Tuesday, January 10th 2012
Xeon E5-2670 Seen Running on ASUS Rampage IV Gene
Imagine if your micro-ATX box that looks like you borrowed it from your mom and pop could crush every other machine twice or thrice its size, at the LAN party. That's possible when you run an Intel Xeon E5-2670 processor paired with ASUS Rampage IV Gene motherboard, as VR-Zone found out. Based on the Sandy Bridge-EP silicon the Xeon E5-2670 packs 8 cores, 16 threads enabled with HyperThreading, 8 x 256 KB L2 cache, and 20 MB shared L3 cache, and a quad-channel DDR3 IMC supporting up to 128 GB of RAM. ASUS managed to slip the right microcode into the BIOS running Rampage IV Gene, letting it run the chip. The Xeon E5-2670 will be clocked at 2.6 GHz, with a TDP of 115W. "Real men use real cores," go tell that to AMD.
Source:
VR-Zone
16 Comments on Xeon E5-2670 Seen Running on ASUS Rampage IV Gene
Maybe when LGA 2011 will have 6 cores on the first two SKUs and 8 cores on the extreme chip then the scenario will be more plausible.
There's no reason, for now, to offer 6 cores on the mainstream platform, it would kill the already hard to justify LGA2011, it has had more sense back when the enthustiast platform launched before the mainstream.
1)Intel Xeon Sandy Bridge ES 8/16 Core 20MB 2.3 Ghz (Turbo 2.5 Ghz) B0-Stepping
2)Intel Xeon Sandy Bridge ES 8/16 Core 20MB 3.1 Ghz (Turbo 3.4 Ghz) C0-Stepping
Both are not overclockable. C0-Stepping Benches come on the weekend.
Still the 8c/16t @ 3,4 looks rather tasty :O
thank you for that very useful summary of B0 steppings, it helped me a lot. Can you please make similar sum of the C0 (or newer) steppings? Now I have the oppurtinity to get a QB7U ES CPU but besides that it is a 2,40GHz i dont know nothing about it and was unable to find anything even on google. QB7 would probably mean a C0, like yours QB7R, but i dont even know how many cores it has. :confused:
Tested E5-2687w
Hey guys im about to buy a pair of Sandy Bridge-E QB7V ES 2.00GHz, Would anyone know if these are 6 or 8 core? There is no info online an would stepping be C1 ?