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Intel Xeon E5-2637 Question

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Can anyone make sense of this thing?

 

For £700 or $1,100 you get this :-

 

3.0GHz / 3.5GHz Turbo

Dual Core

5MB L3 Cache

 

To me it seems like a waste of silicon (just like the Celerons) since it is an 8 core die with 20MB of cache.

 

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/intel-xeon-e5-2637-s2011-sandy-bridge-dual-core-30ghz-5mb-cache-80w-oem

 

This thing has me confused so if anyone knows why this exists then it would be greatly appreciated.

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apparently its for servers

 

It is for servers but I don't understand why it costs so much, this is half of the cost of that and it comes with 15MB of cache and 6 cores though

 

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/intel-xeon-e5-2620-s2011-sandy-bridge-six-core-20ghz-15mb-cache-95w-retail

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Intel is so smart that they can overprice it so much!

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It is for servers but I don't understand why it costs so much, this is half of the cost of that and it comes with 15MB of cache and 6 cores though

 

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/intel-xeon-e5-2620-s2011-sandy-bridge-six-core-20ghz-15mb-cache-95w-retail

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This is the dumbest thing i have ever seen really. 

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Maybe it has some specialist use but to be honest I've never seen anything like that, just a waste in my opinion

 

Also for £200 more you can get an 8 core E5

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Maybe it has some specialist use but to be honest I've never seen anything like that, just a waste in my opinion

 

Also for £200 more you can get an 8 core E5

They apparently didn't think this one out ;)

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That is a strange one. I thought at first that it might be a listing error but having had a hunt around it looks about right. 

There will be a reason behind this and it will have a specialist application for sure. Server-grade kit is always more expensive but this is something else! 

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E5-2xxx means it can be used in dual-CPU systems.  The system bus is the expensive part, since it needs to be really beefy compared to standard CPUs to allow for communication between two CPUs.

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