ES Xeon Discussion

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DrMuffinMD

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QGP5 is a QS so it has identical M1 stepping as a production processor and identical turbo and clock speeds. The QGP5 will do the same 2.9Ghz turbo with 1/2 cores only. The auction showed a E5-2658 QGP5 at 100% load meaning 2.5Ghz when all cores are under load. When 1 or 2 cores are under load it will boost to 2.9Ghz and the turbo bins/boosts are identical to a production processor.
Fantastic news! And thanks for the insightful info, the CPU will be here tomorrow so I'm excited to test it out!
 

Klee

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Well I have my latest build running with the dual E5-2667 V3 ES cpus. They are VERY odd LOL. Nothing matches a E5-2667 V3. First of all they have 35mb of L3 cache instead of 20mb on the retail one. Second HWiNFO64 shows them to be a 14 core with only 8 that are used.

 

Aluminum

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Well I have my latest build running with the dual E5-2667 V3 ES cpus. They are VERY odd LOL. Nothing matches a E5-2667 V3. First of all they have 35mb of L3 cache instead of 20mb on the retail one. Second HWiNFO64 shows them to be a 14 core with only 8 that are used.
My 1680v2 is like that, 8 cores but has the full L3 cache of a 10 core (2690v2: 25MB) that it was "cut down" from. Will show up as different core #s as well. Long shot, but you might want to try one in an X99 board and see if it is unlocked.
 

Klee

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My 1680v2 is like that, 8 cores but has the full L3 cache of a 10 core (2690v2: 25MB) that it was "cut down" from. Will show up as different core #s as well. Long shot, but you might want to try one in an X99 board and see if it is unlocked.
No I do not have a X99 mobo to try them.

In the bios one thing it shows under the " CPU configuration" is an option for "Active Processor cores" and if you select that it give the option of ALL or 1 through 13. Next time I reboot I plan on messing with that to see what happens.
 

CrazyDave

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Any suggestions for dual cpu. My current budget is <1000$ for cpus. I mainly do video editing so higher cores are better. Currently I am looking at dual 2358v3/2683v3 QS. My other option is to get a single 2696/2699v3 for now and wait to add another later. Are there any good price to performance ES cpus I should be looking at?
 

RickGrick

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Best one is 2699 v3 (non ES)...
if you will overclock it to max turbo (you need to delete microcode from UEFI/BIOS or to downgrade to that one that have no patched microcode from windows you need to delete mcupdate*.dll and it will clocked to max turbo clock)

If you don't want do it than go with E5-2667 V3 ES! it is CPU with extra cache 35MB and 2,9GHz or 2683v3 QS...

One more thing AMD Ryzen it's comming. In one month...
8c@3-4GHz with performance around broadwell-e may be it will be easly overclocked to 4,5GHz. It will cost around i5-i7.
AM4 is much cheaper than LGA2011

My point is if you want to buy one CPU and wait...
... Intel will respone by the time.
 

Klee

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I like them so far. I tried to get more cores working via the bios but no go. I can turn off cores but it will not turn on more than 8 per cpu even tho the bios shows more available.

You will like how the almost double oversize L3 cache, compared to the retail ones, really increases the performance for cpu mining.


@Klee I just got those as well. Hoping to try in the next few days.
 
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