Intel Xeon E5 2670 v2 

The ultra-high-end enthusiast also wants all the bells and whistles, such as overclockability, a good range of DRAM speed support and top quality construction materials.

My goal was to find out where these two CPUs stand in what I consider ‘an enthusiast user’s scenario’, and as such we used the same benchmarks as in the AMD Kaveri launch article, involving gaming, compression, rendering, video conversion and 2D image to 3D modeling creation.

With any luck we should be getting a couple of Ivy Bridge-E based server motherboards in to test, along with Xeon processors.

> Haswell Xeons, these processors, destined for 2P systems, will take on the E5 26xx naming scheme with V2 on the end, with L designating low power versions.

The E7-8800 V2 chips would work in configurations that feature up to eight sockets and will feature 15 cores per CPU, along with Hyperthreading, resulting in 30 threads per socket.

They will also carry 30 MB of L3 cache and have quad-channel DDR3-1866 memory support, per socket.

Each physical core has access to 256KB L2 cache and the chip has a total of 30MB L3 cache.

The E5-2600 V2 has 10 physical cores, and with HyperThreading it can handle a maximum of 20 threads.