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What's the LET consensus on E7?
http://ark.intel.com/products/84685/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E7-8890-v3-45M-Cache-2_50-GHz
Is anyone using it? Pros/Cons?
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LET look at it often based on Cores. 1 CPU is RRP $7000. For that you can get 3-4 Dual E5 nodes off ebay. Which has a lot more cores in total
E7 is very rare - You basically only use them if you have a very special usage case (like 3way+ CPU mirroring for military and financial setups, E5 only does 1+1 while E7 would do up to 1+7) or you, due to SW limitation, need 288 2.5Ghz cores with 12TB RAM (8x1.5TB) in a single machine.
For this ability you pay a HIGH premium - per benchmark point E7 is extremely expensive compared to even E5 and the surrounding HW (MB, case, RAM) is not cheap either.
deadbeef , what are you upto?
are you talking with tricky again.
wut?
ignore me, i was trying to be funny looks like i need a smack to be quite today.
I've only really seen it used when a company relies on certain software that needs to be run on one machine. It doesn't make sense for most people. I have seen some E7's on Dell Outlet if you want one though
I read the title as "What's the LET consensus on LET?" at first!
Happen to oblige.
A friend of mine is doing a review of a quad 8890 v3
ouch, that hurts... so bad ... BIRDIE numnum