Soldato
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- 14 Apr 2014
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Hi Chaps
The motherboard in my main PC has just packed up, and last month my server died too.
I was contemplating getting a Ryzen machine to replace my cobbled together server - but now my main PC needs work, too I'm thinking I should just bite the bullet and build one large machine to replace both.
I would keep my current GTX 970, case, drives and PSU.
Current spec (well until earlier):
- Dual Xeon x5660's (2.8/3.2) 6c12t (each)
- Supermicro X8DTN-F
- 144 GB ECC 10600R
- GTX 970
- Samsung Pro SSD (250) Sata
- Other assorted drives, USB 3 card, WiFi card, SATA 3 controller, sound card etc
Has been a great machine, but was showing its age, and has limitations, such as no PCIEx16 :O
Machine is used for development work mainly, so lots of VMs are running day to day, also play a few games, current system wasn't the best thing to game on, but it had enough grunt to get by in most titles, but less so in more recent stuff.
So I'm thinking about this shopping list:
-64 GB Corsair LPX DDR4 2666 (4x16GB)
-500 GB Samsung 960 Evo M2
-Threadripper 1920X
-Asus Prime X399-A
So with cooling (air) thats £2K - and I think the cheapest way for me to build a system that at least doesn't leave me with less cores and threads than I have now...
Part of me wants to stick with Intel, but I'm not sure I could get close on price / performance if I go Xeon again. Another part of me thinks that even an 8 core 16 thread CPU would trounce my current system - as long as it was modern and near 4ghzish, so save the money and go i7/R7... but though this would be true for sure in synthetic benchmarks, the real world perf I get for virtualisation tasks and compiling stuff is incredible, and 64gb RAM limit down the line...
So GH, what would you do with 2K for the core of a new system? Needs to be at least as quick as Dual x5660's @ 3.2
Help!
And thanks!
The motherboard in my main PC has just packed up, and last month my server died too.
I was contemplating getting a Ryzen machine to replace my cobbled together server - but now my main PC needs work, too I'm thinking I should just bite the bullet and build one large machine to replace both.
I would keep my current GTX 970, case, drives and PSU.
Current spec (well until earlier):
- Dual Xeon x5660's (2.8/3.2) 6c12t (each)
- Supermicro X8DTN-F
- 144 GB ECC 10600R
- GTX 970
- Samsung Pro SSD (250) Sata
- Other assorted drives, USB 3 card, WiFi card, SATA 3 controller, sound card etc
Has been a great machine, but was showing its age, and has limitations, such as no PCIEx16 :O
Machine is used for development work mainly, so lots of VMs are running day to day, also play a few games, current system wasn't the best thing to game on, but it had enough grunt to get by in most titles, but less so in more recent stuff.
So I'm thinking about this shopping list:
-64 GB Corsair LPX DDR4 2666 (4x16GB)
-500 GB Samsung 960 Evo M2
-Threadripper 1920X
-Asus Prime X399-A
So with cooling (air) thats £2K - and I think the cheapest way for me to build a system that at least doesn't leave me with less cores and threads than I have now...
Part of me wants to stick with Intel, but I'm not sure I could get close on price / performance if I go Xeon again. Another part of me thinks that even an 8 core 16 thread CPU would trounce my current system - as long as it was modern and near 4ghzish, so save the money and go i7/R7... but though this would be true for sure in synthetic benchmarks, the real world perf I get for virtualisation tasks and compiling stuff is incredible, and 64gb RAM limit down the line...
So GH, what would you do with 2K for the core of a new system? Needs to be at least as quick as Dual x5660's @ 3.2
Help!
And thanks!
