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So, I am finally pulling trigger on my rendering rig.

Still waiting for CPU.

Meanwhile, assembled the rig. I should have really gone for modular PSU. I was thinking the case would have enough space behind the mobo to hide the cables but nope. I couldn't even get the main power cable behind the mobo tray. The case will have only one front fan and CPU fan. I am still undecided on GPU, so I left the GPU power cable loose for now.

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CPU was in mailbox at my work today. Yay.

I will boot the rig up tonight by using my main rig's 760. Never had 14c/28t stuff at my disposal before. I am kinda excited how much time I will save with this thing.
 
I am in awe.

As far as I can see, this is indeed OEM (not ES) CPU. The CPU looks battered but functions fine. It's hard to see all the scratches in camera though.

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Since I had no spare GPU, I took my 760 from my i7 rig.

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It's BMW benchmark file used by Blender community. I scored 1:51. 1:42 (as can be seen in bottom right) is scored by 770.

FYI, my i7-6700 scored 4:02.

Interestingly, when in full load, all scores are turboed to 2.48. A big bonus, I guess. It turboes to 3.0ghz in single thread performance.

Not bad. Not bad at all. It was the same price as i7-6700k in Canada.

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Very nice, I like those big Intel CPU's, the IHS is way bigger than on E CPUs. So everything went smoothly, congratz.
 
Kanan said:
Very nice, I like those big Intel CPU's, the IHS is way bigger than on E CPUs. So everything went smoothly, congratz.
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Yep, rendering is the ultimate CPU test, so since it survives rendering, it's working perfectly fine. In next month, I will get 3 more RAM sticks and that's it. Man, 14 cores at 2.48ghz is nuts.
 
alucasa said:
Yep, rendering is the ultimate CPU test, so since it survives rendering, it's working perfectly fine. In next month, I will get 3 more RAM sticks and that's it. Man, 14 cores at 2.48ghz is nuts.
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Yep that will be a boost, Quad Channel rocks! Also look at a 18 Core haswell, IHS is even bigger, is at it's package limit :laugh: I don't like those small Intel CPU's , I'll probably never buy any of those, lol.

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edit: actually it's same size hahaha
 
I had better CPU choices if I went for an ES but chose to gamble on OEM chip this round. I don't have a problem with using an ES as I've occasionally purchased ES CPUs.

I think I saw Broadwell-e 22c/44t ES chip for a little more than I paid for this chip.
 
One last update before going out for a drink.

I rendered a scene I posted here. On i7-6700, I vaguely recall taking around 1 hour and 40-something minutes.

On this xeon, it took 35 minutes.

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Nice increase, very nice indeed.

alucasa said:
I had better CPU choices if I went for an ES but chose to gamble on OEM chip this round. I don't have a problem with using an ES as I've occasionally purchased ES CPUs.

I think I saw Broadwell-e 22c/44t ES chip for a little more than I paid for this chip.
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Wow that 22C/44T would've been a killer, I would have bought it and tried and if it was okay, okay great, and if not sent it back. But whatever, 14 cores is very nice too!
 
Just throwing two HWinfo screenshots.

Idle temp is avg 35c.

Full load temp is avg 70c.

The temp could be improved since I am using only one intake care fan. But this is good enough.
And, again, all cores turbo to 2.49Ghz under full load.

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That is impressive
 
alucasa said:
Just throwing two HWinfo screenshots.

Idle temp is avg 35c.

Full load temp is avg 70c.

The temp could be improved since I am using only one intake care fan. But this is good enough.
And, again, all cores turbo to 2.49Ghz under full load.

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Thats great! I want exactly this processor, but for Cinema4D and After Effects.

As long as the cinebench 15 is a reference for multicore rendering power, could you do a test and share a printscreen, please?

Congrats for the rig.

Cheers.
 
Kanan said:
Yep that will be a boost, Quad Channel rocks! Also look at a 18 Core haswell, IHS is even bigger, is at it's package limit :laugh: I don't like those small Intel CPU's , I'll probably never buy any of those, lol.

