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>Building a new computer this summer, currently looking at dual Xeons (X5460 or alike) and a GTX 970.
Anyone have any experience with building dual 771? I'm worried about noise level and the price to performance.
Also what is Sup Forums running or planning on building?
>dual xeons meme
currently running
Intel i5 661 (dual core at 3.3GHz)
AMD Radeon HD 6850 (just a 1GB card, nothing special)
8GB DDr3
128GB SSD
750GB HDD
I am running a 5820k on X99 2011-3 because the only reason to build on an older platform such as 771, 1366, or 2011 is if you already own the motherboard you need. Old motherboards in good condition are very expensive unless you get lucky and find one being thrown out.
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I have a e5450 and a r7 260x on my secondary machine .
Pretty comf.
Had a r9 290 with a [email protected] , and it still bottlenecked 290 pretty heavily in some games.
I wouldn't really recommend dual xeons tho doubt that it'll make much difference in goyims, if it's for other workloads that will use dual cpus than go for it.
270x would be as high as I'd go on ayymd , 960 on jewidia
Why do you need dual xeons but only a 970?
Ok, fair enough, how recent would you recommend looking, all the way up to skylake or Haswell/Broadwell, i'm a student so money is a factor
My mate is selling me the 970 at about the price of a secondhand 960 and anything better would be way to expensive
oh and the PC would somewhat double as a server (and most likely be retired to a dedicated one when i next upgrade), i have a couple of smaller computers for tv and such with my housemates
Really depends what you're doing.
If you're doing shit that can be 100% parralelized and will scale great with MORE CORES, then buy whatever is going to give you the most number of cores for the cheapest price. Since you are looking at older xeons, this means you will need to research prices on ebay for awhile.
If however you don't think you can scale whatever you're doing over 10+ cores, then instead start looking at newer higher clocked CPUs.
It would help to know your budget as you can buy a new 5820k and motherboard for around $500 which is a 6 core 12 thread CPU with 15MB L3 Cache and can OC to ~4.3GHz+ on each core.
That's is probably your best NEW bang for buck. But again, it depends on your budget and what exactly you're doing.
How much would the 970 be ?
Also do you already have a 775 or 771 mobo?
If nope I don't think it's worth it because MOBO and RAM for 775/771 usually ain't as good a deal as this xeons themselves are
Socket 771 motherboards are actually really cheap - dual socket server boards are usually less than $50, and the Xeons are silly cheap too; usually $35 for a matched pair of 3 ghz quad core ones. The tricky part is finding heatsinks; socket 771 needs its own special snowflake heatsink attachedment, and even stock Intel HSF will cost you a bit more than the Xeons themselves.
> dual Xenons
PAJEET MY SON
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You can usually get the xeons and a server board for cheap, which is why it's a popular option
771 is shit when dual socket 1366 can be had for peanuts
Eh fair enough, I was really interested only because I had 775 mobo with e8400 and I got e5450 for 23 usd and x5470 for some 35 usd (pretty lucky on both, some ebay seller from korea)
Haven't really used a dual cpu mobo so yeah, but 1366 might be a better option if you're going to buy both new a mobo/ram and cpus
>and a server board for cheap
citation needed. used server boards are always stupid fucking expensive unless you find someone who doesn't know what they have on their hands.
peanuts? they're at least 3 or 4 times the price
Unless you literally have like $100 to spend on a system, skip 771. They're hot garbage and will probably bottleneck your fancy GPU. I know that my 771 build bottled my GTX 590 even in easy shit like CUDA.
1366 has better performance, power consumption, price:performance, better peripherals (PCIe 3 is available, DDR3 is everywhere) and has much better upgrade paths. Motherboards will be more expensive, but its worth it since you won't have to buy a new one as soon.
Or go to a quad socket LGA 1567 system and really blast assholes wide open.
Bitch, pls.
What do you use it for?
Dual LGA771 demi-god race reporting
Dual LGA2011 master race reporting
LGA771 is limited in heatsinks that can be made to fit, the LGA775 coolers are not compatible. That being said Thermaltake has a decent cooler that is quiet as well. The Dynatron coolers are very loud but they also work well. Watercooling is pretty much out of the question.
The X5492 Xeon is the top dog you can get a matched pair for cheap. It's 3.4/12m/1600mhz. Avoid the Intel S5000 motherboard unless you have the case, or active cooling on the memory. The FB-DDR2 RAM made for it will get hot try to find an active cooling solution for it, especially if sticks are populated next to each other.
It does goyims pretty well I can play Warframe max res with all the eye candy on, with a piddly ATi HD5750 Radeon card. You'll like the dual Xeons but throw down for the quad core chips, you can get quads for cheap.
>Socket 771 motherboards are actually really cheap
Because they're fucking worthless.
$60 E5 2670 8 core/16 thread Xeon (3.3 Gh ) + $100 dell used mobo + $40/50 RAM + $50-60 PSU + $200 RX480
~$450-$500 build
Alternatively, hit up craigslist. Get a cheap used prebuilt with i3-i5-i7 for about $100 and add in $200 RX480 or another used GPU for dirt cheap
Should I buy this?
4790K @ 4.7GHz currently. Broadwell-E doesn't seem that amazing at all and I don't plan on buying a newer Intel quad core any time soon, so it's basically all up to Zen to prove absolutely amazing and make me switch, but it probably won't be that great.
No, get a 2670
>stupid fucking expensive
If they're worth a shit.
Most are fucking crap.
Fx 6300
Hd6870
8gb of ram
I plan on getting a 100$ or 150$ Polaris card
I copped my LGA771 setup years ago, when it was still a very relevant system, for the cool price of free. Hit up your local electronics surplus yards you would be surprised what you find. I paid 100 for the HD5850 Radeon when that was a relevant card and had maybe 200 into the whole system after it was all said and done
Server boards can be had for nothing if you look.
You can get a 2667 V2 for that price.
Fell for the 2670 meme also. Gonna run Ubongu on it and use it as shitposter station. Still waiting for the rest of the parts.
>2x 2670 SR0KX - $100
>64GB DDR3 RDIMM ECC - $90
>LSI 9240-i8 - $60
>Supermicro X9DAi - $420
>other parts - $400
2011v1 motherboards = expensive
SSI EEB motherboards are huge, 12x13 inches.
Be sure that the case will fit before you order.
>64GB DDR3 RDIMM ECC - $90
I hope those were 8GB DIMMs.
This is dumb
You want the most efficient cost/performance when buying old shit, not expensive old shit. Jesus christ.
Yes, no idea if all the chips are working until i get the rest of the build thou.
>buying used ram on ebay
>from china
>yolo
Probably stolen from some company in Shenzhen like all those ES CPU's on ebay.