Review on 💪 Intel XEON 22 Core Processor E5-2699V4: Ultimate Power and Efficiency with 2.2GHz, 55MB Smart Cache, and 9.6 GT/S QPI by Mike Campbell

Delivery was only slightly annoying as a signature was required but at least it was easier to get than my HTC Vive (they refused to deliver to the local FedEx pickup). The packaging was modest and nondescript, because who cares? The chip was securely protected with an anti-static bag and double/triple layers of bubble wrap. Otherwise, it's just a piece of silicon and doesn't look very impressive. . However, it turns out to be quite impressive. I can't seem to get any clock speed from this and all my cores are currently running at 2.2GHz. It doesn't matter since I can give my Windows hypervisor 8 cores and DOOM will run impressively alongside an nVidia 1080. You can play on it - it won't melt, but it will work with a decent modern parallelizable game. .Well, this is boring stuff. DOOM will not tax that at all. For *real* work, this thing will trigger QEMU 2.6 builds like a screaming nightmare - do -j and don't be scared. Watching the system monitor is also fun. It also reduces Blender's rendering work pretty well, giving me a lot more time to play around with render settings without sitting on my ass waiting for pixels. This chip also means I can allocate 8 or 16 cores to my VM and not worry about my core starving. If you have a heavy computing load, this is currently the only way.