Gadgetory

hey everyone i'm steve from gamers nexus net and we've made it back from CES 2016 if you're curious what's coming out this year or what is already out from the world's biggest consumer electronics trade show do check out the channel or website for more information on that today we have a quick news item from Intel so this is actually a rumor but it's a somewhat back through more we do think that there's some possibility that this is all true the new Intel Xeon chips are currently known to be on broadwell EP that is not rumored to the rumor is that the e5 2602 v4 that's a quad-core xeon chip on Broadwell EP silicon is looking at the possibility of shipping 5.1 gigahertz stock so that is a very high frequency and sort of reminds me of the days where there are frequency races and battles between AMD and intel there's not been a chip shipping quite this high frequency from intel in a long time so if the rumor is true it would be very interesting to give you all an idea of what xeon is if you don't know what xeon is it is a workstation or sometimes server targeted alternative to what we see in the gaming market that would be the i7s life I've is the case you CPUs that are often unlocked for overclocking Xeon takes a very similar and sometimes same but normally just similar with some tweaks architecture to the existing architecture that we see I'm a game inside and remove some features like overclocking but adds other features that may be beneficial to workstation environments and things like that just like the chipsets between all the different types of chipsets qbz h they all take or add things based on the market they're targeted at now is eon has been used pretty heavily in gaming systems in the past and this is especially true because z on ships are only a little bit cheaper than the case key version of what we see on the gaming side but they provide very similar performance if you don't want the overclocking or whatever features have been stripped out of that particular version of the modern Xeon chip so broadwell EP silicon the things we do know for a fact are that it is on LGA 2011 v3 so that's the extreme series socket type it's a larger socket larger chip and it's also the xeon e5 2602 v4 or that's looking at the 5.1 gigahertz rumored clock rate which is a quad-core xeon chip there should be eight core options out there as well but we're not sure exactly on what those skus will be just yet there's 10 megabytes of l3 cache it supports quad channel memory as the extreme series cpus tend to do and it's looking at again a four to eight core shipping options depending on on which skew you're looking at specifically so that is all for that quick news item 5.1 Giga it should be a pretty big deal for Xeon CPUs and would definitely make them viable in the gaming market if you don't necessarily want to draw up a thousand bucks on another extreme CCP at the top end or if you wanted to sacrifice your overclocking ability and some of the other options on case Q gaming CPUs in favor of perhaps we're not sure yet a cheaper alternative in the Xeon area with an improved architecture and faster stock clock rate so definitely worth looking at xeon chips are always very interesting for this reason they may be fairly viable solutions for gaming in the immediate future and of course for more information as always just subscribe to the channel hit our patreon link the postal video if you want to help us out directly and thanks for watching I'll see you all next time