E5-2696 V2 CPUs for $325!

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Davewolfs

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Interesting video. DigitalFoundry has some interesting stuff for those who game. One nice thing with SM Is that I believe they have kept the bios up to date. I don’t have NVME but I’m pretty sure it can handle it.

The coffee Lake chips seem to have a big boost over previous gen. I’m sure Intel might push things given AMD is breathing down their backs. Probably good to keep these old chips going another year :)
 

LukeP

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if you can live with 8x8gb or 16x8gb its much much cheaper than the 16gb dimms.

having said that, i just bought 16x16gb yesterday on ebay because i need 256gb. but even 16gb ddr3 is really cheap compared to ddr4.
 

LukeP

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to be more accurate the 8gb can be had for $8 at random times. if you want to just buy right now its more expensive.

16gb is still always around $30 and sometimes $24
 

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wildpig1234

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Finally received my two 2696 v2 today! Both worked great on my Supermicro x9dri-ln4f. Idle power with two cpus is 85 Watt, full load with AVX is 400 watt.
Nice! guess you are ready for some 1950x equalizing performance. btw are you running win10 with that SM MB? if you are. no random lock up? does your MB support S3 sleep mode?
 

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I am still unsure if I should upgrade from my current E5-2670 setup. The E5-2696v2 seems nice but so is the E5-2667v2. The question is if I really need to maximize cores or go for GHz. I whipped up a small plot to help me decide. I am not entirely satisfied with it, but hey - it's 02:20 am

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wildpig1234

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I am still unsure if I should upgrade from my current E5-2670 setup. The E5-2696v2 seems nice but so is the E5-2667v2. The question is if I really need to maximize cores or go for GHz. I whipped up a small plot to help me decide. I am not entirely satisfied with it, but hey - it's 02:20 am

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No one around here buy xeon to do things less than at least 8-12 cores.... if you want an all around cpu at best price performance, 1950x is the way to go. if you want cheapest multithread/$. 2696v2 it is
 

LukeP

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No one around here buy xeon to do things less than at least 8-12 cores.... if you want an all around cpu at best price performance, 1950x is the way to go. if you want cheapest multithread/$. 2696v2 it is
usually. but i buy them for the RAM capacity. if i can get 512GB ram and a 6GHz 4 core I would be happy.
 

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I've only tried FreeBSD so far. Performance is just sick. Today I will try the new release of PostgreSQL 10 on a 10TB dataset. Still though, I'm really busy with other things the coming days so it may take a few days before I have some feedback.