Eight-core Sandy Bridge Chip Listed on eBay
There comes a time in every young processor’s life when it starts getting sampled to third parties. Once that happens, the chances of that next-generation processor appearing on auction sites like eBay rises considerably.
Case in point: Here’s an eight-core, hyper-threaded Sandy Bridge E-series processor that showed up on eBay just last week. Due in the fourth quarter of this year, the Sandy Bridge E chips are aimed directly at the enthusiast market. This chip, stamped with ‘Intel Confidential,’ boasts clock speeds of 1.60GHz and a 20MB of Level 3 cache. Intel's Turbo Boost technology has been disabled.
This listing has since been pulled (it’s likely Intel got wind of it). However, while it was live, the seller claimed the chip was ‘the only of its kind.’ Still, it might be hard to come by one now, we’re sure it will crop up some place else before Q42011. You just need to scrape together $1400 to make sure you can afford one when it does.
(via Engadget)

Anyway, its weird how the clock base is too low 1.6?
Ya, LGA 2011 is a massive socket. Just google "LGA 2011". I was amazed the first time I saw leaked images of X79 motherboards. The socket looks disproportionately large on a standard ATX mobo. Although I'm not aware of any 8 core processors in Intel's Sandy Bridge-E launch lineup, it's almost certain an eight core derivative will come out eventually for the platform. The highest end launch processor I'm aware of will be a 6 core clocked at 3.3 GHz with 15MB L3 cache and an unlocked multiplier, MSRP around $1000.
I'm willing to bet 4 core.
Anyways... someone is prolly going to jail, or get sued...
Who cares, I just want to feel its cold, smooth, metal surface as I rest my cheek on it as I fall asleep at night.
Exactly, how many 6 core Extreme owners do you know that actually utilize the power?
This!!!
Also, sucks to be anyone who bought an SR2 when this thing lands...
What a dumb ass trying to sell what is obviously a highly experimental engineering sample. Hopefully this Ebay seller gets put through the wringer like the guy that stole Apple's iPhone prototype.
That's pretty common for engineering samples.
That's pretty common for engineering samples.