Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 “Ivy Bridge-EP” Processor Review

Test System and Methods

Before we delve into any testing we would like to take this opportunity to review our test system and thank those sponsors who kindly provided us with test equipment to make our work possible. We offer our thanks to:

Intel for supplying us with two Xeon E5-2697V2 processors, which we are reviewing here, and a Xeon E5-2670 processor which we reviewed here.

ASUS for supplying us with a Z9PE-D8 WS dual socket LGA 2011 C602 chipset motherboard, which we reviewed here.

Kingston for supplying us with a HyperX 3K 240GB SSD, which we reviewed here, and 64GB of their KVR18E13/8 RAM.

Corsair for supplying us with two Hydro Series H100i liquid CPU coolers, which we reviewed here.

Be Quiet for supplying us with a PowerZone 1000W modular power supply.

Nvidia for supplying us with a GTX Titan graphics card, which we reviewed here.

Lian Li for supplying us with a PC-T60A test bench.

Noctua for supplying us with NT-H1 thermal compound.

Test System

• Motherboard: ASUS Z9PE-D8 WS Socket LGA 2011 C602 chipset
• CPU: 2 x Intel Xeon E5 2697 V2 and 1 x Intel Xeon E5 2670
• GPU: Nvidia GTX Titan 6GB graphics card
• RAM: 8 x 8 GB of Kingston KVR18E13/8 1866MHz
• Cooling: Corsair H100i with Noctua NT-H1 Thermal Compound
• Case: Lian Li PC-T60A test bench
• Storage Drives: Kingston 240GB Hyper X 3K SSD
• PSU: Be Quiet Power Zone 1000W Modular
• Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit SP1

Test Software

• 3DMark – available here.
• 7-Zip – available here.
• AIDA 64 Engineer – available here.
• Bioshock Infinite – available here.
• Cinebench – available here.
• CPUID HWMonitor – available here.
• Handbrake – available here.
• Metro Last Light – available here.
• POV-Ray – available here.
• SiSoft Sandra Tech Support – available here.
• WinRAR – available here.
• WPrime – available here.