Need purchase advice! ES SAMPLE XEON CPU

[Sabled]

I am looking for two Intel Xeon E5-26XX v2 chips for the best value for money from this list, any other idea's are welcome too but this ebay vendor seems to be the cheapest.

 

Thinking about going with the Xeon 2680 v2 ES, the board i have is the Intel S2600G server board.

. : http://www.ebay.nl/sch/m.html?_odkw=&_ssn=xtrememicro&_armrs=1&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=xeon+v2&_sacat=0

 

I have basic knowledge of ES chips but any advice on them is welcome. 

 

What would you buy and why?

[TheRandomness]

An ES is just an early production sample of the CPU stated. It *might* have issues but should be fine. 

[Sabled]

Yeah but they should be good for value for money right?

[harrynowl]

I had a 10 core ivy-e ES. It was supposed to be a 2670V2 but sadly i recieved the wrong one which was around 1.6GHz.. other than being a bit slow it worked OK.

[SLAYR]

14 minutes ago, Sabled said:

Yeah but they should be good for value for money right?

They are illegal to sell, intel does not provide any support for them, they are property of Intel, and certain samples are more prone to failure so research what issues that specific model chip may have.

 

if you are looking for a lga 2011 chip see about the e5 2670 , make sure it is compatible with your motherboard, but a pair can be bought for $100USD( 90-100 euros) for non-ES cpus, and will have the multithreaded performance of a 5960x.

[Sabled]

18 minutes ago, SLAYR said:

They are illegal to sell, intel does not provide any support for them, they are property of Intel, and certain samples are more prone to failure so research what issues that specific model chip may have.

 

if you are looking for a lga 2011 chip see about the e5 2670 , make sure it is compatible with your motherboard, but a pair can be bought for $100USD( 90-100 euros) for non-ES cpus, and will have the multithreaded performance of a 5960x.

I heard these 2670 v1 chips were performing worse than ES v2 chips. Do you really think its better value for money compared to the 2680 v2 ES? 2680 v2 has 8 cores turbo to 3.4 ghz ( and has unlocked multiplier).

[Dark]

For home use, ES chips are fine, especially when you consider the cost savings.

[Sabled]

11 minutes ago, Dark said:

For home use, ES chips are fine, especially when you consider the cost savings.

Do you think the xeon 2680 v2 ES is better than the  AMD FX-8350 ?

 

[Dark]

6 minutes ago, Sabled said:

Do you think the xeon 2680 v2 ES is better than the  AMD FX-8350 ?

 

Absolutely.

[Sabled]

If you could check this out http://www.ebay.nl/itm/Intel-Xeon-E5-2680-V2-ES-2-8hz-25MB-L3-8-Core-Max-Turbo-3-4Ghz-130W-CPU-/401120844468?hash=item5d64aa5ab4:g:418AAOSwr0ZXNtoq  

 

What would be a comparable processor you think?

[SLAYR]

14 minutes ago, Sabled said:

If you could check this out http://www.ebay.nl/itm/Intel-Xeon-E5-2680-V2-ES-2-8hz-25MB-L3-8-Core-Max-Turbo-3-4Ghz-130W-CPU-/401120844468?hash=item5d64aa5ab4:g:418AAOSwr0ZXNtoq  

 

What would be a comparable processor you think?

What ever that is it isn't a 2680v2 the specs don't match up, as a real 2820v2 has 10 cores, and a 3.6GHz turbo.

 

http://ark.intel.com/m/products/75277/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2680-v2-25M-Cache-2_80-GHz

 

Edit: and a 115w tdp.

[Sabled]

1 minute ago, SLAYR said:

What ever that is it isn't a 2680v2 the specs don't match up, as a real 2820v2 has 10 cores, and a 3.6GHz turbo.

 

http://ark.intel.com/m/products/75277/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2680-v2-25M-Cache-2_80-GHz

Thanks for the concern. I am not worried about it being a fake, i've researched this and came to the same conclusion as you have, the data doesn't match up. 

But the reason for this is because these are ES chips, not consumer chips. Thats why im asking advice, because no one really benchmarks these chips.

[SLAYR]

10 minutes ago, Sabled said:

Thanks for the concern. I am not worried about it being a fake, i've researched this and came to the same conclusion as you have, the data doesn't match up. 

But the reason for this is because these are ES chips, not consumer chips. Thats why im asking advice, because no one really benchmarks these chips.

Even for es chips they usually do match up to their consumer counterparts, and they aren't benchmarked because they are illegal to sell, and only given out to companies designing products that correspond to that chip like motherboards, and also becaue they do march their production counterparts.

 

If you want to avoid fakes, and broken chips you have to go for the production chips, a lot of the es cpus are sold from really sketchy sellers, and if they do accept returns, shipping internationally most likely back to china is really expensive.

[Sabled]

2 minutes ago, SLAYR said:

Even for es chips they usually do match up to their consumer counterparts, and they aren't benchmarked because they are illegal to sell, and only given out to companies designing products that correspond to that chip like motherboards, and also becaue they do march their production counterparts.

 

If you want to avoid fakes, and broken chips you have to go for the production chips, a lot of the es cpus are sold from really sketchy sellers, and if they do accept returns, shipping internationally most likely back to china is really expensive.

Do you think an ebay seller like in the link i've provided would sell fake chips? 50k feedback and numerous random feedback on their xeon chips saying its good?