Wow I had never heard of these chips! I built a dual-socket system once with the 6-core x5690s and I thought thats as high as it went! There is one other RARE cpu to check out... the Xeon X5698. It was an insane dual core that clocked all the way up to 4.4 Ghz! In 2010! I have seen these only a few times in my life, they are apparently used for stock trading and Intel didnt even publish a spec page as it was so rare and specialized! Awesome video btw, keep up the great work 👍
Oh man i heard about the x5698. Mythical cpu! Used for trading. Also thank you for the feedback. Just bought a x58 kit with a i7 975 and I will try to post a video about this 1000$ cpu.
I'm still running a X5670 6c/12t @ 4.4GHz in my main PC but I already have a X299 system with an i9-10900X waiting to replace the old X58 rig. The X5698 was released in 2011 after Sandy Bridge CPUs like the i7-2600K were already released, so in single core performance the X5698 never was the fastest one. Though for the intended market of the X5698 the mainstream consumer i7-2600K wouldn't have been an option due to the required reliability. In clockspeed even the first AMD Bulldozer CPUs released later in 2011 didn't quite match the X5698, and Bulldozer would have needed even higher clocks to match the X5698 in single core performance. Piledriver FX-9370 and FX-9590 were probably the first CPUs to surpass the X5698 in stock clockspeed in July 2013
All Westmere CPUs are 32nm, 45nm was used for the older Nehalem CPUs like the i7-920 you mentioned. Also Westmere was first released for LGA1366 in 2010 and for LGA1567 in 2011. Westmere is a die-shrink of Nehalem (just like how Ivy Bridge is a die-shrink of Sandy Bridge), but for some reason Intel didn't brand them as a new generation, so i7-900 series has a mix of 4c/8t 45nm Nehalem and 6c/12t 32nm Westmere.
I have a Fujitsu RX600S6 and it has four E7-4820 (each 8 cores and 16 threads). It‘s not much faster than a i7 4790k OC‘d to 4.7Ghz but it draws a lot more power. 500W on idle.
@@averyoldTH-camuser I mean, the power draw is definetly the biggest factor, especially when it comes to something that will be on 24/7. I didn't need that much power altho it was nice having it and messing around. I'd much rather have a Ryzen 5 5600x and 64GB of RAM than that monster and 224GB of RAM. I couldn't utilize that much RAM even if I wanted to. I ran a mediaserver, a Minecraft server and Pi-Hole on it, so unless I ran something that could utilize that much power, I had no use for it which is the reason I sold it. Got a smaller server with LGA2011. Spec'd it out with the remaining RAM but even that draws 300W-ish on idle so it's off most of the time. I have a Android Box running Pi-Hole and that's basically the only thing I have running 24/7. Sad that I got rid of it but the power bill was enormous.
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Wow I had never heard of these chips! I built a dual-socket system once with the 6-core x5690s and I thought thats as high as it went!
There is one other RARE cpu to check out... the Xeon X5698. It was an insane dual core that clocked all the way up to 4.4 Ghz! In 2010! I have seen these only a few times in my life, they are apparently used for stock trading and Intel didnt even publish a spec page as it was so rare and specialized!
Awesome video btw, keep up the great work 👍
Oh man i heard about the x5698. Mythical cpu! Used for trading. Also thank you for the feedback. Just bought a x58 kit with a i7 975 and I will try to post a video about this 1000$ cpu.
I'm still running a X5670 6c/12t @ 4.4GHz in my main PC but I already have a X299 system with an i9-10900X waiting to replace the old X58 rig.
The X5698 was released in 2011 after Sandy Bridge CPUs like the i7-2600K were already released, so in single core performance the X5698 never was the fastest one. Though for the intended market of the X5698 the mainstream consumer i7-2600K wouldn't have been an option due to the required reliability.
In clockspeed even the first AMD Bulldozer CPUs released later in 2011 didn't quite match the X5698, and Bulldozer would have needed even higher clocks to match the X5698 in single core performance. Piledriver FX-9370 and FX-9590 were probably the first CPUs to surpass the X5698 in stock clockspeed in July 2013
All Westmere CPUs are 32nm, 45nm was used for the older Nehalem CPUs like the i7-920 you mentioned. Also Westmere was first released for LGA1366 in 2010 and for LGA1567 in 2011.
Westmere is a die-shrink of Nehalem (just like how Ivy Bridge is a die-shrink of Sandy Bridge), but for some reason Intel didn't brand them as a new generation, so i7-900 series has a mix of 4c/8t 45nm Nehalem and 6c/12t 32nm Westmere.
Yessir. That is correct! Thanks for the input and for the clarification!
This socket is really rare and special
All processors with this socket is over $1xxx
Actually, there are some cpus that are somewhat cheap. The only real problem is the motherboards for them, as the can get real expensive real fast.
@@HardwareShenanigans yes truee
So fantastic to find out about those long lost CPU line in the past
awsome video !!!!!!!
Thanks a lot. Extreme Overclocking and X99 review coming up.
You need a dell poweredge R910, they give you an entire server for cheap
I have one with 4 E7-8870's
Who are 'they' :)?
@@HardwareShenanigans sorry i was tired and forgot the obvious info
2:29 Actually, the E7-88XX cpu's can work together in a configuration of 8 for 80 cores 160 threads.
Yooooo. That is insane! Thanks for the info and for the comment.
I have a Fujitsu RX600S6 and it has four E7-4820 (each 8 cores and 16 threads). It‘s not much faster than a i7 4790k OC‘d to 4.7Ghz but it draws a lot more power. 500W on idle.
500 on idle???? WOW! Nice specs btw!
Oh that's why people don't use them and they are extremely rare
@@averyoldTH-camuser I mean, the power draw is definetly the biggest factor, especially when it comes to something that will be on 24/7. I didn't need that much power altho it was nice having it and messing around. I'd much rather have a Ryzen 5 5600x and 64GB of RAM than that monster and 224GB of RAM. I couldn't utilize that much RAM even if I wanted to. I ran a mediaserver, a Minecraft server and Pi-Hole on it, so unless I ran something that could utilize that much power, I had no use for it which is the reason I sold it. Got a smaller server with LGA2011. Spec'd it out with the remaining RAM but even that draws 300W-ish on idle so it's off most of the time. I have a Android Box running Pi-Hole and that's basically the only thing I have running 24/7. Sad that I got rid of it but the power bill was enormous.
bro now those same quad socket motherboards are just over 60 dollars and the cpus are so cheap they come in bundles of 4 or 6 for 20 dollars total.
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Not really
They are not even available online, they are extremely rare
I said for these exactly LGA1567 socket CPUs and motherboard
you should look at ebay for cpus, they tend to be cheaper there.