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I have a Asus rampage III motherboard + i7-990x here. At stock speeds and voltage, stock fan, with prime95 running for around 30 minutes using 12 workers. My peak temperatures in speedfan 4.43 are: CPU: 60C Core 0-4 between around 45-50 Bumping it up to 4ghz from 3.47 at same voltage...

Pretty much, yeah. I just want the best CPU possible while giving me room to overclock.

This machine will be mainly for encoding F4V/FLV and MP3 files after capturing HD streams. I'll be overclocking it and running Raid5 on the raid card. I honestly have only built very simple gaming machines in the past, so I'm wondering if this looks solid to anyone else, or if you have any...

Mainly encoding F4V/FLV files, but also into MP3s as well

I'd like to build a machine who's primary function is to encode HD video and audio. Would it be faster to get an i7-990x and overclock it, or an Xeon X5680? I'm wondering because it was recommended to me to get a Dell poweredge server with dual Xeon X5680s for encoding. Can't really afford...

Hello! The machine that was recommended to us for encoding video/audio was a Dell poweredge server with Dual Xeon X5680s, but it's priced out to about $6000 which is way too much. I was given a $3000 limit to build a custom machine. I've been piecing together parts, but my main question is...