New F@H rig.

[awesomecdudley]

So I'm looking at buying twin X5670 Intel Xeon CPUs, and I was going with 96GB of RAM, but I think that's a necessary cost, so I'm going with 48GB. As far as I know, F@H is not a RAM intensive workload. I also found a Supermicro motherboard with lots of PCIe slots, so I'm hoping to just be able to throw whatever GPUs I can find in there. I would like to know what kind of performance I could expect from these two CPUs. Thanks.

[Saiyan Prince Nitehawk84]

So here's my situation. I was a casual PC gamer, and big time console gamer. For a long while I only played StarCraft 2 on my old Mac Book Pro from 2013. I can tell it's not the right machine for the job as of late because it runs extremely hot and now crashes randomly when I play. So I would like to build a rig that can handle a work load of gaming, content creating, and streaming. I'm not experienced in building computers but would like to try. I have a budget of $1300-$1500 USD. Please help!

[awesomecdudley]

I'm curious, the E5-XXXX v2 CPUs are Ivy Bridge-E, but according to wikipedia, X79 supports sandy bridge-E and Ivy bridge. Does this matter?

[awesomecdudley]

17 minutes ago, yaboistar said:

not much. a 6c12t r5 3600 will get about 150kppd in my testing so you may see about 250kppd on these - at humongous power draw and heat output.

 

i'd say to have a look at an X79 board and a xeon from that era with plenty of PCIe lanes on it - would be a better option to be quite honest.

as of this minute we have some work units that are taking up about 50% of a 3.0 16x connection so you're gonna want an electrical 3.0 8x at a minimum per card.

I'm curious, the E5-XXXX v2 CPUs are Ivy Bridge-E, but according to wikipedia, X79 supports sandy bridge-E and Ivy bridge. Does this matter?

[awesomecdudley]

10 hours ago, yaboistar said:

x79 supports ivy bridge E

thanks. I didn't get the notification because I think the laptop I'm on is too slow to load a website in real time.

[awesomecdudley]

10 hours ago, yaboistar said:

x79 supports ivy bridge E

Also, quick request: Do you have any recommended X79 boards with the X8 wiring?

[awesomecdudley]

47 minutes ago, yaboistar said:

never used x79 myself, just look for one with a bunch of full length pcie slots on it. when fully populated it will reconfigure them down to 8x each i think 

thanks