oh we are back at it again with another
crazy core count system so Intel
sent over this care package with some bananas
stuff in it so we've got an entire tray
i mean technically it is an entire tray even if it's only 60 full of actual
things of their new xeon w chips for workstations we've got
oh this one's really good they're top of
the line 28 core processor that's the xeon 8180 and
another one they sent two these are unrelated they're cool too
though so that's 56 cores on a single
motherboard there are only two words to adequately describe this kind of speed
holy sh
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now Intel has come under fire over the last number of years for
their CPU innovation is dead let's call
it a passive approach to bringing more cores
to the mainstream consumer but this is not so in the enterprise
space where super computing and the cloud have driven demand for cpus with
ever higher core counts and with
customers who are ready to pay for the engineering involved in creating them so
in the last five years we've gone from the 2697 v2 that's a 12 core to this
this is the xeon platinum 8180 28 cores in here that is over
double the core count in less than five
years each one of these chips can
support up to 768 gigabytes of memory the uh m variant
can actually do 1.5 terabytes each and
is equipped with 48 pci express lanes a
whopping six channels of ddr4 2666 memory each so
this is 12 sticks here we're going to be using all of these and three qpi links
for high speed communication in multi-chip configurations with up to
four of them being able to communicate directly to each of the others but all
of that comes at a cost Intel has been
forced to use a significantly larger socket like physically larger with many
more pins and what that means is that there will be zero interoperability
between these high-end server chips and
prosumer or workstation be they single
socket or dual socket motherboards like we've enjoyed for the last few
generations hold on a second is this going to be a problem always one to defy
expectations a seuss has created
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for all the folks out there that disagree with Intel's assessment so
let's then have a look at the ws c
621e sage it has quite literally
everything i mean ASUS engineers don't seem to have stressed out too much about
the question of is it necessary it's got support for four
u.2 drives who puts four u.2 drives in a
system so we got two 3647 sockets we've
got 12 memory slots like look at how much of this board is dedicated to just
memory and CPU sockets
it's got a micro sd slot because i don't know maybe you want to run some like
Linux distro off of microsd seven pci
express 16x slots with three of them wired up at 8x it's got a vga header
can't go wrong with that i guess now
all that's really left is to put it together and maybe run some
benchmarks i am super duper not a fan of this
socket the retention mechanism is i should not to put a heatsink on top of
it and screw it down which is terrifying because in 100 of cases so far i've had
the suction of the thermal compound lift the CPU out at the same time now the
conventional wisdom when it comes to thermal compound is generally less is
more but if we're being realistic you know these coolers weren't going to help
me break any overclocking records anyway these were the only things i could find
with compatibility with the square ilm design versus the narrow one that were
also readily available hello swiftech
did up a couple of custom blocks for this socket almost no one else is even
talking about support for this socket yet oh it's heavy
56 processing cores
now we got to keep it fed with data i mean that's one of the big design concerns
every time is how are you going to keep that thing fed so what i'm installing
right now from kingston top of the line as far as server memory speed goes so
these are 26 66 megahertz
and a whopping six channels per CPU it is an effective 6x4
of the total memory bandwidth per CPU oh
it's even more beautiful assembled 56 cores
384 gigabytes of memory and that amount
was actually chosen for a pretty specific reason so you guys are probably
familiar with the seven gamers one CPU project where we had seven discrete
gaming rigs running off of a single motherboard when we did that
we were using 18 core cpus and i kind of went okay 36 course well now we've got
so many that if we were to do
six workstations like 8k
video editing workstations each one of them
could have oh that worked out too
nine cores per video editing system like
that is enough for a bonafide workstation so i would
consider an eight core 64 gig workstation we're going to try
and find some single slot cards so everyone gets a dedicated GPU i would
consider that a very capable workstation and i want the whole thing powered off
of a single motherboard okay we're in dare me to enable the
turbo ratio lock to keep the processor
operating at the turbo highest frequency for the maximum performance what does
that even mean you guys means make it go more faster
let's try it it's funny people would always ask me back when i used a raid
card running eight ssds and raid 0 for my boot drive people always ask me oh
how fast are your boot times it was not about boot time ssds were never about
boot time it was always about speed once you're booted
so i don't want to deal with the amount of screeching
that i would have to deal with if i don't immediately fire up cinebench
speaking of which okay okay people have asked me for examples of this the
terribleness of the Windows search see okay that'll make sense i
sure okay
uh not really sure how we're getting there
oh cine okay now i can get cinebench but watch this watch this
b it's gone here we go
whoa look at that turbo speed
just shy of 7
000 in cinebench that is 56 cores
112 threads let's see it again my friends
what it's like it's warmed up or something
i came up with something that will let us hit it hard
for an extended period when you mine burstcoin
you have to do something called plotting so i'm gonna run six
instances of the plotting software to
see how much we can make it scream
100 utilization at 2.9 gigahertz so
somewhere between 150 000 and 200 000
nonsense per minute which if you're into burst coin
you will know is pretty freaking impressive for anything that is not a
GPU obviously though this isn't the only thing we're gonna run on these things
let us know in the comments below what kind of loads do you want to see run
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