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Been waiting since the beginning of the year for this...gotta say i'm disappointed though :-\

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/cor ... ,3026.html

Considering that the 2600k is SO fast for the price ....when overclocked, reaching pretty much the same the render speeds of the current 980x at 1/3 of the price, I was hoping for more of a speed increase when it came to the 6 core version of sandy bridge (which looks to be barely faster than the 980x based on these prelims). Any thoughts on this? Am I jumping the gun on being disappointed when looking at it in terms of rendering power?

itsallgoode9 wrote: Am I jumping the gun on being disappointed when looking at it in terms of rendering power?

no.


i thought the same reading it the other day.. it is basically a 2600 with two more cores.

maybe the 4 channel memory controller can help in very complex/ram intensive situations.. but it will hardly pay out to invest so much in a single chip if in a rendernode.

on the other hand.. this makes amd release of zambezi a bit more interesting.. should come next month.

It's "only" a sandy bridge with two more (and up to 4 more) cores and a slightly faster memory controller... so it was expectable that it would be in the same range - core by core. But the real point of these chips is 2 or 4 more cores and the multi processor capability! ...and less power draw compared to a the last gen xeons.
I'll be waiting for the ne EVGA SR-3 (or how it will be called) which should be available maybe Q1 2012 and then i hope for an affordable clockable (k) 8 core

But hopefully the new AMD will not be as bad as expected...

numerobis wrote:But the real point of these chips is 2 or 4 more cores and the multi processor capability!

do you mean the extreme version will again (like skulltrail) run in dual cpu mode?

yes, there will be a clockable dual processor board for socket 2011 Xeons from EVGA like the SR-2 for socket 1366

http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=1132728

The only problem could be that only the biggest xeons get a free multi, like the 2600k... and it's no longer possible to raise the bclk

"...initial estimates from reliable sources suggest the platform should be capable of BCLK settings in excess of 155 MHz if you’re using a multiplier-locked processor."



http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/cor ... 026-5.html

sandy E has a different clock generator!

considering how huge of a leap in speed/price ration the sandy bridge was compared its previous chips, I was just expecting more once they came out with the 6 core version. Who knows, maybe i'll get one, but considering I already have a 980x I think my money is going to go with building render nodes using the 2600k. Much larger price/performance ratio imo