The 2630v4 row was hidden because of the QPI / memory concerns I mentioned (all such models were hidden on the sheet because I don't consider them for my purcha

The 2630v4 row was hidden because of the QPI / memory concerns I mentioned (all such models were hidden on the sheet because I don't consider them for my purchases). I re-exposed those rows just now. FYI, the v4 rows are towards the bottom, under Broadwell. I've been tracking this stuff for a while. The $/perf of 2630v4 is pretty decent ($2.24), but I would personally be leery for the reasons I mentioned. That said, I have used it for bulk storage servers, where CPU performance was not that important. So it's not like it will blow up your machine or something. To obtain the perf number, I'm averaging single core and multi core fp and int SPEC numbers. If your workload isn't heavily parallelizable, that might not make sense. I'm not too worried about single core performance myself these days and have been tempted to remove it entirely. One other thing I forgot to mention: v5 Xeon CPUs will be shipping in quantity early 2017, so you may want to consider holding off and looking for better deals on v4 CPUs then. Likewise, you might be able to obtain a better deal today on v3 CPUs, particularly if you aren't using a large vendor like Dell or HPE. All of my pricing is list (I don't pay these prices), so the math changes significantly if you can get a disproportionate deal on a particular model. I use it as a place to start the conversation with my VAR, and then go with what makes sense in the market right now.