Maximum PC: Intel today announced its new Xeon processor E5-2600/1600 v3 product families designed to crunch through diverse workloads and the growing needs of data centers. These new processors sport several enhancements that Intel claims will result in up to a three-fold increase in performance compared to the previous generation (Xeon E5 v2 family). Among those enhancements are more processing cores and an upgrade from Ivy Bridge to Intel's Haswell architecture.
Gigabyte four workstation / server motherboards are MU70-SU0 , MD30-RS0 , MD50-LS0 and MD60-SC0. They are equipped with Intel C612 chipset, need to match Intel Xeon E5-2600/1600 V3 processor (CPU Socket is LGA2011-3 , naturally Haswell EP), using DDR4 server memory, maximum memory capacity to support 768GB.
These new processors sport several enhancements that Intel claims will result in up to a three-fold increase in performance compared to the previous generation