Does this seem like a good CPU?

[JamieBritain101]

Just going through some old junk at a used server store and found this CPU available:

 

http://ark.intel.com/products/67024/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2448L-20M-1_8-GHz-8_0-GTs-Intel-QPI

 

 

I can't seem to find any reviews on it and I know it's a low clock speed server CPU but does it seem any good?

 

Thanks

[Electronics Wizardy]

Pretty bad, what are you using it for. The boards will be 200+ though.

 

A pentium will be much faster for desktop tasks.

[21rkosta]

whats the price?

[Megah3rtz]

Its too old to be especially useful 

[JamieBritain101]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

Pretty bad, what are you using it for. The boards will be 200+ though.

 

A pentium will be much faster for desktop tasks.

There's the option to buy it in a dual CPU configuration on a server ATX motherboard, even with the dual CPU configuration, would it still seem bad?

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, JamieBritain101 said:

There's the option to buy it in a dual CPU configuration on a server ATX motherboard, even with the dual CPU configuration, would it still seem bad?

what are you using it for?

 

A sinlge i7 will be faster in most uses cases and cheaper, and lower power.

[JamieBritain101]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

what are you using it for?

 

A sinlge i7 will be faster in most uses cases and cheaper, and lower power.

Was going to try to just build a "just for fun" workstation for daily usage / occasional video editing. I think though as you say a more recent i7 would be better.

 

Thanks

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, JamieBritain101 said:

Was going to try to just build a "just for fun" workstation for daily usage / occasional video editing. I think though as you say a more recent i7 would be better.

 

Thanks

yea a core i5 will smoke those chips in video editing. Id stay away from those.

[AvocadosGuac]

A dual CPU server, 16 cores 32 threads at 2.1gHz?

That will preform better at video rendering and media encoding than any non- extreme i7. The 6900k+ WILL beat it but if you can pickup the whole xeon system for like $1500(CAD) thats a no brainer.

 

[NTDaws]

Maybe for a NAS or Small Business it's fine, but not for a gaming pc.

[JamieBritain101]

18 minutes ago, Jrock said:

A dual CPU server, 16 cores 32 threads at 2.1gHz?

That will preform better at video rendering and media encoding than any non- extreme i7. The 6900k+ WILL beat it but if you can pickup the whole xeon system for like $1500(CAD) thats a no brainer.

 

Wait hang on, so if I can pick up both CPUs and the motherboard for $500 CAD, and fit it with a decent graphics card. Would you say I would have a decent machine?

 

Thanks

[Bananasplit_00]

if what you are using it for cant be easely divided up over 16 threads then this CPU is garbage and you would be better of with an I5 2500K

[hellochicken]

For something like a server it is great as long as you dont mind the power consumption but for anything like gaming or editing the low clock speed will really hurt its performance and you would be lucky if it beat a new i3, well that and the motherboards for it are expensive, rare, and as linus showed on his cheap 8 core video you might not be able to even add expansion cards

[AvocadosGuac]

7 hours ago, hellochicken said:

For something like a server it is great as long as you dont mind the power consumption but for anything like gaming or editing the low clock speed will really hurt its performance and you would be lucky if it beat a new i3, well that and the motherboards for it are expensive, rare, and as linus showed on his cheap 8 core video you might not be able to even add expansion cards

This exactly. Dont rely on it for gaming

 

[JamieBritain101]

4 hours ago, Jrock said:

This exactly. Dont rely on it for gaming

 

So it wouldn't be like any good for Premiere Pro would it?

[AvocadosGuac]

5 hours ago, JamieBritain101 said:

So it wouldn't be like any good for Premiere Pro would it?

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1901069

 

Heres a good forum explaining clock speed vs cores for premier.

 

Personally i would jump on those CPU's and mobo. If you are editing at 4k, you probably want a decent SSD to work with aswell.