ES Xeon Discussion

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wildpig1234

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The best price/performance option for LGA1366 is the X56/W36 series. You can get a X5650 6 core processor for about $55 USD while being highly overclockable for example. That would make a good interim upgrade path while you wait for prices to drop further on the 2686 V3.
I actually do also have a dual x5650 system also :). unfortunately it's an hp z800 without much any overclock options. it is of course faster than my i7-2600k when it comes to heavily threaded apps but still slower than my dual e5-2670v1..
 

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What about CPUs that are labelled pre-QS? Do they still mirror the retail?

I lucked out and picked up two QS 2683v3 QFQK for $255/each earlier, looks like the supply has run low. I'm unsure of how the ES chips differ.
 

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The best price/performance option for LGA1366 is the X56/W36 series. You can get a X5650 6 core processor for about $55 USD while being highly overclockable for example. That would make a good interim upgrade path while you wait for prices to drop further on the 2686 V3.
I know that I can upgrade to X5650 but if I do not start building platform quickly my funding may run out :).
i think i will buy only one e5 2686 v3 qs for a moment and wait to fiind another one cheaper.
 

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Does anyone know if any of the V4 work on a Gigabyte X99M Gaming 5? (Especially ones that turbo into the 3GHz range.)

e5 2686 v3 qs for around $250 look pretty compelling, not finding any info showing that they work on a Gigabyte board though.
 

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Do you mean 2683 v3 QS for $250?

I don't think Iv'e seen the 2686 v3 QSs under $500 for a while now.
 

Kalistoval

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did you solve the problem? if not try dual channel DDR4. MSI X99A Raider is work with e5-2698v4

Is your board bios p.4 out of the box??? or did you have to flash the bios? I have 1 brand new in the box but cant get it to post with dual channel stick CT4G4DFS8213 2133 MHZ in dimm 1 and dimm 5 with a
QHUY 2.00. This is with parts I currently use on my main rig gpu psu fans.
 

DunePilot

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My mistake, you're right. The 86 is a little too much, I can get a 6800k for $385 so anything close to $400 I would just go for the 6800k.
 

ewwink

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Does anyone know if any of the V4 work on a Gigabyte X99M Gaming 5? (Especially ones that turbo into the 3GHz range.)

e5 2686 v3 qs for around $250 look pretty compelling, not finding any info showing that they work on a Gigabyte board though.
cpu supported list GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Socket 2011-3 - Intel X99 - GA-X99M-Gaming 5 (rev. 1.0)
turbo is only for 1 core, I will avoid 2686v3 qs all core boost only 2.3Mhz, it better 2683 v3, oem 2.5Mhz but some have 2.7Mhz all core.

Is your board bios p.4 out of the box??? or did you have to flash the bios? I have 1 brand new in the box but cant get it to post with dual channel stick CT4G4DFS8213 2133 MHZ in dimm 1 and dimm 5 with a
QHUY 2.00. This is with parts I currently use on my main rig gpu psu fans.
I do flash, try reset bios or upgrade to p.5
 

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My mistake, you're right. The 86 is a little too much, I can get a 6800k for $385 so anything close to $400 I would just go for the 6800k.
They're pretty different beasts though.

12 core/24 thread @ 2GHz (turbo to 3GHz) vs 6 core/12 thread @ 3.4GHz (turbo to 3.6GHz).

For a workstation, the 6800k makes a lot of sense. For a virtualization or server, than definitely more cores.


Keep in mind, there's still the E5-2658 v3 ES still available for $150-ish, which with 12 cores @ 2GHz (turbo to 2.3GHz), is still quite a bargain.
 

krista

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hey, is there any tool that you guys know of that will measure the turbo speed steps of a cpu? i mean like all core turbo, 4 core turbo, 3 core turbo, 1 core turbo, etc.


thanks!
 

ewwink

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hey, is there any tool that you guys know of that will measure the turbo speed steps of a cpu? i mean like all core turbo, 4 core turbo, 3 core turbo, 1 core turbo, etc.

thanks!
single or all: cinebench
single core: superPI
for all core: cpu-z > Bench > Stress CPU
more @ http://hwbot.org/benchmarks/processor

3,4,5... core, for what? but you can see table* created by @joek or @ http://goo.gl/Xwe9Tm

* specs for oem, es or qs may lower clock speed.
 

krista

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more like @joek's table (or the one on the xeon page on wikipedia), but i want to actually measure it. i have a few es and qs chips i want to check. i don't need or want a benchmark: i want to know base clock, turbo all cores clock, turbo 1 core clock, and each step in between. some of the higher core count cpus have 5 or more steps...and i'd like to determine what they are.
 

krista

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that might be an interesting way to get an indirect measurement.... it'd probably need to continuously log all the core multipliers, wait, run a single thread associated with a single core and measure, wait, run two threads associated with seperate cores and measure, wait... you get the picture.


if nothing automated comes up, maybe i'll code something... although if something already exists, i'd rather not reinvent it.
 

RolloZ170

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hey, is there any tool that you guys know of that will measure the turbo speed steps of a cpu? i mean like all core turbo, 4 core turbo, 3 core turbo, 1 core turbo, etc.
thanks!
just look into your bios
TurboBINs.gif
and AIDA64 can display the turbo bin's in the CPU info sheet.
aida64turbobins.png
 
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Ninjagordy

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Hi Guys, New here and hoping for some advice please! ,

i have a chance of a great deal on a Gigabyte X99-UD4P (rev 1.0) and was hoping to pick up a decent Xeon E5 cpu for it. its on a desktop that i use for mild gaming etc and general use. Does anyone know for cetain which options work with this board and which bios to use. i will be getting an Xeon ES/QS due to price. hoping for 10 cores at a decent speed as well or similar!

thanks again!!

Gordy! :)