No IHS solder. Whoever buys this better have local firefighter department on speed dial and fire extinguisher within arms reach.
arisindulens
Will we need an industrial cooler for this thing?
fishclaspers
Lol up to 68 "platform" PCIe lanes, 24 on the PCH. Do they think that that's 4 more than the AMD threadripper, or do they think that people who buy these systems are going to be dumb yokels.
magottyk
Intel are you kidding?
+ 4000 dollars wtf
UserUser
Hi. Dont forget to edit the title since you swapped the 7 and 1, thus confusing me until I noticed it was a typo
MajWinters
Nuts!, from an American general. Nuts!!!
Anthonylopez-rdnr
its a Xeon, not a consumer CPU, also around $4000 + VAT alegedly... so even if its faster then the current amd threadripper 2990wx its not worth it... i had and have Intel CPU in my pc since my firts pc. But at this point if i would buy a pc, would go with AMD.
mrdot
As someone pointed out below Xeon's aren't consumer CPUs. I have them running our VMWare estate at work for example. "Content creation" is not the target market.
IntrinsicPalomides
And remember, this is with 128 PCIe lanes.
ajc-thei
Great for CAD and animation but overkill for gaming.
davidjenkins
They only sell in 1000 batches. So the price is 3000 each but that's x1000.
Reddoguk
Since I can do the same thing with AMD threadripper for half the price, Intel would have to pay me to buy that (Overpriced) processor. They still don't get it? My prediction is that Intel will continually lose market share because of pricing schemes. They have been robbing consumers for many years!
musinclind
Only stupids will buy this than going with high end thread ripper
hareeshkumar
4000$???? But can it run crysis in 7+ virtualized Monitor????
godot
to use their own words: repurposed server CPU ...
sharktooh
what a waste for something that isn't even as good as the AMD cpu
foltarz
What a joke, knee-jerk reaction, product. Not close to the "consumer 5GHz 28 core" it was first told to be, crazy expensive, basically just a re-branded Xeon that eats into their own market and still not close to offering what the CPU's they tried to compete with offer for a fraction of the cost. Simply put, this product should not exist in the pro/consumer space.
One question arises from this entire debacle... who calls the shots over at Intel and does NOONE vet the ideas and come with critical input?
DanielLiljeberg
Should I buy a car or some shit arse old tech....desperate for success intel chip?
