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okay so it's here this might not look like much but if you've ever gotten a review sample from Intel then you'll know that there could be anything inside usually a CPU but anyway this my friends is one of our two Intel Xeon $26.99 v3 processors now this was not easy to get because this is not your average run-of-the-mill consumer you know tops out at a thousand peasant dollars processor note this is a four thousand five hundred dollar chip it has 18 cores it supports hyper threading for a total of 36 threads it has 45 megabytes of cash it has more cash than my first computer had Ram my first computer that I owned for myself had ran it has more cash than that and my server board isn't here for it yet but I figure what the hey this is LGA 2011 3 right just like an X 99 motherboard the next 99 motherboard listed as compatible so I figured why don't we take her for a spin even though we can't fire up both of them and I'm going to put it in a soos x99 deluxe and find out what this little puppy is capable of so come along for the ride the ring video doorbell lets you see who's at the door and really now you're going to open the door okay well whatever I could have prevented him from doing that by locking my door and then going and seeing the video on my phone to see if I should let that guy in alright so the first step is to take that wussy core i7 59 60 x8 core processor out of my test bench now the first thing that stands out to me immediately about these suckers is the fact that even though they go in the same socket you can actually see that the Xeon chip with my hands are shaky I'm super stoked on this as you can see that the Xeon chip is significantly wider and it will actually overhang the socket a little bit compared to what the core i7 chip did now this is for a very good reason because each of those physical cores in the die down there is the same size as the eight that go in here but there's 18 of them 18 cores so they're going to be spread out quite a bit more under the integrated heat spreader the metal piece on top now one of the cool things about these Zeon's is that you know you might go 18 cores holy cow oh we better put some new thermal compound on there 18 cores holy cow how you know are they going to cool that sucker well because they have so many lower powered cores running at a lower voltage and because the power density is so much lower they're actually significantly easier to cool and they will it will in theory run cooler than our fewer high powered course so I am really stoked to see how our single 120-millimeter water cooler fares with this bad boy okay now Zeon's aren't really meant to be used with gaming memories so we actually had Kingston for the the dual processor server that we're building with this thing right we had Kingston provide 128 gigs so that's 8 8 by 16 gig sticks of ECC ddr4 2133 so we're going to go ahead and we're going to pull our gaming memory out but I'm not a hundred percent sure if this board even supports ECC so good okay moment of truth times see if she boots oh this is peridot I'll boss oh here we go that took a really long time there it is new CPU installed 64 gigs of RAM Lee 526 99 v3 at 2.3 gigahertz so uh yeah I guess all that's left now is boot into Windows check that out CPU core voltage 0.78 4 volts next to nothing you're gonna miss the moment it's installing drivers software uh that's just USB devices ok I guess the CPU works already fine then no maybe those holy crap have you ever seen 18 threads and or excuse me 18 cores an 18 hyper threaded virtual course in one place at one time that is fantastic there's our 45 Meg's a level 3 cache there's our 18 by 256 cubic Wow this thing has multiple megabytes so four and a half Meg's of level two cache nevermind the level three cache memory is running in quad-channel now something I'm curious about is beyond obviously this chip is not designed for gaming strictly speaking but I wonder will it support the regular unbuffered memory let's uh let's take a run at it shall we so since we're playing around anyway we're going to boot er up with our quad channel kit of Corsair Vengeance memory and I'm just going to see if like XMP memory works because I can't imagine why it would but I also can't necessarily think of a reason why not I mean we didn't tell a feature off on the $4,500 processor up it boots and if we go to Advanced Mode XMP is an option oh I don't think that's going to work though I don't know let's let's see ah yeah you know what okay I'm gonna let it try I don't think this is going to work though the way XMP works on the consumer grade chips is it'll actually run the CPU strap at 125 megahertz and then is actually going to run the base clock slightly out of spec and I really don't think the Xeon is gonna like that this boots I'll be floored I don't think it is so it's in a loop right now it's not happy time to clear CMOS and restart well let's do 2666 since that is a little bit of a of a safer number oh not happy let's go for default settings and that's it okay so now that I'm booted up I know the max turbo frequency for this chip is 3.5 gigahertz and a single-threaded workload which means in theory you actually could game on the thing and there would be no disadvantage compared to running on a consumer chip but what I don't know is that in spite of its 2.3 gigahertz base clock what it will run at under a sustained all core load so there are two things I want to know I want to know what voltage it actually runs that when we're loading it and I want to know what frequency it actually runs out so you can see turbo boost and speed step jumping around changing frequencies here so let's start our i-264 stability test and then just for fun you a hundred percent usage of 18 cores and 36 threads so it looks like we're gonna get a multiplier of 24 not bad so it's a little bit higher not much higher it manages to turbo-boost another you know hundred megahertz but that's better than