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Someone was chatting to me today about picking up X5670 cpus for $50-$60. Compared to my 6600K they seem quite competitive: http://ark.intel.com/compare/83352,8
by daurnimator 9y ago
Someone was chatting to me today about picking up X5670 cpus for $50-$60. Compared to my 6600K they seem quite competitive: http://ark.intel.com/compare/83352,88191,47920 http://ark.intel.com/compare/83352,88191,47920
- ansible 9y agoYou can also buy used Xeon workstations and put in a new GPU card. The main problem is that the cooling isn't especially quiet, and they have proprietary motherboards and power supplies.
- dom0 9y agoThe PSUs are still essentially ATX, so that's usually not a big problem. Form factor on the other hand... well. Sometimes they really go off the reservation there.
- paulmd 9y agoNot necessarily. I have a HP Z400 workstation with what appears to be an ATX PSU... but some of the pins are swapped and it won't actually boot with a non-OEM PSU. You can make an adapter, but in general it's not a safe assumption that this class of systems are compatible with off-the-shelf PSUs. These are OEM systems and the only thing that is guaranteed to work is OEM parts. https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=47754 https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=47754
- nisa 9y agoIf you don't need good single thread performance and don't care about Performance/Watt that much you can get used servers for very little money with lot's of DDR3 memory (128GB+) and these X5670 als dual cpu systems. If you don't do anything fancy you get 80% of performance for 20% of the price of a new system.
- dogma1138 9y agoOr PCIE performance since the PCIE is still on the chipset on those CPUs.