recent sold 2699 v4 go forr arounf $300e5-2699 v4 seems to be in $160 ballpark. It feels like for a workstation a single threaded performance can matter a bit more?
These CPU's and others are typically only really suggested for hosting services if you ask me. Then again price for performance is quite nice for those wanting server features such as ECC ram, and more PCIe lanes and drive support.the 2697's v4 are sometimes under $100 too.
It is weird comparing these old (like 8 year) monster cpu's against a modern one. Newer cpu's the clock speed is much higher and the instructions per clock is much higher.
For gaming this will often result in higher performance because games often only can use 4 to 8 cores with diminishing returns.
And, I dunno, my Quicken software seems to be single threaded too. Maybe some javascript. A single iperf stream. who knows.
But I think it depends on what your workstation is doing. If you're doing a lot of big render jobs, they will probably be able to use all the cores you throw at it, for instance.
I'm actually about to replace my E5 2480 v4 with a I7-7700K. Only four cores instead of fourteen. cpubenchmark says the big old cpu is only twice as fast though. But my main home server requirements need better idle power usage and the igpu quick sync transcoding, so it should be more useful.
If you go low end then sure, but an B550/X570 board goes for at least $100 and a decent AM4 5000 series CPU goes for at least $200. Non ECC DDR4 costs like twice than LRDIMMs.IMHO, a modern multicore consumer CPU + motherboard is probably a similar price to these really cheap "outdated" Xeon multicore processor + motherboard given the current motherboard pricing. The modern consumer CPU system has some sizeable advantages for most users.
An "outdated" Xeon multicore processor is still potentially useful if you want ECC, have need of extremely large core counts, or perhaps need a pile of memory.
I'm just jumping in here to say... That was exactly my sentiment for my homeserver of the past 10 years (E5 V3 generation). However, I hit far too many limits with that way of thinking.If you go low end then sure, but an B550/X570 board goes for at least $100 and a decent AM4 5000 series CPU goes for at least $200. Non ECC DDR4 costs like twice than LRDIMMs.
For less than $500 I got a board with SAS controller+10 SATA III ports, 16 core E5-2697a v4 and 128GB DDR4-2400.
The only advantage I see of using more modern consumer hardware as a server is lower power consumption and hihger single core performance.
I'm not sure how you did that... Typical market prices for those three are more than $500 combined. The CPU is $140, the RAM is $200'ish, socket 2011-v3 motherboards are $250+. And, you got a CPU that's got a comparable Passmark score to a Ryzen 5600x with >2x the power consumption. For most buyers this is not a good tradeoff. They don't need 128GB of RAM or ECC.If you go low end then sure, but an B550/X570 board goes for at least $100 and a decent AM4 5000 series CPU goes for at least $200. Non ECC DDR4 costs like twice than LRDIMMs.
For less than $500 I got a board with SAS controller+10 SATA III ports, 16 core E5-2697a v4 and 128GB DDR4-2400.
The only advantage I see of using more modern consumer hardware as a server is lower power consumption and hihger single core performance.