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Temptation
- Thread starter doodab
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Xeons only really needed when one requires/can take advantage of:
1) ECC memory of much higher capacities (in new SKA servers we use 384 GB RAM as standard) than desktop CPUs allow (mainly due to intentional crippling)
2) multi socket operation to have more cores/memory
High clocked Xeons with lots of cores are very expensive - Intel has been increasing prices in the last few years to make up for shortfall in desktop sales.
New Xeons should be launched soon (Q3), Ivy Bridge-EP's - http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ivy-Bridge-EP-Xeon-E5-CPUs-Exposed-Prematurely-360889.shtml
There are already single socket Haswell based ones, but they are only quads for single sockets.
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Be sure to post the full spec if you assemble a high-end kick-ass desktop.
For a start, I'd like to know where to get an extra large case (*), so I don't have to poke about like a surgeon doing keyhole surgery!
(*) Nothing fancy with glowing neon etc, just longer and wider than usual.
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Well, I was thinking of putting a Xeon E5-26 something into a single socket motherboard and reusing an existing case. If I was looking for a big case I'd probably go for one of the supermicro ones, they are quite pricey though.
I think the 6 core i7 is probably a better bet, it's clocked a lot faster so works out about the same. I don't really need it now though, so I will probably wait and see what the next generation i7s look like.
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