Depends completely on what you want to do, and whether the application scales more than 4 threads.
So rendering, measured with something like CineBench 10 shows +50% improvement in rendering times.
But games show little or even negative improvement, they show little improvement going from 2 to 4 or 4 to 6 cores so 12/24 isn't going to make any difference
But as a server or distributed computing or scientific computing machine, thats where multi cpus and especially the SR-2 because it can be overclocked to improve results even more
Project Gemini Rebuild (SR-2)
- Thread starter Biffa
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Soldato
Great build - seriously hope that they bring out an SR3 for the sandy bridge hex/octo cores.
Well seeing as the Socket B2 (LGA 1356) Sandy Bridge-EP Xeons aren't due till Q4-2011 we might be in for a long wait, and thats for 2 sockets.
It'd be interesting what the quad socket Socket R (LGA 2011) Sandy Bridge-EX (8/16) scales up like, but probably mad expensive unless you can get dirt cheap ones on the bay like BaBa
It'd be interesting what the quad socket Socket R (LGA 2011) Sandy Bridge-EX (8/16) scales up like, but probably mad expensive unless you can get dirt cheap ones on the bay like BaBa
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Just completed my sr-2 5690's set up in a tj11
try and get pics up soon.
try and get pics up soon.
Soldato
Excellent choice of case
Depends on the WU but normally around 140-150K PPD
Not as impressive as a quad dodecacore Opteron box @ 450K but hey
I could probably punch that up to nearer 200K if I used Linux instead of Windows, but haven't been able to find one that will load my VM's yet.
Not as impressive as a quad dodecacore Opteron box @ 450K but hey
I could probably punch that up to nearer 200K if I used Linux instead of Windows, but haven't been able to find one that will load my VM's yet.
Associate
Nice work mate, im running exactly the same as you with my x5650's @ 191x22 producing 4.2ghz and im seeing ~185,000 PPD on Ubuntu 10.10 on the better projects such as a P6901 