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Autumn is on its way and Intel has released the "Ivy Bridge-EP" Xeon E5-2600 v2 server processors just in time to get in line for a chunk of the remaining 2013 IT budget at the data centers of the world. So how are these new processors going to stack up to the existing "Sandy Bridge-EP" Xeon E5-2600 v1 chips, and what can …

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  1. Mikel

    In place upgrades

    A great way to get 50% bump in cpu performance. Or more if you started out with less than the top end.

    Server chips are getting pretty ridiculous though.

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  2. Philip Lewis

    Ridiculous indeed. I just specced a gen8 quad socket E5-4600, 128GB database server. Bought it bits on eBay, and after a day or two of tinkering I will have enough grunt to see me through another very long period of growth. The old SAN is looking a bit long in the tooth but it is not really a bottleneck yet for our largely CPU constrained workload. This is a move up from a gen7 x5570 box, so I am expecting some nice throughput numbers.

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