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I saw a listing of Intel Xeon E5-2699 V4 engineering samples on ebay with A1 stepping. I never bought ES cpus. Does any one have some experience with ES cpus and is it worth the risk? 

 

By the way I'm planning on getting two of these for an office workstation for scientific simulation purposes. So nothing critical and if a simulation crashes every now and then, not a big deal.

 

 

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I think the only difference between ES and normal chips is that ES are cherry picked for reviewers and such so that the stability is nice and all. That and they don't have serial numbers or something.

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4 minutes ago, Ahmad Alothman said:

I saw a listing of Intel Xeon E5-2699 V4 engineering samples on ebay with A1 stepping. I never bought ES cpus. Does any one have some experience with ES cpus and is it worth the risk? 

 

By the way I'm planning on getting two of these for an office workstation for scientific simulation purposes. So nothing critical and if a simulation crashes every now and then, not a big deal.

 

 

That's interesting that it's only $1k. I seem to recall that the e5-2699 v3 retailed for about $4500. As for buying an ES, should be fine as it was sent out for testing, right? So that means it has to be stable enough to run tests. Why don't you just wait for the v4 to officially drop, or get a used v3?

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3 minutes ago, Hackentosher said:

That's interesting that it's only $1k. I seem to recall that the e5-2699 v3 retailed for about $4500. As for buying an ES, should be fine as it was sent out for testing, right? So that means it has to be stable enough to run tests. Why don't you just wait for the v4 to officially drop, or get a used v3?

A used E5-2699 V3, in most cases, is at least $2000 and I really need all this processing power right now but I'm a little worried that the cpu ends up not being usable.

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Good rating I guess, go for it and if it doesn't work, hope ebay backs you go.

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17 minutes ago, byalexandr said:

I think the only difference between ES and normal chips is that ES are cherry picked for reviewers and such so that the stability is nice and all. That and they don't have serial numbers or something.

Are you sure, because "Engineering Sample" (ES) doesn't make it sound like it's a review sample.

I would say it's a semi finalized CPU that still has bugs to be fixed before it is put into production.

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12 minutes ago, Shahnewaz said:

Are you sure, because "Engineering Sample" (ES) doesn't make it sound like it's a review sample.

I would say it's a semi finalized CPU that still has bugs to be fixed before it is put into production.

There are two kinds of ES cpus

Review CPUs

And testing CPUs.

Thats that. If you need to get in touch chances are you can find someone that knows me that can get in touch.

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1 hour ago, Ahmad Alothman said:

I saw a listing of Intel Xeon E5-2699 V4 engineering samples on ebay with A1 stepping. I never bought ES cpus. Does any one have some experience with ES cpus and is it worth the risk? 

 

By the way I'm planning on getting two of these for an office workstation for scientific simulation purposes. So nothing critical and if a simulation crashes every now and then, not a big deal.

 

 

I've bought a Xeon E5-2695V3 a year ago for $600 (Good price at the time) and I've had no issues since. However, do note that you might not luck out with the ES chips. They're the ones that get abused to hell to certify the retail units. You also might have some features disabled or notice the CPU doing weird things. Mine's stable, but your luck varies. Also, the earlier the stepping, the higher chance of there being unfixed bugs present in the CPU. That being said though, I'm probably going to temp fate again and pick up two broadwell Xeon CPUs (My wallet says no though...but my 2500K says yes (Struggling to keep up with the workload that I do)).

 

However, if this is being used in a actual production environment with mission critical servers, do not tempt fate and buy the retail Xeons.

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4 hours ago, scottyseng said:

I've bought a Xeon E5-2695V3 a year ago for $600 (Good price at the time) and I've had no issues since. However, do note that you might not luck out with the ES chips. They're the ones that get abused to hell to certify the retail units. You also might have some features disabled or notice the CPU doing weird things. Mine's stable, but your luck varies. Also, the earlier the stepping, the higher chance of there being unfixed bugs present in the CPU. That being said though, I'm probably going to temp fate again and pick up two broadwell Xeon CPUs (My wallet says no though...but my 2500K says yes (Struggling to keep up with the workload that I do)).

 

However, if this is being used in a actual production environment with mission critical servers, do not tempt fate and buy the retail Xeons.

What is the stepping on your E5-2695V3?

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27 minutes ago, Ahmad Alothman said:

What is the stepping on your E5-2695V3?

See attached image. I have the CPU on a SuperMicro motherboard with server DDR4 (2 x 16GB) ECC RAM.

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5 hours ago, scottyseng said:

See attached image. I have the CPU on a SuperMicro motherboard with server DDR4 (2 x 16GB) ECC RAM.

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7 hours ago, Ahmad Alothman said:

I saw a listing of Intel Xeon E5-2699 V4 engineering samples on ebay with A1 stepping. I never bought ES cpus. Does any one have some experience with ES cpus and is it worth the risk? 

 

By the way I'm planning on getting two of these for an office workstation for scientific simulation purposes. So nothing critical and if a simulation crashes every now and then, not a big deal.

 

 

One risk is that the cpu is preproduction so the cpu could have issues with stability, and other issues reducing the lifetime of the cpu. Intel will not have any warranties, or help with any issues with the cpu as they aren't supposed to be sold to anyone.

 

Also these are still the property of Intel and any sale of these are illegal.

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/processors/000005719.html

 

If it is for scientific simulations at a workplace just buy them new it isn't worth the risk, one wrong number in a simulation could end up very badly.

 

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