New Intel Chips

[PP Mguire]

Intel is sampling the Xeon X5690 and is readying the release of the 990x for Q4. I wonder who will get ahold of these chips first

[movieman]

Originally Posted by PP Mguire

Intel is sampling the Xeon X5690 and is readying the release of the 990x for Q4. I wonder who will get ahold of these chips first

[hiwa]

No dubt movieman already playing dual x5690 with
his sr2.

[movieman]

Originally Posted by hiwa

No dubt movieman already playing dual x5690 with
his sr2.

Moi?

X5690 same as X5680, just one more multi.
Behaves the same at same speeds and B1 stepping..
Honestly, no real advantage for anyone on air or water but for LN2 I think there's another 200MHz to be got over the X5680's just due to the extra multi(26/27 on turbo)
Now there's soem X5675's coming out next February with a 23 multi but a 2x turbo for all cores.. Yea, essentially equal to the X5680's..
I tried a pair of those also for 2 days before I had to return them.
Nice chips for air..

[hiwa]

oh i thought maybe they are B2 oki