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General Category => General CG Discussion => Hardware => Topic started by: subpixelsk on 2018-08-24, 11:39:34

Title: CPU upgrade
Post by: subpixelsk on 2018-08-24, 11:39:34

Hi guys I would like to know if it is good idea to upgrade from e5 2670 v0 (pair) to e5 2697 v2 which are the best cpu my board supports I guess (Asus z9pe d8)

according to corona benchmark I would gain around 35% of performance for around 700 euro

Thanks for advice

Title: Re: CPU upgrade
Post by: subpixelsk on 2018-08-27, 19:06:59

So I found pair of these xeons for 615 euro. I checked Corona benchmark, Cinebench etc. and they should perform +- the same as 1950x build. Given that another 1950x build would cost new motherboard and ram I guess this is good choice :)

Title: Re: CPU upgrade
Post by: Juraj on 2018-08-28, 12:27:30

If you want to get as much from your current workstation, that might be the only way to do so.

I am also sad to give away my 2670v2 because despite being very slow in multithreaded performance by current contemporaries, it has 64GB memory which alone now costs more than the whole PC is worth in terms of performance :- ).
So I'll keep it for our modeler.

Upgrading to 1950X wouldn't make much sense exactly because of what you write, the obscene memory price compared to only getting 50 +/- perc. better performance. You can get 1950X for 500 Euro right now on internet, but 64GB memory ? 700+ Euro.

Title: Re: CPU upgrade
Post by: subpixelsk on 2018-08-28, 12:29:51

thanks Juraj for the advice :)