nothing and the core voltage stays extremely low so these are super low power cores so I'm going to go eat lunch and we'll come back and find out what these temps in Lynette all right so this is actually better than I expected it's been sitting here running for 28 minutes and our highest core is 51 52 degrees something like that that is ridiculous so let's overclock it now I don't think we're going to be able to do much Zeon's straight up do not allow you to change the multiplier they're not consumer chips they're not intended for that so the only thing you can do on a Xeon is increase the base clock speed now we already saw what happened when we tried to run a different strap so that's clearly not happening we're not going to 125 base clock so all we can really do is maybe we can get you know five megahertz more on the hundred megahertz stock base clock but remember guys five megahertz more is 5% to are to every clock speed we run at every boost level so that could result in a significant performance improvement especially when you multiply it by 18 cores that's that's like adding almost another core to the sit to the tip look at that 105 megahertz we are now seeing well I guess we should we should compare apples to apples so let's run our stress test two point seven three gigahertz rounding up a little bit god it's still impressive on our 18 core processor under full load how very interesting now obviously something like this is going to need a longer stress test if you're going to deploy it in any kind of environment and 105 megahertz from my understanding is actually pretty borderline so we're going to use we're actually going to use a Seuss's real bench in order to hit this bad boy and find out over a longer period of time if she's stable so real bench has two modes one of them is a stress test mode and one is a benchmark mode so let's go ahead and give her up to 16 gigs of RAM and start alright so real bench I thought it was still running for quite some time but the system actually locked up after about 14 minutes so we're going to dial this puppy back well let's say 103 megahertz let's try this again and find out if we can get her stable okay so now we're booted up at a hundred and three megahertz base clock so let's do our eight-hour stress test again and find out if this is stable this will still give us a three percent improvement in frequency which will up but come back actually oh this is not the same kind of a workload so you guys can see that even in a fairly multi-threaded workload we're actually sitting at two point eight eight gigahertz per core Wow so it's only in that synthetic Ida workload that the multiplier is only going to 24 that is really impressive so it looks like our eight-hour run actually did succeed which means that we're stable for all intents and purposes at a three percent overclock on our Xeon so now all that's left is to run a couple benchmarks and kind of see how it goes from there so those of you who are into Cinebench why don't we go ahead and do a multi-threaded Cinebench r15 bench haha wow that is incredible I've watched this run a lot of times I have never watched it run like that holy crap so I think is this your Z on it 2.6 gigahertz 12 core 24 thread okay so this thing is double the performance of an X 56 50 it is two and a half time like two points three times the performance of a 3930k in Cinebench something that scales reasonably well now let's run the single core benchmark because I want to see how performance is actually scaling going from 1 to 18 course this one's gonna take a while I don't think we're going to film the whole thing you see this is what this is more like what it means to Z so we mentioned this before but this is the ring video doorbell basically what it does is it allows you to preview using video it's got a 720p camera on your iOS or Android device who is coming to your door so whoever it is that happens to be coming up the steps and knocking or in this case actually ringing the bell which is of course his cue but he totally missed it oh hi I have a package for you Linus can it aside and get to work I thought this was going to be my dual socket motherboard go go jeez anyway the point is it can be powered with your existing doorbell wiring or it can use its 5200 milliamp hour internal battery and it works over Wi-Fi it's got motion detection and is basically just a way of knowing who exactly it is without actually going outside or unlocking your door whatever else the case may be it's available for $1.99 and for three dollars a month you can actually archive the footage off of it for six months so it's $30 a year if you buy a year at a time so head over to the link that I've got posted below me if you want to learn more about the ring doorbell all right so here we go oh viously performances a little bit lower actually less than 18 times the performance so you can see that what we lose in inter core communication and splitting up the project efficiency we actually gain back and then a little bit with hyper-threading so performance looks very promising this is an extremely fast machine but I think that's pretty much it for today I'd love for you guys to leave a comment and let me know if you'd like to see any other completely you know different kinds of stuff with this thing I already have some ideas I'd love to see how it actually does in gaming workloads for example I'd love to see if we can if we can crack the top of some leaderboards based on that we're using processors that literally nobody has so yeah I guess that's pretty much it thanks for watching guys like the video if you liked it dislike it if you thought it sucked and leave a comment if your feelings are more complicated than that preferably in our forum which is linked in the video description also linked in the video description you can buy a cool t-shirt like this one give us a monthly contribution if you think what we're doing is awesome and we 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