News - Intel launches Haswell-based Xeon E5-2600 v3 processors

[HEXUS]

Now with up to 18 cores and 36 threads, plus DDR4 support.

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[directhex]

These work in consumer X99 boards, if you want a gaming rig with an 18-core CPU

[shaithis]

The £500 for a dual CPU motherboard seems very cheap compared to 2 of those CPUs - 72 threads anyone? )

The next round of ESX hosts should be pretty sweet.

[watercooled]

These work in consumer X99 boards,

Interesting. Have any links?

[Scow Captain]

Noticed Scan had these up for pre-order, rather surprised me since they still don't stock the E3 Haswell refreshes released in Q2.

These work in consumer X99 boards,

Interesting. Have any links?

e.g.
http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/X99%20Extreme6/?cat=CPU

[watercooled]

Cheers. I suppose it makes sense since they're pin-compatible and the 1150 Xeons work on desktop boards too...

Also found this: http://news.softpedia.com/news/ASUS-...s-457954.shtml

[semo]

These work in consumer X99 boards, if you want a gaming rig with an 18-core CPU

I thought that games don't like lots of slow cores. Server CPUs are optimized for services rather than an good/fast desktop experience (latency is one issue). Good enough if you need a workstation for work which you can then use for gaming but I wouldn't buy a Xeon purely for gaming.

[shaithis]

I thought that games don't like lots of slow cores. Server CPUs are optimized for services rather than an good/fast desktop experience (latency is one issue). Good enough if you need a workstation for work which you can then use for gaming but I wouldn't buy a Xeon purely for gaming.

They never used to be but that is changing pretty fast.

[Spiralking]

loool... 18 cores... I'm sure we'll scoff at this in the future but this is a liberating jump in power...

[Tattysnuc]

With having so many cores, you'd need to use an OS that can support/access them also.


edit:
Windows 8 Pro supports a maximum of 2 physical CPUs and the standard version of Windows 8 just one. In total, up to 32 logical processors are supported in 32-bit versions of Windows 8, while up to 256 logical processors are supported in 64-bit versions.

lummy. Wonder how these things bench!

[CampGareth]

I thought that games don't like lots of slow cores. Server CPUs are optimized for services rather than an good/fast desktop experience (latency is one issue). Good enough if you need a workstation for work which you can then use for gaming but I wouldn't buy a Xeon purely for gaming.

Eeh, games aren't that CPU intensive anyway it seems, I know the tests are old but bit-tech tried to find out how many cores games needed back in 2010 using things like Crysis 1 and BFBC2, turns out that more than 2 cores back then was almost a waste. Same again with BF3, you can cut your CPU down to 2 cores and it's fine, or massively slow down your 4 cores and be fine.

Bottom line for games is if you want to use a Xeon for them, make sure they've got good multiprocessor support and they'll work just fine.

If however you're doing a task that needs heavy processing (in my case month-long video encodes) these Xeons are no-brainers, though watch for maximum thread scaling (24 for x264 last I checked)

[philipmathews]

I wonder if you if the Ivy bridge platform will now drop in price.