Socket 1567 Xeon Nehalem-EX

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Another wide CPU, huh?
Interesting, not all the elements are under the heat spreader...

that is beckton, paper launch on 30 March and availability expected somewhere in June.

The elements under the heat spreader are fb buffers, while they used to have fbdimm they now moved the buffers to the mobo to reduce the dimm cost and can work with legacy Rdimm ddr3. But now you get a very expensive mobo and some additional HOT spots as a trade off for some additional RAM features.

price will decide if this system will shine or not.

So if I do the math right, you're saying that 256GB = 100W. So if they shut down the rest of the memory, that would be 800W for CPUs, fans, power and a drive or two?

Wow, that is a power-hungry CPU.

they use max pc8500 ddr3 rdimm which consumes about 2.1W idle and 3.5W high load no LP, we don't know the amount of dimms in there and we have no idea what the buffers will consume, although my guess is about 4-5W idle and upto 8-10W load looking at those heatsinks. In the end whatever we try to figure out what exactly remains on or off, the fact indeed remains that there is still a lot of power consumed, on a not so high loaded system