Quote Originally Posted by Movieman View Post
I was teasing on that line about the "first born" meaning those E5-2697 12 cores were VERY hard to find.
Now as to calling a 10 core "mid range" I agree, it sounds funny to say it but when you compare the product line using a 10 core at a max to 2900MHz to a 12 core at 3000MHz iit is pretty much "mid range"
The E5-2697V2 is easy to find...Newegg, and everyone else has plenty...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...25&Tpk=e5-2697

Oh...if only the E5-2697V2 were unlocked...I'd have a box of five of them in my hands faster than you can blink...$14k worth of processors...yummy...