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strategyfreak
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Hey Forum readers,
Since people here seem to be more knowledgable about hardware than most enthusiast forums, as opposed to the typical slew of posts from 15 year olds too lazy to use a search function having difficulty overclocking unlocked CPUs on a "leet pr0 gaming" motherboards, I figured I'd ask this question here.
I'm currently trying to build a workstation whose primary purpose will be doing calculations and maybe some data analysis/machine learning in the future. The programs used generally scale pretty well out to 48 threads or so, but benefits a lot from higher clock speed. As a reference, the current system is a dual X5660 setup on an EVGA SR-2 @ 4.21GHz with 80GB of RAM (setup with much help from the guides on this forum). Unfortunately, this is now too slow for my needs, and time on this machine is now also split with other computing needs as well.
Most potential replacements out there don't seem to offer enough improved performance to justify the cost, such as the 2687w v4, and most of the newer Xeons seem to offer many cores but low clockspeed. The 6950x is exorbitantly priced for what it offers (only 10 cores and RAM limitations), and if reports of degradation turn out to be common, not feasible for long term use. I've even considered getting a used sandy bridge-ep setup for cheap as a stopgap to at least give me some dedicated computing power.
As a long term replacement, I've been thinking about getting the Xeon E5-2679v4 in a dual setup on a workstation board like the supermicro X10DAX or the asus Z10PE-D16 WS. I'd like to use at least 256 GB of ram and have the PCI-E slots for potential compute acceleration in the future. SSD interfaces are not as important - SATA SSD will be used as the scratch directory and a regular HD used for storage. The E5-2679v4 has 20 cores and 3.3 GHz all core boost, which would be ideal for my uses. It also can be found for reasonable prices (albeit not new), as low as $1800. Unfortunately doesn't seem to be all that common (not sold at retail, seems to be designed for eBay custom use), so I haven't found any reports of it used in a dual socket configuration, although there are some people using it in X99 enthusiast boards. I am worried a little about the 200w TDP, although more from the power delivery standpoint (especially since enthusiast boards are usually designed for greater power consumption than design, while the workstation boards may not be) since heat can be ameliorated with water cooling or a good air cooler. Does anyone here have experience with this chip, particularly in a dual cpu setup? If not, do you have any other recommendations for processors?
Many thanks in advance for your advice and help.
Since people here seem to be more knowledgable about hardware than most enthusiast forums, as opposed to the typical slew of posts from 15 year olds too lazy to use a search function having difficulty overclocking unlocked CPUs on a "leet pr0 gaming" motherboards, I figured I'd ask this question here.
I'm currently trying to build a workstation whose primary purpose will be doing calculations and maybe some data analysis/machine learning in the future. The programs used generally scale pretty well out to 48 threads or so, but benefits a lot from higher clock speed. As a reference, the current system is a dual X5660 setup on an EVGA SR-2 @ 4.21GHz with 80GB of RAM (setup with much help from the guides on this forum). Unfortunately, this is now too slow for my needs, and time on this machine is now also split with other computing needs as well.
Most potential replacements out there don't seem to offer enough improved performance to justify the cost, such as the 2687w v4, and most of the newer Xeons seem to offer many cores but low clockspeed. The 6950x is exorbitantly priced for what it offers (only 10 cores and RAM limitations), and if reports of degradation turn out to be common, not feasible for long term use. I've even considered getting a used sandy bridge-ep setup for cheap as a stopgap to at least give me some dedicated computing power.
As a long term replacement, I've been thinking about getting the Xeon E5-2679v4 in a dual setup on a workstation board like the supermicro X10DAX or the asus Z10PE-D16 WS. I'd like to use at least 256 GB of ram and have the PCI-E slots for potential compute acceleration in the future. SSD interfaces are not as important - SATA SSD will be used as the scratch directory and a regular HD used for storage. The E5-2679v4 has 20 cores and 3.3 GHz all core boost, which would be ideal for my uses. It also can be found for reasonable prices (albeit not new), as low as $1800. Unfortunately doesn't seem to be all that common (not sold at retail, seems to be designed for eBay custom use), so I haven't found any reports of it used in a dual socket configuration, although there are some people using it in X99 enthusiast boards. I am worried a little about the 200w TDP, although more from the power delivery standpoint (especially since enthusiast boards are usually designed for greater power consumption than design, while the workstation boards may not be) since heat can be ameliorated with water cooling or a good air cooler. Does anyone here have experience with this chip, particularly in a dual cpu setup? If not, do you have any other recommendations for processors?
Many thanks in advance for your advice and help.
