Ask HN: Why are modern Intel CPUs not getting a lot more cores?

Re:Ask HN: Why are modern Intel CPUs not getting a lot more ... by elcct on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @08:57AM (#12304266)

You can put Xeon in desktop motherboard like with X99 chipset. I myself recently got 22 (44 threads) core one, but for day to day tasks it doesn't make a difference and it is quite expensive. If there was a larger demand then perhaps we could see more of these.

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Re:Ask HN: Why are modern Intel CPUs not getting a lot more ... by soulbadguy on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @09:24AM (#12304448)

what kind of workload did you intended to you use this beast for ? I really wish i had a use case to buy on of those :).

How did you decided to go with the X99 chipset instead of the c230/c236 (traditionally used with xeons)

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Re:Ask HN: Why are modern Intel CPUs not getting a lot more ... by elcct on Thursday August 18, 2016 @01:10PM (#12314360)

Mainly for making music, some plugins that are doing simulations are very computationally expensive, so it is not possible to run many instances in realtime using typical 4-core PC. So multicore cpu like in my case helps a lot with this. Another thing is that I use a lot of virtual machines for my work, so it is handy to have when launching a lot of them etc. You also get the benefit of having more memory slots available. In terms of X99 - I had i7-5820K cpu which I was maxing out all the time and since X99 is supporting XEONS as well, i decided to keep it for money reasons :) I could also keep non-ECC memory, so that was a plus.

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