Xeon E5-2620

[White_Pawn]

15M Cache, 2.00 GHz, 7.20 GT/s Intel® QPI.

Will this run on a X79 mobo? ie asus p9x79. If so $420 is a decent deal for a 6 core. I also heard these cpus have two QPI links, so i'm wondering if this will give any clock per clock advantage over normal sandy bridge cpus.

Lastly, i'm guessing the OCing capability would be similar to the i7-3820. Combination of CPU strap/multiplier OC.

 

[redduc900]

The E5-2620 isn't on the CPU Support List for the P9X79, so until Asus releases a microcode update, I would say probably not.

 

[White_Pawn]

looks like there is some hope after all.

After finding a thread on anandtech.

http://forums.anandtech.com/archive/index.php/t-2206823.html

it looks like this person was able to post two different ES e5 2670s on his p9x79 deluxe. However, it seems the ES samples did not support the cpu strap multies, so i'll continue to dig around.

EDIT: also looks like they were able to get a e5 2690 to run on an ROG rampage 4 gene
http://vr-zone.com/articles/ultimat...eon-e5-2690-r4g-7970dcii-and-more-/15123.html

asrock lists most of the xeon flavours on its site for the extreme9. So i think it may not be too far fetched for them to be officially supported eventually by all companies within the next few bios updates.
http://www.asrock.com/mb/cpu.asp?Model=X79 Extreme9