Yep, i'm assuming the price will be steep for these CPU's :)
 
For anyone on a budget the E5-2620 can be had for around 350 EUR per CPU which isn't too steep! Hopefully the ivy bridge Xeons will have a similarly priced lower end Xeon too. :)

This is why I hope the SR-X supports ES chips they tend to be cheaper. Ivy bridge-EP might still be unlockable down the road.

I guess we will know if Ivy Bridge EP is overclockable once Intel starts shipping ES1 silicon to the OEMs, and Coolaler gets hold of one of them :)
 
The alleged Ivy Bridge EP screenshots that were posted some weeks ago are clear fakes.  Although they originated from coolaler forums they are not posted by coolaler, but by some forum member.
 
One thing is for sure - Ivy Bridge EP is going to have some pretty impressive TDP figures - so if Intel decides to allow overclocking, it would be absolutely fantastic.  Unfortunately, because of this reason alone (potential to overclock) I doubt Intel is going to allow this - as steep overclock of the Ivy Bridge EP would endanger some of the future Ivy Bridge EX sales - and today there are already use-cases outside of typical "enthusiast" crowd that are actually relying on overclocked iron (low latency trading, for example).
 
In any case, I think SR-X is a good purchase for people looking for high performance computing, especially for those who need memory bandwidth due to quad-channel memory support.  Put compatibility with the future Ivy Bridge EP to the mix, and this looks like a very sweet platform for the next 2-3 years.
 
Unfortunately, current price of SB-E and overclock limit is probably going to significantly decrease the appeal to the typical extreme gamer/overclock/folding crowd.  

For me, i'm already using a pair of X5650's at 4 Ghz on my current SR-2, and we still see X5600 chips at 1200 to 1500$( X5680's and X5690's), and the highest overclock on water cooling might be 4.5~4.6Ghz wich is only 500~600Mhz more than i have now, so it isn't a huge performance increase and still a lot of money.
 
So with the above in mind, getting the SR-X and waiting for the 10 core ivy brige E's, wich i'd get a pair off the bat even if i know they'll be expensive, and even assuming they too can't be overclocked, moves me from a 12 core/24 thread setup to a 20 core/40 thread setup.....Then add that ivy bridge E should be a good 30% faster at the same clock speed as westmere chips even if they had the same amount of cores(they have 4 more per die), and it's a pretty big increase in CPU power overall, at least in applications that leverage all those cores.

so what chipset is the C606? this is the first time I've heard of this chipset.  course I've been busy try'n to find a job so staying current with chipsets and what not hasn't really been my main priority lol.

I believe someone said something about this week? Not too sure though.

Intel have new CPU on 22nm.
The dual processor Socket 2011 platform, the Xeon E5, is expected to receive the ten core 25 MB L3 (some sources mention 30 MB L3 but that doesn't seem likely as of now) cache Ivy Bridge EP part update, which should also bring around 15%-20% clock speed update. The 22 nm tri-gate process benefits for both power consumption and clock speed will help Xeon E5 solve the high-TDP problems that bothered it a little bit in the Sandy Bridge EP generation right now. In my mind, based on the power and performance gains assessment, I'd expect 2.4 GHz 10-core parts at the 95W TDP level, 3 GHz 10-core parts at the 130W TDP level, and 3.3 GHz 10-core parts at the 150W workstation SKU grade, all plus minus 100 MHz or so.
 
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I was very lucky to have the privilege of working with an SR-X and was very impressed by the board I got to stick a pair of 2620 xeons in it and two GTX680's
 
I put up a very poor build log over at PDXLAN

  duh can't add a link yet you can find it under Forums> modding>Project logs>Rosewill Mod
 
Huge thank to everyone at EVGA for helping with this build!
 
Rod
 

rodrosenberg

I was very lucky to have the privilege of working with an SR-X and was very impressed by the board I got to stick a pair of 2620 xeons in it and two GTX680's

I put up a very poor build log over at PDXLAN

duh can't add a link yet you can find it under Forums> modding>Project logs>Rosewill Mod

Huge thank to everyone at EVGA for helping with this build!

Rod

Here I"ll help you out with the link: http://www.pdxlan.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=14748&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
Nice job and interesting read.

I think it terms of a single CPU server you'd indeed be better off running a single socket motherboard, Z77,68, X79, something along those lines rather than one CPU on an SR-X

Seriously,,, when is this Mobo going to be available. Im sitting here with my CC ready, and the thing just does not show up Available.
Im also waiting for the waterblock for GTX 580 (not available),, and the new PSU (not even product page).
Come one EVGA,, lets make some $$$ here.
 

The SR-X will be available for sale later this year?
What's wrong with providing a date of sale?

How?
It is not available on evga.com.
 
Where did you order?
 

You are right,, I just checked.
It is available on eu.evga.com .
 
That might mean that is coming to US too.
 
But with the way EVGA behaves lately, I wont be standing while I wait....
 
 

Excellent news Nick! :)