Inlisting the help of "The Linus" in Xeon recomendations

[DemiSLayer]

Hi. Am a huge fan of LinusTech and watch the YouTube channel all the time.  We have a running joke in here and state that we are a "Linus home" and only watch reviews from linustech. We also call Linus "The Linus"

lol

 

Ok I currently have some older Xeon workstations.   I'm currently wanting to buy cpus for my HP z820 workstation that supports 2011v2 xeon cpus.

I am going to be running 2x gtx 1080 in sli (after my gtx980ti sells)

 

I plan on upgrading to a newer platform later on though as of now I would like to use my workstation.

 

My question is what would be the best cpus to aquire mainly for gaming and streaming broadcasting etc.

 

Compare All	Product Name	Status	Launch Date	# of Cores	TDP	Recommended Customer Price	Processor Graphics ‡
Compare	Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-4603 v2 (10M Cache, 2.20 GHz)	Launched	Q1'14	4	95 W	$551.00
Compare	Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-4607 v2 (15M Cache, 2.60 GHz)	Launched	Q1'14	6	95 W	$885.00
Compare	Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-4610 v2 (16M Cache, 2.30 GHz)	Launched	Q1'14	8	95 W	$1219.00
Compare	Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-4620 v2 (20M Cache, 2.60 GHz)	Launched	Q1'14	8	95 W	$1611.00
Compare	Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-4627 v2 (16M Cache, 3.30 GHz)	Launched	Q1'14	8	130 W	$2108.00
Compare	Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-4640 v2 (20M Cache, 2.20 GHz)	Launched	Q1'14	10	95 W	$2725.00
Compare	Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-4650 v2 (25M Cache, 2.40 GHz)	Launched	Q1'14	10	95 W	$3616.00
Compare	Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-4657L v2 (30M Cache, 2.40 GHz)	Launched	Q1'14	12	115 W	$4394.00
Compare	Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2603 v2 (10M Cache, 1.80 GHz)	Launched	Q3'13	4	80 W	$202.00
Compare	Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2609 v2 (10M Cache, 2.50 GHz)	Launched	Q3'13	4	80 W	$294.00 - $299.00
Compare	Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2620 v2 (15M Cache, 2.10 GHz)	Launched	Q3'13	6	80 W	$406.00 - $410.00
Compare	Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2630 v2 (15M Cache, 2.60 GHz)	Launched	Q3'13	6	80 W	$612.00 - $616.00
Compare	Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2630L v2 (15M Cache, 2.40 GHz)	Launched	Q3'13	6	60 W	$612.00
Compare	Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2637 v2 (15M Cache, 3.50 GHz)	Launched	Q3'13	4	130 W	$996.00
Compare	Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2640 v2 (20M Cache, 2.00 GHz)	Launched	Q3'13	8	95 W	$885.00 - $889.00
Compare	Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2643 v2 (25M Cache, 3.50 GHz)	Launched	Q3'13	6	130 W	$1552.00
Compare	Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2650 v2 (20M Cache, 2.60 GHz)	Launched	Q3'13	8	95 W	$1166.00 - $1171.00
Compare	Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2650L v2 (25M Cache, 1.70 GHz)	Launched	Q3'13	10	70 W	$1219.00
Compare	Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2660 v2 (25M Cache, 2.20 GHz)	Launched	Q3'13	10	95 W	$1389.00 - $1393.00
Compare	Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2667 v2 (25M Cache, 3.30 GHz)	Launched	Q3'13	8	130 W	$2057.00
Compare	Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2670 v2 (25M Cache, 2.50 GHz)	Launched	Q3'13	10	115 W	$1552.00 - $1556.00
Compare	Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2680 v2 (25M Cache, 2.80 GHz)	Launched	Q3'13	10	115 W	$1723.00 - $1727.00
Compare	Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2687W v2 (25M Cache, 3.40 GHz)	Launched	Q3'13	8	150 W	$2108.00 - $2112.00
Compare	Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2690 v2 (25M Cache, 3.00 GHz)	Launched	Q3'13	10	130 W	$2057.00 - $2061.00
Compare	Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2695 v2 (30M Cache, 2.40 GHz)	Launched	Q3'13	12	115 W	$2336.00 - $2340.00
Compare	Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2697 v2 (30M Cache, 2.70 GHz)	Launched	Q3'13	12	130 W	$2614.00 - $2618.00
Compare	Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2403 v2 (10M Cache, 1.80 GHz)	Launched	Q1'14	4	80 W	$192.00
Compare	Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2407 v2 (10M Cache, 2.40 GHz)	Launched	Q1'14	4	80 W	$250.00
Compare	Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2420 v2 (15M Cache, 2.20 GHz)	Launched	Q1'14	6	80 W	$406.00
Compare	Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2430 v2 (15M Cache, 2.50 GHz)	Launched	Q1'14	6	80 W	$551.00
Compare	Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2430L v2 (15M Cache, 2.40 GHz)	Launched	Q1'14	6	60 W	$612.00
Compare	Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2440 v2 (20M Cache, 1.90 GHz)	Launched	Q1'14	8	95 W	$832.00
Compare	Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2450 v2 (20M Cache, 2.50 GHz)	Launched	Q1'14	8	95 W	$1107.00
Compare	Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2450L v2 (25M Cache, 1.70 GHz)	Launched	Q1'14	10	60 W	$1219.00
Compare	Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2470 v2 (25M Cache, 2.40 GHz)	Launched	Q1'14	10	95 W	$1440.00
Compare	Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-1620 v2 (10M Cache, 3.70 GHz)	Launched	Q3'13	4	130 W	$294.00
Compare	Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-1650 v2 (12M Cache, 3.50 GHz)	Launched	Q3'13	6	130 W	$583.00
Compare	Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-1660 v2 (15M Cache, 3.70 GHz)	Launched	Q3'13	6

