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If you can snag westmere socket boards for E5/E7 hold on to them. The old westmere E5/E7 socket upgrade CPU's from 3rd parties are dirt cheap literally ~$120 f
by valarauca1 10y ago
If you can snag westmere socket boards for E5/E7 hold on to them.
The old westmere E5/E7 socket upgrade CPU's from 3rd parties are dirt cheap literally ~$120 for a 10/20 thread xeon. Sure it's still a first gen so no AVX, AVX2, AES, etc. But it is still a lot of compute power.
The issue is a 4-8 socket CPU board to fit them in will run you ~$3000.
- shiftpgdn 10y agoThose old 20 thread xeons DRINK power. I wouldn't recommend them unless you're getting your energy for free. (Though there is no such thing as a free lunch.)
- tiernano 10y agothe Westmere E7s seem to be the equivalint of the Xeon X5600 series[1]... so, between 105 and 130w... sticking 4 or 8 of those in a box will blow most power budgets! [1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westmere_(microarchitecture)#Server_.2F_Desktop_processors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westmere_(microarchitecture)#S...