According to Wikipedia this is one of the rare v3 CPUs that works with DDR3 RAM. So I could re-use my existing 8x 16GB DDR3 Sticks in an 2011-3 board until prices for DDR4 and the more beefy E5 v3/4 parts go down?cinebench r15 for e-2686 v3 stock 1 cpu: 1988
So with dual cpu I should be able to easily beat 1950x. but that comes at the price of having to go with higher price of 2011 v3 and DDR4