 

 

Sorry for the prices I just copied the page from intel.   You can purchase a lot of these on ebay for a good price so I'm not wanting to debate price or needing to upgrade the platform I will do such in few months.

[nmil]

If you want to get Linus himself to help then you have to tag him in, like so @LinusTech.

There you go tagged him in for you. 

[Aereldor]

@LinusTech is a busy man. Have a mod move this to the 'CPUs' subforum where it belongs and open yourself to the assistance of the dozens of experts on this forum.

[DemiSLayer]

Thanks folks. looking forward to having some assistance

[DemiSLayer]

I also wonder if say multiple 10 core cpus would benefit in APIs such as Vulkan.

[SLAYR]

1 hour ago, DemiSLayer said:

I also wonder if say multiple 10 core cpus would benefit in APIs such as Vulkan.

If you are looking for a cpu for these for really cheap the e5 2670 should be compatible with the c602 chipset in these it does appear that there are two versions of this workstation, but used on ebay an e5 2670 can go as low as $50USD.

[DemiSLayer]

Which CPU will perfume the best

[DemiSLayer]

Perform not perfume  lol

[NumLock21]

I'll like to spend no more that $600ish on a CPU, and out of this list, there are 14 of them. The highest core count I see withing my budget is a 6 cores, so I'll pick that and next up is the clock speed. Highest clock speed, I find withing this list is 3.5GHz. So I'll go with that, the Xeon E5 1650 v2. But that's a single cpu, I want a dual, so back to the list, I see highest clock is at 2.6GHz, which is the 2630 v3 and has a low TDP of just 80w.

[DemiSLayer]

Are there any benchmarks of any of the posted CPUs ?

[cleb]

As most people will tell you, most games don't utilize more than 4 cores. So go perhaps for whichever has has the strongest individual cores with at least for. That way you'll min have 8. Theoretically 4 for gamjng and 4 for say, broadcast, teamchats, ect

[vanished]

22 hours ago, Aereldor said:

@LinusTech is a busy man. Have a mod move this to the 'CPUs' subforum where it belongs and open yourself to the assistance of the dozens of experts on this forum.

 

23 hours ago, nmil said:

If you want to get Linus himself to help then you have to tag him in, like so @LinusTech.

There you go tagged him in for you. 

 

Actually last I heard he doesn't have notifications turned on so that will do nothing.  All you can hope is that he stumbles across your thread and finds it interesting   Apparently he actually reads the forums a fair bit but doesn't post much because he's usually on his phone.

[DemiSLayer]

Bump!

[SLAYR]

16 hours ago, DemiSLayer said:

Are there any benchmarks of any of the posted CPUs ?

Userbenchmark and cinebench will tell you how the cpus compare to each other.

[Sintezza]

Maybe you should ask wendell instead.

Oh wait this is LTT sorry!

 

 

[DemiSLayer]

I will not deviate from "The Linus" and soil our home with Wendell.   Lol jk

[DemiSLayer]

I'm currently running a HP XW8600  with 2 xeon x5492 processors  quad core 3.4ghz.   I get 19000 (gtx980ti) score in graphics in firestrike. physics is 10,000 and combined is horrific at 1800.   I'm hoping my other workstation the HP z820 can stomp this with the xeon e5 v2 processors. 

[DemiSLayer]

I'm liking the results on the 2690 v2 10 core cpu.    I'm also looking at running 3 gtx1080s and being able to stream 3 gaming stations off the workstation.