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"beat the pants"? Compared to Ryzen, E3-1240 V2 has: half the cores, half the L3 cache, half the memory throughput of Ryzen, no AVX2, etc. Plus average price is
by mrb 10y ago
"beat the pants"? Compared to Ryzen, E3-1240 V2 has: half the cores, half the L3 cache, half the memory throughput of Ryzen, no AVX2, etc. Plus average price is more like $300-350 http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-PowerEdge-R210-II-1U-Rackmount-Server-E3-1240v2-CPU-250W-PSU-/191818994654?hash=item2ca94d93de:g:QaMAAOSwZG9WjaOJ http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-PowerEdge-R210-II-1U-Rackmount-... And it's still comparing apples to oranges favoring Intel. Wait a few months and compare used Ryzen gear to that old Intel gear...
- chx 10y agoCheck price per performance please. And I said workstation, not sure why everyone is looking at rack servers? http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-Z220-SFF-Workstation-E3-1240-V2-QC-3-40Ghz-8Gb-1Tb-DVD-RW-Windows-7-Pro-I-/391718183147?hash=item5b343920eb:g:xMYAAOSw44BYi9N7 http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-Z220-SFF-Workstation-E3-1240-V2-Q...
- psandersen 10y agoDepends on your needs, dual socket xeon servers can be had with huge amounts of ram if you shop around. E.g. I got an IBM 3650 m2 with 2x L5640 and 128gb of ecc ram for $200. For my needs (heavy data processing on a budget) its been awesome.