E5-2696 V2 CPUs for $325!
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Life's not fair. I'd like a 2696v3 but used prices are currently twice what I would pay, boohoo
If you were to OC your Xeons I would say "way to go BackupProphet", not "that's not fair"
I just went by the vendor recommended based on my board and picked the cheapest off of eBay.
Interesting video. DigitalFoundry has some interesting stuff for those who game. One nice thing with SM Is that I believe they have kept the bios up to date. I don’t have NVME but I’m pretty sure it can handle it.
The coffee Lake chips seem to have a big boost over previous gen. I’m sure Intel might push things given AMD is breathing down their backs. Probably good to keep these old chips going another year
The coffee Lake chips seem to have a big boost over previous gen. I’m sure Intel might push things given AMD is breathing down their backs. Probably good to keep these old chips going another year
8gb sticks are $19:
Cisco 15-12288-01 | Samsung M393B1K70CH0-YH9 8GB PC3L-10600R DDR3 ECC Memory RAM
16gb sticks $32:
Hynix 16GB (1 Stick) HMT42GR7BMR4C-G7 PC3-8500 DDR3 1066 ECC Server Memory Stick | eBay
funy thing was a year ago 8gb sticks were like 12$ or less and 16 were $32. so 8gb sticks gotten a lot more expensive
Cisco 15-12288-01 | Samsung M393B1K70CH0-YH9 8GB PC3L-10600R DDR3 ECC Memory RAM
16gb sticks $32:
Hynix 16GB (1 Stick) HMT42GR7BMR4C-G7 PC3-8500 DDR3 1066 ECC Server Memory Stick | eBay
funy thing was a year ago 8gb sticks were like 12$ or less and 16 were $32. so 8gb sticks gotten a lot more expensive
Nice! guess you are ready for some 1950x equalizing performance. btw are you running win10 with that SM MB? if you are. no random lock up? does your MB support S3 sleep mode?
I am still unsure if I should upgrade from my current E5-2670 setup. The E5-2696v2 seems nice but so is the E5-2667v2. The question is if I really need to maximize cores or go for GHz. I whipped up a small plot to help me decide. I am not entirely satisfied with it, but hey - it's 02:20 am
No one around here buy xeon to do things less than at least 8-12 cores.... if you want an all around cpu at best price performance, 1950x is the way to go. if you want cheapest multithread/$. 2696v2 it is
usually. but i buy them for the RAM capacity. if i can get 512GB ram and a 6GHz 4 core I would be happy.
I've only tried FreeBSD so far. Performance is just sick. Today I will try the new release of PostgreSQL 10 on a 10TB dataset. Still though, I'm really busy with other things the coming days so it may take a few days before I have some feedback.