6 core vs 8 core?

[militant83]

2 hours ago, asand1 said:

How about saving money by building a Xeon machine? No need do pay extra for an APU. 

You know never thought of that since I dont game. What would you reccomend if you are familiar with xeon machines?

[asand1]

My very limited experience is with LGA 1366. I was lucky enough to be given a Sabertooth X58. If you can find an LGA 1366 motherboard it should support an LGA 1366 Xeon. There are newer ones as well, however I have no first hand knowledge of these newer systems. Xeons are typically $100 cheaper than their i7 counterparts, and even go to 12 core and higher. You would have to research this. Linus and others have some youtube videos on the subject. The quad core E5640 I just bought was only $15USD.

[pyrojoe34]

I also recommend a 6800k and GTX1080 with plenty of fast drives. The advantage to i7 over Xeon is higher clock speed and OC-ability which will benefit you in some workstation uses (not all programs use multi-threading well including some current Adobe products). Anything above the 6800k will probably be overkill though. The 1080 will really help with CUDA-acceleration which will be great for 4k editing and any 3D work you may do. Get a fast boot/program drive (like a PCIe drive) and 2 or so more SSDs as cache and working drives. Then a larger HDD for bulk storage. Shoot for 32-64GB of RAM. All that will probably run you about $2k (including PSU/case/etc) not including any peripherals (like monitors) you may want to buy.

[SLAYR]

4 hours ago, militant83 said:

You know never thought of that since I dont game. What would you reccomend if you are familiar with xeon machines?

Even with a $2000-$3000 machine that isn't enough for a decent xeon, if you want anything better then a 6900k, then you are looking at the 12 core xeons at least and they will be $1000-$2000 a piece.

[SLAYR]

6 hours ago, asand1 said:

How about saving money by building a Xeon machine? No need do pay extra for an APU. 

All of the intel extreme cpus don't have an igpu including x58,x79, and x99, and "APU" is for AMD cpus that have an igpu.

[militant83]

On 10/24/2016 at 8:37 AM, SLAYR said:

Even with a $2000-$3000 machine that isn't enough for a decent xeon, if you want anything better then a 6900k, then you are looking at the 12 core xeons at least and they will be $1000-$2000 a piece.

The 6900k is 8 cores at 3.5ghz and Broadwell E at just over 1k 

 

wouldnt running a duel quad core setup using two xeon E5 1620s give you the same results at a cheaper price? They are 3.5ghz Broadwell EP

[SLAYR]

5 hours ago, militant83 said:

The 6900k is 8 cores at 3.5ghz and Broadwell E at just over 1k 

 

wouldnt running a duel quad core setup using two xeon E5 1620s give you the same results at a cheaper price? They are 3.5ghz Broadwell EP

You can't run dual e5 1620s to run dual cpus you would need an e5 2xxx/4xxx cpu. Scaling with dual cpus isn't hoingto be perfect, and the board will be way more expensive, plus the 6900k can overclock to 4+ GHz at least for most chips.