You can Buy xeon e5 2670 from AE for 6k

[Patrick Bateman]

hi as many people know e5 2670 is a 10/10 intel processor for a price tag of 6k,original price was 2000usd
two of these can beatdown an i7 6700k for a quarter of price

now importing these from u.s was a issue but not anymore!
these are selling on Aliexpress.com for 5-7k
https://www.aliexpress.com/w/wholes...ype=total_tranpro_desc&g=y&SearchText=e5+2670

with free shipping through hong kong post,also no customs as far as i know,

now you will need a motherboard for these and AE has 2011 dual prcy boards from 7-10k BUT i cannot guarantee that such big item may reach in one piece without customs

https://www.aliexpress.com/w/wholes...tal_tranpro_desc&g=y&SearchText=dual+lga+2011

alternatively look for one in india

 

[tommy_vercetti]

@vivek.krishnan

 

[Arun.P]

well that does not make sense if the motherboard get fail as no warranty is the big issue

 

[vivek.krishnan]

There are only two issues now with these setups

1. Cost of motherboard, I would not buy any mobo from china or the likes, as I have no idea about reliability. These will be costing about 25-30K easily.
2. Power - these are massive suckers for power.

My setup will be completing a year soon in operation.

If you want to build whiteboxes for ESXi/Hyper-V/KVM/Xen etc, these are absolutely VFM.

I would suggest to buy 6x CPU, 3x mobo, outfit them with 32/64 GB each and run a cluster. With Windows Server 2016 DC and Storage Spaces Direct, you have one helluva of a setup. Or if you are the VMWare fanatic, then VSAN + VSPHERE is another potent combo. add NSX (if you can) and its paisa vaasool.[DOUBLEPOST=1477999355][/DOUBLEPOST]Just one advice, please ensure you get the SR0KX stepping only, as that has fixed issues with virtualization.

 

[vivek.krishnan]

Some more info - anyone interested may contact Arihant Infotech, Lamington, who said they have some old stock. They would be giving 1 year warranty (seller, not Intel), and expect the mobo to be about 25K.