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Has anyone else been following the news on these?
They seem pretty awesome.
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14nm Broadwell Xeons with 4 cores at 2.25Ghz or 8 cores at 2.0ghz, HT on both, and a reported ~5.5% IPC increase over haswell xeons, utilizing dual channel registered DDR4 maxing out at 128GB, but also with compatibility for DDR3L.
SOC with integrated dual 10Gbe ethernet and 2 gigabit ethernet, plus all the regular Sata and uSB stuff.
All of the above in a 45W TDP package, which is amazing, considering the 10gig ethernet typically takes 13-17W on its own.
And it's no slouch either, performing faster than a dual L5520 in the tests I have seen.
The downside is that they are not socketed designs, so you are buying the CPU and motherboard together, but on the flip side, rumored pricing seems surprisingly reasonable at $600 - $1000, which is rather amazing inand of itself considering that the price of a dual channel Intel 10GBe adapter on it's own is a very large chunk of this.
Thus far the only announced products I have seen are mini-ITX versions by Supermicro and an extended ITX version by Asrock Rack neither of which really fir the bill for me as I need more expansion.
The SOC maxes out at 24 total PCIe 3 channels + 8 additional PCIe 2 channels.
I'd like to see an ATX or EATX version with all 8x slots, where 3 of them are 8x PCIe 3 electrically and two are PCIe 2 4x electrically (or maybe 1 4x and 3 1x would work)
or maybe instead utilize some of those lanes for an on board LSI RAID controller (preferably one that can be reflashed as an HBA with IT firmware for ZFS use)
Has anyone else been eye balling these for your ESXi (or other virtualization) setups?
I like my 2x L5640, but it is 2x 60W, plus the power for the gigabit controllers, plus the power for the 10gbe controller...
I kind of wish these Xeon D's had been an option when I was upgrading my server last year...
They seem pretty awesome.
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14nm Broadwell Xeons with 4 cores at 2.25Ghz or 8 cores at 2.0ghz, HT on both, and a reported ~5.5% IPC increase over haswell xeons, utilizing dual channel registered DDR4 maxing out at 128GB, but also with compatibility for DDR3L.
SOC with integrated dual 10Gbe ethernet and 2 gigabit ethernet, plus all the regular Sata and uSB stuff.
All of the above in a 45W TDP package, which is amazing, considering the 10gig ethernet typically takes 13-17W on its own.
And it's no slouch either, performing faster than a dual L5520 in the tests I have seen.
The downside is that they are not socketed designs, so you are buying the CPU and motherboard together, but on the flip side, rumored pricing seems surprisingly reasonable at $600 - $1000, which is rather amazing inand of itself considering that the price of a dual channel Intel 10GBe adapter on it's own is a very large chunk of this.
Thus far the only announced products I have seen are mini-ITX versions by Supermicro and an extended ITX version by Asrock Rack neither of which really fir the bill for me as I need more expansion.
The SOC maxes out at 24 total PCIe 3 channels + 8 additional PCIe 2 channels.
I'd like to see an ATX or EATX version with all 8x slots, where 3 of them are 8x PCIe 3 electrically and two are PCIe 2 4x electrically (or maybe 1 4x and 3 1x would work)
or maybe instead utilize some of those lanes for an on board LSI RAID controller (preferably one that can be reflashed as an HBA with IT firmware for ZFS use)
Has anyone else been eye balling these for your ESXi (or other virtualization) setups?
I like my 2x L5640, but it is 2x 60W, plus the power for the gigabit controllers, plus the power for the 10gbe controller...
I kind of wish these Xeon D's had been an option when I was upgrading my server last year...