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OMG OMG your box is going to go up in flames!!! It's so unsafe to overclock your Xeons!!!! This is why Intel so kindly protects us by hardlocking them!!! The world is in grave danger with this...

What a load of bull...Intel takes away all the features it doesn't want you to have...like ECC support for nearly all consumer chips, HT (for quite a few models), dual CPU capability for all unlocked...

It's the stupid crap that Intel pulls on a regular basis that's frustrating. Like the disabling of vPro and TXT on K model chips...no reason to do so. The purile restricting of ECC support to Xeon...

When choosing your next CPU, folks, remember how Intel has treated us, the enthusiast (mainstream and high end), over these last 10 years and that any improvement that Intel is making is because it's...

And that's fine...said business would pay for a whole new chip to get that 200MHz, even if the chips were unlocked because the system that the chip is installed in wouldn't be able to overclock the...

The socket used for Naples is similar to LGA3647 (as some heatsinks will be interchangable between Naples socket and Intel's LGA3647). LGA3647 can pull 260W (using current Phi processors), so it's...

Yep, they have no reason to lock them at all...except to restrict performance. If worse comes to worse, Naples ES should be unlocked...imagine four of those 32-core monsters churning away at 4GHz...

I don't think stability or longevity is really threatened in a workstation (which is what I read that the Gold is) if all someone is doing is merely using the headroom present in a chip. I have no...

Why do people automatically assume that if I want a chip to be unlocked that my primary purpose is gaming?? I want a chip that runs at it's full potential for all uses, not just gaming.

This would be a nice chip...except for the fact that it's guaranteed to be totally hard locked...:(

Came across this:

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/asrock-x99-extreme11-sata,27854.html

I womder if anyone at ASRock has heard of MiniSAS before....:rolleyes:

Because it's a fully locked down POS, whose top speed is a whopping 2.8GHz (all core turbo). Whoop-de-friggen-do...thanks Intel for screwing us over yet again...:mad:

I find it hard to get excited about an 8-core chip that we should have had an earlier version of three years ago. Also, waiting 4.5 years to go from the introduction of the 6-core i7-980x to the...

Boasting about a 6-core CPU...:ROTF:

It depends on how the board is implemented. The SR-2 uses PCI-E bridge chips and from what I understand doesn't properly allocate the PCI-E lanes from both...

As you say, there is a power supply problem. The CPUs themselves seem capable of the higher speeds, but limitations with the power supply itself and with the VRMs on a server board that were never...

No, Intel has stopped support for their motherboards, except for bug fixes. They even refused to release a BIOS update to support IVY Bridge-E on their X79 boards last year.

The 5820K is the same chip as the 5930K, except that it's clocked a bit slower and 16 PCI-E lanes have been snipped, leaving it with only 24 (still better than the mainstream platform though).;)
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The full Haswell-EP lineup has snuck out...$4100 USD for the top chip...;)

http://www.chiploco.com/haswell-ep-e5-2600-v3-specs-35055/


Unfortunately, still no definitive word on if the top...

Often, it's people who can't afford the more expensive chips trying to make themselves feel better. They feel that if they can't have it, no one else should have it either. Other times, it's people...

Everyone's needs are different....what's one person's overkill is another person's underpowered piece of crap.;)

Could probably use more cowbell as well...:p:

All I can say that the new cards better have HDMI 2.0...there will be many highly annoyed people if it doesn't...;)

Yeah, especially considering that they could have easily given us an 8-core back at the end of 2011 when Sandy Bridge-E launched. It's been a very long wait...:(

Hopefully, the product of this...

Dave...I'm going to spontaneously combust if I don't get an update soon...;)

Don't make me start nagging...:p:

The CPU choices are pretty sad for this system. Very few 130W+ options, and no top performamce 130W 12 core option. The E5-4600 V2 refresh was really weak. If a person is going to spend big $$$ on...