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E5-2630v4 or 6900K

Lord Alibaski

Lord Alibaski

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Which one would you buy if 95% or the time you were using it for is video encoding and your normal day to day PC use...(no gaming on it).

Xeon E5-2630 v4 £629
i7-5960X Extreme £950
i7-6900K £950


Can't make my mind up just yet no rush either go until xmas time. The Xeon is at the front at the minute because of the extra cores and the extra £300 could go on the RAM.

Any advice would be appreciated.

PS....currently using an old 775 system so this would be a huge jump and probably my last build for many years.
 
Lord Alibaski said:
Which one would you buy if 95% or the time you were using it for is video encoding and your normal day to day PC use...(no gaming on it).

Xeon E5-2630 v4 £629
i7-5960X Extreme £950
i7-6900K £950


Can't make my mind up just yet no rush either go until xmas time. The Xeon is at the front at the minute because of the extra cores and the extra £300 could go on the RAM.

Any advice would be appreciated.

PS....currently using an old 775 system so this would be a huge jump and probably my last build for many years.
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I was going to upgrade to the Xeon E5-2630 v4 but don’t think it's compatible with X99 motherboards. If building a new PC, then I would have got the Xeon E5-2630 v4 and an Asus Z10PE-D8 WS motherboards.
 
Go for the i7 5960x. Some of the later ones now available are really overclocking well. I've just upgraded to one for my encoding system and it runs 4.6GHz at 1.23v with DDR4 at 3200MHz with very little vDIMM and system agent volts. Its pretty much double the speed of the Xeon X5650 @ 4.4GHz that it replaced. The 8 cores 16 threads at 4.6GHz seems to be a perfect balance of cores/threads/speed for the encoding I do, hovering at 90-100% CPU usage. (Handbrake 1080p, RF16, very slow).
 
The Xeon is compatible with quite a lot of boards m8 so that wouldn't be the problem.

@ reef the 5960x is 2nd in line.

I don't use Handbrake I use Staxrip because I capture mostly VHS videos and Staxrip gives me much better encodes than Handbrake does.

At the min though I am only seeing 14fps when using x265/mkv this is on a Q9550 and 8GB ram. Just wondering if you have ever used Staxrip and what kind of fps do you get.
 
You're better off with a Xeon E5 1650 or similar if it's a uniprocessor system, the 2xxxx series are mainly for multiprocessor setups.
 
Lord Alibaski said:
The Xeon is compatible with quite a lot of boards m8 so that wouldn't be the problem.

@ reef the 5960x is 2nd in line.

I don't use Handbrake I use Staxrip because I capture mostly VHS videos and Staxrip gives me much better encodes than Handbrake does.

At the min though I am only seeing 14fps when using x265/mkv this is on a Q9550 and 8GB ram. Just wondering if you have ever used Staxrip and what kind of fps do you get.
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Just had a look at the CPU list and you are right, it seems the Asus X99 Deluxe supports the Intel Xeon E5-2630 v4 now;)
 
Would be great if someone could try Staxrip for me if anyone has any of these processors.

I just don't like Handbrake the cropping & deinterlacing of video and end product just seems much better in Staxrip.
 
FredFlint said:
Xeon E5-2630 v4 ES chips can be had for < £180 on ebay, might be worth a try.
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ES is a real lottery. None of them will have retail clockspeeds, so you'll get a performance hit over what you expect, and some features may be disabled, depending on the age of the ES, earlier samples are far more barebones. I've been looking at these extensively, and while it would be nice to get some 18 core 36 thread monster with more cache than my first family computer had HDD, the single core max boost are terrible (<3.0GHz), and they're hit+miss on what supports them and what they support. No Asus X99 board supports v4 xeon ES, you could get a C6xx chipset, but then you're after something totally different, and don't forget the problems listed above with the ES themselves even if you get them working in your system.
 
abui1806 said:
xeon 1680 v3, 8 cores, overclockable seems to be a pretty decent choice.
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I have one on my desk at this very moment.. ;) Not cheap tho! :eek: This was the first single Xeon cpu that went into the mad money spectrum. IIRC they were about £1500 new!I am pretty sure this was a test to see if people would pay silly money for a "Prosumer" CPU.

Best value for money would be 2 x E5-2670 + Second hand Intel/Supermicro/Asus motherboard. The CPUS can be had for about £45 from the US so for less than the price of the new CPU you would get a dual cpu system that would destroy any of those cpus in encoding/rendering/etc...
 
