Intel ships 4.4 Ghz Westmere dual-cores.

[radaja]

these also might be good replacement for those who disable their cores for certain benches(SuperPi)?
this way they wont die like many gulfies tend to do when manually disabling cores

unless they die with one core disabled?

[killerxp100]

Its cool but has limited uses. Defiantly not for the common user.

[saaya]

So how much are they?
And where can I buy one?

[Aerwidh]

Nice clock speed on those things

[BababooeyHTJ]

where did i say quads dont help and overclocking is unneccessary?

I'm sorry that may not and probably wasn't you. There was a thread here with a handful of benches of a few games where overclocking did not make a difference at all. The general conciseness of most of the posters was along the lines of "We already knew that overclocking is meaningless for a gaming rig". I'm not even going to attempt to search gaming and overclocking here to find it. There is a good chance that you had never posted in the thread and I apologize.

[Johnny87au]

2x of these babys!! =yumm!

[saaya]

I'm sorry that may not and probably wasn't you. There was a thread here with a handful of benches of a few games where overclocking did not make a difference at all. The general conciseness of most of the posters was along the lines of "We already knew that overclocking is meaningless for a gaming rig". I'm not even going to attempt to search gaming and overclocking here to find it. There is a good chance that you had never posted in the thread and I apologize.

No problem
Depending on what game and what res you play at faster cpus really do not help though... pcgh had an article about this a while ago, showing that in a lot of games with high res faster cpus barely boost fps.

Sc2 def loves CPU clocks though, oh yes...

[DarthShader]

2x of these babys!! =yumm!

Overclocked SandyB would be still faster?

[saaya]

Overclocked SandyB would be still faster?

True, but if your on 1366 this makes more sense then getting a new board and CPU

[radaja]

2x of these babys!! =yumm!

True, but if your on 1366 this makes more sense then getting a new board and CPU

and even more sense if you own a SR2

[clayton]

I want a 4.4ghz Sandy Bridge Dualcore.

[Manicdan]

I want a 4.4ghz Sandy Bridge Dualcore.

with todays turbo features that should be included with any SB quad, they are almost there

[DarthShader]

True, but if your on 1366 this makes more sense then getting a new board and CPU

and even more sense if you own a SR2

Fair points, if you are not concerned about core count.

[eXa]

What the hell do you want dual cores in SR2 for? defies logic....

[STEvil]

These wont work in an SR-2 anyways, they dont have dual QPI buses.

[m^2]

Overclocked SandyB would be still faster?

Likely. But full of DRM crap.

[radaja]

What the hell do you want dual cores in SR2 for? defies logic....

i only said sr2 because he wanted 2 of them.but yea it would pointless for the SR2

These wont work in an SR-2 anyways, they dont have dual QPI buses.

according to this they do?
Intel’s Xeon X5698, the Fastest Processor to Date is soon to Ships

and this one too
Intel Ships Its Fastest Processor to Date, the 4.4GHz Xeon X5698

[STEvil]

guess I should have looked closer, my bad.

[ahu]

These might be useless for SR2 yes, but on my Tyan S7025 (similar board to SR2 but no OC option) two of these would make be the ultimate option for gaming.
I'm assuming there's no practical advantage having more than four cores in gaming use.

There's no mention of Turbo clocks and the the 1066 MHz DDR3 speed is a bit of a letdown though.

Any mention of pricing?

[eXa]

no... you're missing the point a little... SB would be much better than 2 of theese cpus.

So if you want them for gaming, sell your SR2, Tyan S7025 or whatever and get SB instead! Buying 2 of theese cpus for gaming is just silly.

[m^2]

no... you're missing the point a little... SB would be much better than 2 of theese cpus.

So if you want them for gaming, sell your SR2, Tyan S7025 or whatever and get SB instead! Buying 2 of theese cpus for gaming is just silly.

Do you claim that any single SB would match it in workloads that don't scale to more than 4 threads?

[Skratch]

Do you claim that any single SB would match it in workloads that don't scale to more than 4 threads?

most 2500k and 2600ks are doing over 4.7ghz all day.Im at 5ghz air cooled with closed case.

[Musho]

most 2500k and 2600ks are doing over 4.7ghz all day.Im at 5ghz air cooled with closed case.

Not to mention SB has a performance advantage over Westmere at the same clocks. So it wouldn't even take 4,4ghz on Sandybridge to match 2 of these. 4,4ghz should still be piss easy with Sandybridge though

[eXa]

^^ What they said!

[m^2]

most 2500k and 2600ks are doing over 4.7ghz all day.Im at 5ghz air cooled with closed case.

No, almost all do 3.3 and 3.4 ghz respectively.
So your comment is pure BS for people who don't use OCed PCs. And for the rest...did you try to OC a pair of X5698s, so we can judge if your post has any merit?