Time for a cruncher upgrade...

**=[PULSAR]=** · 11-13-2013, 01:38 PM

So I went with a pair of these

E7-2870

Processor Number E7-2870
# of Cores 10
# of Threads 20
Clock Speed 2.4 GHz

**jeanguy2** · 11-13-2013, 01:59 PM

Originally Posted by =[PULSAR]=

So I went with a pair of these

Sure hope that you got them on sale.... see this link :
http://www.hookbag.ca/product/H3C06R...-e72870--cisco

Wishful thinking...!!!

**NKrader** · 11-13-2013, 04:11 PM

worth looking this thread, as your crunchers are almost always as crazy as moviemans!

grats on the crazy horsepower

**=[PULSAR]=** · 11-13-2013, 05:29 PM

Thanks haha it's hard to compete with Dave I usually just get the leftovers

**D_A** · 11-13-2013, 05:43 PM

Dave's leftovers are nothing to be sneezed at ... unless you mean his ex. Then he might be handing you the pepper.

**Movieman** · 11-13-2013, 09:29 PM

Sockets Supported LGA1567

**NKrader** · 11-14-2013, 04:51 PM

Originally Posted by =[PULSAR]=

Thanks haha it's hard to compete with Dave I usually just get the leftovers

until you realize that I use leftovers that have been passed around so many times you cant even remember everyone :P

**=[PULSAR]=** · 11-14-2013, 07:23 PM

Originally Posted by Movieman

Sockets Supported LGA1567

I thought I had a board lined up for a few hundred dollars but it fell through

Got to return the chips and desperately looking for a well priced 2011 IvyBridge. In the mean time, going to finish my case build for the SR-2.

**Movieman** · 11-14-2013, 07:28 PM

Originally Posted by =[PULSAR]=

I thought I had a board lined up for a few hundred dollars but it fell through

Got to return the chips and desperately looking for a well priced 2011 IvyBridge. In the mean time, going to finish my case build for the SR-2.

Well priced and Ivy Bridge are tough to put in the same sentence..
YGPM

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