might be a viable upgrade for their xeon based ones in the future
 
Get Kyle to run a test and post since he has his review unit still inhand, eventhough not terribly stable from what he posted.
 
The performance per watt probably would make it an expensive setup to run :)
 
I think for folding SB-E will prove to be a worthy replacement to the X5600 series. We love the 2600K and the SB-E is that with with more cores and more memory bandwidth. The 8 core Xeon's are what we really what / need anyway with the SR-3. Sure they will use some serious power but I think a pair of them will produce some serious D. Also worth note SB-E Xeon will be offered in a four socket version so for the first time in a while we will have an Intel Four Socket that will really kick some ass.

The benchmarks and reviews I have read are focused on the gaming potential of this CPU and in that regard it is only roughly equal to a 2500K. This is a good sign that the latency in the SB-E platform is just as low as the latency in the SB platform. So for most things it doesn't scale much beyond what a 2600K can do but under folding in a dual socket system it might do very well.

We should also look forward to the die shrink before it will become really really good on PPD per watt.

Naturally this is just my opinion.
 
nwrtarget said:
I think for folding SB-E will prove to be a worthy replacement to the X5600 series. We love the 2600K and the SB-E is that with with more cores and more memory bandwidth. The 8 core Xeon's are what we really what / need anyway with the SR-3. Sure they will use some serious power but I think a pair of them will produce some serious D. Also worth note SB-E Xeon will be offered in a four socket version so for the first time in a while we will have an Intel Four Socket that will really kick some ass.

The benchmarks and reviews I have read are focused on the gaming potential of this CPU and in that regard it is only roughly equal to a 2500K. This is a good sign that the latency in the SB-E platform is just as low as the latency in the SB platform. So for most things it doesn't scale much beyond what a 2600K can do but under folding in a dual socket system it might do very well.

We should also look forward to the die shrink before it will become really really good on PPD per watt.

Naturally this is just my opinion.
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what you're basically saying is: SB-E is what bulldozer should have been:

basically the same on a per core/per clock basis. With 8 cores/16 threads in the Xeons, they should be pretty nice crunchers. In a few months we might be seeing another influx of SR3 boards :)
 
jebo_4jc said:
what you're basically saying is: SB-E is what bulldozer should have been:

basically the same on a per core/per clock basis. With 8 cores/16 threads in the Xeons, they should be pretty nice crunchers. In a few months we might be seeing another influx of SR3 boards :)
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That is my interpretation. We all know dual 2600K would be really nice (not technically possible) but this is as close as we are going to come for now. There are Low power parts on the list so it is possible that we could get some good ones that run with less voltage.

We will see. Lets hope some Extra Spicey ones pop up.
 
if ASUS really comes through with a 2p competitor to the SR3, we might have some better priced motherboard options on our hands too
 
EVGA has teased it and I've been told Asus has one coming as well.
 
jebo_4jc said:
EVGA has teased it and I've been told Asus has one coming as well.
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Have you heard if the ASUS will be overclockable too? Or will it just be a next-gen workstation board like their current Z8 series for 2P LGA1366?
 
Somebody around here (I forget who) said Asus was working on a Sr3competitor.
 
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