ZXSpectrum said:
All the Asus Workstation Motherboards (X99-E WS, X99-M WS, X99-WS/IPMI) All support the E5-26xxV4 Xeon Cpus... ;)
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The retail ones yes, not the ES CPUs, they have different microcode. I've tried it with my x99m-WS, a v4 Xeon retail works, the ES from eBay gets stuck mid boot, you can get to bios, but not save any changes.
 
Is a chip designed at the time of 2011-v1 going to work in a later v3 socket

MajorMaccas said:
ES is a real lottery. None of them will have retail clockspeeds, so you'll get a performance hit over what you expect, and some features may be disabled, depending on the age of the ES, earlier samples are far more barebones. I've been looking at these extensively, and while it would be nice to get some 18 core 36 thread monster with more cache than my first family computer had HDD, the single core max boost are terrible (<3.0GHz), and they're hit+miss on what supports them and what they support. No Asus X99 board supports v4 xeon ES, you could get a C6xx chipset, but then you're after something totally different, and don't forget the problems listed above with the ES themselves even if you get them working in your system.
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QS similar problems to ES I guess
 
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ASUS Z10-PED8 WS Memory Problem

Hello everyone sorry i am not hijacking your tread, but i have look all around the forum and cannot find where or how to start a new tread, so please can you help.
I have the ASUS Z10-PE D8 WS ,Since April 2016 and cannot get my project setup with 128GB RAM as yet I am using two CPU's they are the Zeon 2620 , i bought a set of 64GB Rams 16x4, they were CT16G4RFD4213- 36FA2 modules, They work ok .I then decide to add another 64GB Rams they are the CT16G4RFD4213-6FB1, When i install they the System will not boot it is showing b7 system initializing i contact Asus support they say that i need to use the same module of RAM, but they will change the Motherboard for me as it maybe a fault on it, i receive the next Motherboard but i am getting the same result, I then contact CRUCIAL Support, they told me that the modules ending with 36FA2 they no longer make them, they are the older modules but they should work with the 36FB1, as they are the same CT16G4RFD4213
36FB1 is the new module i had the 36FA2 exchange for another set of 36FB1, so now i have all 8 sticks of the same CT16G4RFD4213-36FB1 but again when install all 8 sticks it’s the same results
B7 system initializing, Question is this a normal thing to happen and should I have to wait for hours for it to initializing
The Computer did boot up with 7 stick of RAM install both the 36FA2 and the 36FB1 mixed the problem is when a RAM is in DIMMD1 Slot, it don’t move from b7. I change the Bios setting memory frequency to 1600,but the same result,
Latest BIOS is version 3304 x64 build date 06/2/2016 memory on board 7 sticks of RAM shows 114688 Mb,
CPU-Z nothing showing in Slot 4
Please can you help?
Thank you
 
allalone747 said:
Hello everyone sorry i am not hijacking your tread, but i have look all around the forum and cannot find where or how to start a new tread, so please can you help.
I have the ASUS Z10-PE D8 WS ,Since April 2016 and cannot get my project setup with 128GB RAM as yet I am using two CPU's they are the Zeon 2620 , i bought a set of 64GB Rams 16x4, they were CT16G4RFD4213- 36FA2 modules, They work ok .I then decide to add another 64GB Rams they are the CT16G4RFD4213-6FB1, When i install they the System will not boot it is showing b7 system initializing i contact Asus support they say that i need to use the same module of RAM, but they will change the Motherboard for me as it maybe a fault on it, i receive the next Motherboard but i am getting the same result, I then contact CRUCIAL Support, they told me that the modules ending with 36FA2 they no longer make them, they are the older modules but they should work with the 36FB1, as they are the same CT16G4RFD4213
36FB1 is the new module i had the 36FA2 exchange for another set of 36FB1, so now i have all 8 sticks of the same CT16G4RFD4213-36FB1 but again when install all 8 sticks it’s the same results
B7 system initializing, Question is this a normal thing to happen and should I have to wait for hours for it to initializing
The Computer did boot up with 7 stick of RAM install both the 36FA2 and the 36FB1 mixed the problem is when a RAM is in DIMMD1 Slot, it don’t move from b7. I change the Bios setting memory frequency to 1600,but the same result,
Latest BIOS is version 3304 x64 build date 06/2/2016 memory on board 7 sticks of RAM shows 114688 Mb,
CPU-Z nothing showing in Slot 4
Please can you help?
Thank you
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Test each stick individually in the same slot at xmp, then test one known working stick in each of the slots.

It sounds like a faulty slot.

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