MSI X99 motherboards now fully support Intel next-gen Broadwell-E processors
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Poor Tom
FYI, I got an infinite boot loop after flashing the X99S Krait bios. Tried twice with the same result. Even after getting out of it by clearing cmos and then just changing the boot order & saving resulted in infinite boot loop. Guess there is a price to pay for being first to offer support for new cpu's. Any one else have experience with this?
fantaskarsef
Sorry, wrong mainboard. But lately I've been a bit careful about BIOS versions and flashing, so probably wouldn't have tried it unless I got a new CPU 😉
primetime^
Thats one heck of a CINEBENCH R15 score. Over 3x times what my setup can manage...I bet its expensive with 44 threads on 1 cpu?:)
fantaskarsef
SuperAverage
This interests me, as I do some music and video stuffs, and the DPC latency of the 170 chipsets can cause issues with these tasks.
I still use my 4790k on a z87 chipset because of the very low DPC characteristics, and can't think spending a ton of money on the new 170 chipsets and future 8 core cpus that will cause issues.
The X99 chipsets have very similar DPC characteristics to the z87/z97 chipsets.
I'm just wondering how much an 8 core or 10 core broadwell-E will be.
I'm guessing these don't have unlocked multipliers?
geogan
https://www.scan.co.uk/products/intel-xeon-e5-2699-v4-s-2011-3-broadwell-ep-22-core-22ghz-36ghz-turbo-55mb-40-lane-96gt-s-qpi-145w-o
It is £3547.73 Inc VAT for the Xeon alone never mind the new X99 motherboard, memory, everything else to use it.
I only still have an X58 motherboard with a 6 core i7 970 which cost me €120 second hand.
My cinebench score is 738. That one was 2973.
So it is exactly only 4x as fast (€4,437.05 / €120) for 37 times the cost
So you could buy 4 x 970 for €480 for equivalent performance which is 9x times cheaper.
You could buy 37 x i970 CPUs for €4,437.05 for a total Cinebench performance of 27,306 (738 x 37) which is for same price over 9x faster than the single Xeon.
So which would make better sense if you are trying to render as many frames as possible per minute on render farm?
And my 970 cores run at 3.2Ghz instead of 2.2Ghz so gaming and 90% of other software is faster because they run on 1-4 cores only.
p.s. i know if left out cost of motherboards etc. for cheaper CPU to run... but still
jura11
SuperAverage
http://imgur.com/KuRMePP
I won't be using "another sound card" because mine "sound card" is a focusrite scarlett 18i 20, which is my recording interface as well.
As I said, no CURRENT problem, but also nothing with more than 4 cores for my machine.
the z170 will get 6, 8, and more core CPU's, which I want, but typically, their DPC latency times could pose problems for some of the work I do.
The X99, however, has DPC latency pretty consistent with my own machine, and while I was thinking of getting one with the Haswell E processors, the upgrade simply wasn't enough to spend that much money.
I'm hoping that perhaps THESE broadwell CPUs will be.
No, that's not what I'm saying. I CURRENTLY have very good DPC latency.
jura11