Anyone in this thread upgraded from Haswell-E to Broadwell-E? I've got an X99 motherboard collecting dust and trying to decide between the two lineups. I really would like to go 8-core, but due to cost may have to stay at 6-core.
I'm mostly looking at running several VMs in place of my physical servers (a couple i3 machines and an i5 machine). Good idea? Bad idea? Worth it?
Hey guys. I purchased a Xeon E5-1650 v4 (Xeon equivalent of the i7-6850K - I'm not overclocking and it was $50 cheaper than the i7). I just started to do some preliminary thermal testing with Prime95 and noticed that the clock drops 100MHz below the advertised base the second I launch the stress test. Is this an AVX offset?
Also, I have it running on an Asus X99-M WS, but this is the first Asus board I've had in a while and I'm not familiar with their BIOS. Does enabling XMP via AI Overclock Tuner do anything beyond just enabling the XMP RAM profile? It seems a weird place to have the setting.
If you're looking to just run some VMs, I'd look at Xeon models to save some money (assuming your board supports them).
I am joining the club today guys. I went ahead and pulled the trigger finally. They had a killer deal I couldn't pass up at newegg for the Asrock Taichi x99 motherboard for $219 shipped plus $33.33 off with promo code "EMCFEFT27" incase anyone else wants to snag one up before they are all gone.And on top of the $33.33 off they have a $20 mail in rebate. I also got 16gb 4x4gb of Crucial Ballistix DDR4 2400. Its the Pure white ram and heat sink kit. All thats left now is to hunt down a CPU.
Right now I am using a 8c/16t E5-2670 SR0XK cpu on a X79 motherboard overclocked to 3.6Ghz turbo.So I would be wanting something that can out pace what I am using right now.Any thoughts what would work best as a CPU upgrade for me? Thanks
Thanks for the fast reply. I think I will snag a 6800k as that seems like the sweet spot these days?
How are the 8 and 10 core Xeons running on these x99 motherboards or shouldn't I waist my time? I heard something like the 6 core E5-1650 v4 were pretty good too and are supposed to be unlocked maybe? I'm gonna go do some research and googling on the subject to see what I can come up with.
Na the unlocked thing isn't that super important to me but being a cheapskate that I am and getting lots of cores for as little as possible is lol.Oh boy just got my tracking info from Newegg as I was typing this, jeez cant believe it took them 24 hours to package my item for shipping. Usually I order something in the morning and it ships later that night. Ya I know I am being impatient,I am just excited to get a new next gen build going.Although I did just have a i7 6700k for a little over a week and a half and it was pretty sweet but had to part with it cause my kids needed a new pc for school work sorry had to vent.. Anyways I am torn between the 2 6800k and 6850k. Is there any real world difference?
I am guessing the 6800k has 28 pci lanes and the 6850k has more? That is one thing that does matters to me. The more lanes the better!!
Yea, I understand that you are. I just spent weeks looking into it and asked several people with both and was told it was would be fine. Someone provided that picture to me, it wasn't what I was going by, just something extra.
I guess I'll find out the hard way