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jihadjoe wrote:I'd go 1-2 steps older get an old Sandy or Ivy Bridge Xeon. 5-10% slower than Haswell, but you get a lot more CPU for a lot less $$$.
You can pick up an E5-2690 for something like $160, which is awesome for an 8C/16T CPU. With sufficient cooling MCE will happily lock all cores to 3.8GHz.
just brew it! wrote:WTF... who is buying these things? There must be a bunch of other people like you out there trying to re-use a bunch of old DDR3 RAM (due to the current high RAM prices) or something.
JBI wrote:WTF... who is buying these things? There must be a bunch of other people like you out there trying to re-use a bunch of old DDR3 RAM (due to the current high RAM prices) or something. There can't be very many people out there who are still trying to do "last gasp" CPU upgrades on their old Phenom II systems.
jihadjoe wrote:I'd go 1-2 steps older get an old Sandy or Ivy Bridge Xeon. 5-10% slower than Haswell, but you get a lot more CPU for a lot less $$$.
DrDominodog51 wrote:JBI wrote:WTF... who is buying these things? There must be a bunch of other people like you out there trying to re-use a bunch of old DDR3 RAM (due to the current high RAM prices) or something. There can't be very many people out there who are still trying to do "last gasp" CPU upgrades on their old Phenom II systems.
FX series chips will likely remain relatively expensive into the future for this. Yang binned hundreds of FX CPUs to get one that clocks so high.
just brew it! wrote:I can't imagine there are more than a half-dozen people remaining in the world (if there's anyone left at this point) who would go to that much effort and expense just for a shot at OC bragging rights on a 5 year old CPU.
http://hwbot.org/benchmark/cpu_frequency/rankings?hardwareTypeId=processor_3742&cores=8#start=0#interval=20#familyId=351
DrDominodog51 wrote:just brew it! wrote:I can't imagine there are more than a half-dozen people remaining in the world (if there's anyone left at this point) who would go to that much effort and expense just for a shot at OC bragging rights on a 5 year old CPU.
There are more than you think.(phpBB doesn't like this URL)Code: Select allhttp://hwbot.org/benchmark/cpu_frequency/rankings?hardwareTypeId=processor_3742&cores=8#start=0#interval=20#familyId=351
Piledriver and one generation of Netburst are the only architectures that can clock so high. Accordingly, FX 8 cores will likely hold the world's highest CPU frequency for a long time.