Calling all Xeon E5 26xx users.

[Trey222]

I have created this thread to ask people who own a Xeon E5 26xx about their experience with it/them and for anyone else to share their thoughts on them. I have the E5 2670 8 core and I love it. It is great for rendering and good at gaming too. Definitely a great deal for only 65USD. So leave your comment below on how you feel about your Xeon. 

[NumLock21]

Have a 2620 v3 laying around. Decent cpu, but I wanted something with a higher clock, so I upgraded to a 1650 v3. Don't know what to do with my 2620 v3.

[Stefan1024]

2xE5-2680: despite the build is still under construction, it can boot. I run the large simulations and it is three times faster than the i7-4790k. Not to bad for a few dollars less.

I hope i can one day finde tow cheap E5-2667W v2 to upgrade in a few years.

[Orangeator]

2 minutes ago, Stefan1024 said:

2xE5-2680: despite the build is still under construction, it can boot. I run the large simulations and it is three times faster than the i7-4790k. Not to bad for a few dollars less.

I hope i can one day finde tow cheap E5-2667W v2 to upgrade in a few years.

I think it is arguable to say a pair of E5-2670's are the best budget to performance CPU's on the market (for multi-threaded use, however they still game fine). 

[Atmos]

I own two E5 2650's one of which is being used in my workstation for adobe creative suite work, and sony vegas rendering; the other is being used in my personal game server for running arma 3, minecraft, terraria, and other various game servers. They both have worked fantastically, seriously. I got both for a steal at 500 for the pair back a few years ago in 2013. They still run great, and do everything I could need them to.

[Electronics Wizardy]

11 minutes ago, Stefan1024 said:

2xE5-2680: despite the build is still under construction, it can boot. I run the large simulations and it is three times faster than the i7-4790k. Not to bad for a few dollars less.

I hope i can one day finde tow cheap E5-2667W v2 to upgrade in a few years.

Could you run cinebench and the blender bmw benchmark. Im curious how they would perform and if its worth it for me to buy.

[Trey222]

3 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Could you run cinebench and the blender bmw benchmark. Im curious how they would perform and if its worth it for me to buy.

I have a cinebench for a single E5 2670. Here is is. I was pretty happy with this score for only spending 65 on the CPU. Getting a second one on the future would be nice. 

[Trey222]

3 hours ago, Stefan1024 said:

2xE5-2680: despite the build is still under construction, it can boot. I run the large simulations and it is three times faster than the i7-4790k. Not to bad for a few dollars less.

I hope i can one day finde tow cheap E5-2667W v2 to upgrade in a few years.

It would be nice to pick up a V2 in the future. 

[SLAYR]

I have an E5 2670 and it is a great cpu, all I need to go with it now is a lot of ecc ddr3.

[online_olympian]

I love it. 

 

[Stefan1024]

8 hours ago, Orangeator said:

I think it is arguable to say a pair of E5-2670's are the best budget to performance CPU's on the market (for multi-threaded use, however they still game fine). 

I was after the best performance for my budget. And they run at 3.2 GHz on all cores what is a lot of performance.

7 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Could you run cinebench and the blender bmw benchmark. Im curious how they would perform and if its worth it for me to buy.

Here you are:

[Orangeator]

8 hours ago, Stefan1024 said:

I was after the best performance for my budget. And they run at 3.2 GHz on all cores what is a lot of performance.

Here you are:

Damn, yep. Two cheap Xeons smoke a i7-5960x in multi threaded (20cb behind in single thread) tasks. So actually even for gaming they will do okay. I think it is official, Xeon E5-2670's/E5-2680's are the best budget to performance CPU. As long as you have the motherboard. 

 

 

Source: http://www.anandtech.com/show/8426/the-intel-haswell-e-cpu-review-core-i7-5960x-i7-5930k-i7-5820k-tested/5

[Electronics Wizardy]

9 hours ago, Stefan1024 said:

I was after the best performance for my budget. And they run at 3.2 GHz on all cores what is a lot of performance.

Here you are:

 

Thank You . Looks like it might be worth it for me to upgrade my render rig one day. Thats much faster than my e3 1231v3 at rendering.

[online_olympian]

11 hours ago, Stefan1024 said:

I was after the best performance for my budget. And they run at 3.2 GHz on all cores what is a lot of performance.

Here you are:

How did you get that much of an overclock? 

[Stefan1024]

Just now, online_olympian said:

How did you get that much of an overclock? 

The frequency you see is the one core turbo boost. On all cores it's 3,2 GHz.

I have a BCLK of 104 MHz.

[skitz9417]

On 05/04/2016 at 5:39 AM, Trey222 said:

I have a cinebench for a single E5 2670. Here is is. I was pretty happy with this score for only spending 65 on the CPU. Getting a second one on the future would be nice. 

sorry to open up a old thead but i was just how is sony vegas with this cpu im thinking about getting for long rendering aka long gameplays i would like to speed up the time 

[Trey222]

On 9/15/2016 at 9:49 PM, skitz9417 said:

sorry to open up a old thead but i was just how is sony vegas with this cpu im thinking about getting for long rendering aka long gameplays i would like to speed up the time 

 

This CPU would do just fine in Vegas but I would invest more in a GPU because rendering is much faster with a GPU.