Did I downgrade too far?

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Old setup, 3770k with 32gb DDR3-1600 ram


New setup, G530 with 16gb DDR3-1066 ECC ram Decided to keep the 3770k in place.
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I didn't really need to downgrade but decided for what this system does I don't need a 3770k in it either.

It's basically a glorified NAS, but I also use it to record video via motion detection with IP & USB cameras and it transcodes video via Air Video Server for my iPads.
 
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No need to ask anyone, just check if it does what you want.
 
So far it seems to be holding up but I haven't taxed it too much yet.
 
Why didn't you just keep what you had? It doesn't make sense to me why you would downgrade or change anything when you already had something already that was better. So, what did you do with the 3770k?
 
The 3770k is listed up for trade. I'm hoping over the longer term, I'll migrate this server over to LGA2011. I have a board, ram and cooler but I need a CPU. I was just hoping this would get by until I finally picked out a CPU I want on LGA2011.
 
This is backward.
You downgraded for no reason and are planning an even more expensive upgrade for no reason that wont net you any benefit over what you got rid of in the first place.
 
Gillbot said:
The 3770k is listed up for trade. I'm hoping over the longer term, I'll migrate this server over to LGA2011. I have a board, ram and cooler but I need a CPU. I was just hoping this would get by until I finally picked out a CPU I want on LGA2011.
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I still don't understand. You bought new parts so you could trade your 3770k for a 2011 cpu? Why didn't you just keep the old rig and buy the 2011 cpu?
 
King Icewind said:
I still don't understand. You bought new parts so you could trade your 3770k for a 2011 cpu? Why didn't you just keep the old rig and buy the 2011 cpu?
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Yeah, you really don't understand.

I can trade the 3770k for a 3820, which is basically a wash in terms of performance. However, the LGA2011 platform is still plenty worthwhile and can support more ram so if in the long run it costs me nothing to upgrade (which so far it hasn't) then why wouldn't I part out a 3770k system for a basically free upgrade to a better platform?
 
Overall, no. That's my main hold back right now. This is more of a hold over server until I get the 2011 rig going. The 3770k was great but overall I need more ram.

Besides my home use on this "server", I crunch databases for work on it and CPU power isn't the bottleneck. When I went from 24GB to 48gb on X58 the time savings crunching data was substantial. Same happened on x79 when I went from 32gb to 64gb. In a few tests on a work system, the jump from 64gb to 128 was even more noticeable, so my plan is to use my rig as a justification to get them to upgrade me to a much better platform suited for what I need, good I/O and absurd amounts of ram.

EDIT: the main purpose of this thread was more to see if anyone knew how much CPU power transcoding video with Air Video requires.
 
I think you'd be less likely to run into stuttering issues with a "low end" quad like a i5 2310 or something than a dual core celeron. I was mulling over the same issue and went with an older SB i5.
 
kirbyrj said:
I think you'd be less likely to run into stuttering issues with a "low end" quad like a i5 2310 or something than a dual core celeron. I was mulling over the same issue and went with an older SB i5.
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Thank you!!

That is my suspicion as well. I guess I'll probably keep an eye out for a more mid-tier chip over this one. In the mean time, I plan on testing it out a bit tonight and tomorrow to see how well it holds up.

EDIT: Decided to keep the 3770k in place.
 
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