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edit: actually it's same size hahaha
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You guys rock! Is the ES model as powerful as the OEM 'normal one? Your cpu (picture) is very much like new (compared to what we see in the listings).

Can you share details of the purchase (howmuch/link/timetoarrive/etc)?

Thanks!
 
alucasa said:
I am in awe.

As far as I can see, this is indeed OEM (not ES) CPU. The CPU looks battered but functions fine. It's hard to see all the scratches in camera though.

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Since I had no spare GPU, I took my 760 from my i7 rig.

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It's BMW benchmark file used by Blender community. I scored 1:51. 1:42 (as can be seen in bottom right) is scored by 770.

FYI, my i7-6700 scored 4:02.

Interestingly, when in full load, all scores are turboed to 2.48. A big bonus, I guess. It turboes to 3.0ghz in single thread performance.

Not bad. Not bad at all. It was the same price as i7-6700k in Canada.

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I tried to benchmark with GPU rendering (as follows). Have you tried the same scene?
 

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JCOecksler said:
You guys rock! Is the ES model as powerful as the OEM 'normal one? Your cpu (picture) is very much like new (compared to what we see in the listings).

Can you share details of the purchase (howmuch/link/timetoarrive/etc)?

Thanks!
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It's from Google - I own a 3960X.
ES cpus can be as powerful as release or oem version but can also be somewhat faulty it depends and is somewhat risky to buy that's why he got a oem cpu.

On other questions: I think he already shared those informations. It's a 14 core oem haswell xeon for about 300 bucks from eBay as I remember. Just choose a seller that is trustworthy, that gives guarantee that the cpu is genuine.
 
Kanan said:
It's from Google - I own a 3960X.
ES cpus can be as powerful as release or oem version but can also be somewhat faulty it depends and is somewhat risky to buy that's why he got a oem cpu.

On other questions: I think he already shared those informations. It's a 14 core oem haswell xeon for about 300 bucks from eBay as I remember. Just choose a seller that is trustworthy, that gives guarantee that the cpu is genuine.
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Cool, thanks! But I was interested in a real world experience about the ES thing.

I replied your post because you posted a xeon 18core 2.9ghz image. :)
 
JCOecksler said:
Cool, thanks! But I was interested in a real world experience about the ES thing.

I replied your post because you posted a xeon 18core 2.9ghz image. :)
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Yeah it was just for the looks of it. Don't buy es, buy OEM instead.
 
Buying an ES chip is okay. What's more important is finding later stepping.

ES chips are almost guaranteed to function. What it does not guarantee is CPU features. The most common deficiency is inability to hit target turbo or failing to turbo all together. Another common deficiency is malfunctioning CPU instrcuctions. VT is the most common deficiency.

A QS chip is safe to buy. Ebay seller will mark QS chips so. ES -> QS -> OEM
 
It's been over a week since I started using this rig now. There is no going back for me to mainstream, desktop, i7 with 4c/8t. No way in hell.

Below is a render I've been working on for few weeks now and what you see is a sample render @ only 700 samples, not final (usually 2000 samples and more depending on how grainy it looks). Still, it would have taken an hour just to get it out with my i7 6700 and I would have to let it run for over night for higher quality, final, render because it'd take 4 hours or so and I can't really use the rig while rendering.

Just 20 minutes needed with this CPU and I let it use only 26 threads so that I can use the rig for web browsing and stuff with 2 free threads.
No regret at all with this build. In fact, I am waiting for E5 v4 CPU to come down in price. That's be my upgrade path.

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The power of using the right tool for the job
 
alucasa said:
Buying an ES chip is okay. What's more important is finding later stepping.

ES chips are almost guaranteed to function. What it does not guarantee is CPU features. The most common deficiency is inability to hit target turbo or failing to turbo all together. Another common deficiency is malfunctioning CPU instrcuctions. VT is the most common deficiency.

A QS chip is safe to buy. Ebay seller will mark QS chips so. ES -> QS -> OEM
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Rarely anything wrong with ES cpus you find in the wild, note.

How do you ID a 'QS' cpu? I've never seen it on cpuz...is it on the IHS?
 
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