Hardware

[barhund]

Speaking of hardware when are you guys gonna roll out the new e5 series v3's?

[kraze]

I split the topic as I didn't want to derail the troubleshooting there. As for the V3s. I don't believe we're rolling them out. We did start rolling out some E5-2667 v2's due to their higher clock speed but we're still playing a waiting game on CPUs. Game servers we're still using E3's as they are offering the best performance.

[Edge100x]

We use some E5v3-based machines on our network already. Unfortunately, they do not seem to have higher performance per core, even though you'd expect them to, but the extra cores are helpful on VDS-hosting machines. We also use them (and other E5s) to some extent for game servers.

Since this generation took so long to be released, it was disappointing that the core speeds didn't increase and performance doesn't reach that of even older E3v1s. Intel is clearly aiming them at different market segments that value width more than depth (webhosting and cheaper, generic "cloud" VPS offerings).

[barhund]

That's very unfortunate that intel is taking that route especially considering when you leverage the advantage of DDR4 ram. It would have been nice to see them throw us a bone.