Intel Core i7 Sandy Bridge-EP 8-Core Processor on eBay
You might not be able to buy any socket LGA 2011 motherboards right now, but you can get on eBay and buy an Intel Confidential Sandy bridge-E series processor! The processor that has been listed is an engineering sample chip market as a Q19D ES part and packs eight processing cores with Hyper-Threading support clocked at 1.60GHz. The chip is said to have a massive 20MB of Level 3 cache memory and Intel’s Turbo Boost technology has been disabled. The TDP on this processor is 130W and it does have Hyper-Threading, so you have 16 thread of processing power at your disposal. How much will this set you back? The current bid is $1,359.99 USD! Not bad for an unreleased engineering sample processor that you know is fully unlocked.
Sandy Bridge-E is Intel’s next-generation high-performance architecture and it should take the place of the company’s current Nehalem core that has been in use ever since 2008.The new CPUs will be compatible with LGA 2011 motherboards based on the X79 chipset and will bring a wide series of improvements compared to the current Sandy Bridge processors. Among these, some of the most important are the inclusion of a new quad-channel memory controller and that of a PCI Express 3.0 controller that features no less than 40 PCIe lanes.
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