Beast Used Budget build.

[PartyWire]

Hej, so recently i have thought of upgrading my rig, i was thinking of building it a dual Xeon build, since i just got 2 Xeon X5670 CPUs. And i was thinking of buying a hd 7990 GC but I'm not sure about that. The case i have would actually fit a dual CPU mobo in it, i know it because i actually took the case that was a dual CPU server case. I know there is one guy out there who has a dual Xeon build. So if you're reading it, give me some advice on what to jam into the build. The rig will be used for some AAA gaming, some work stuff like rendering, and maybe if I'm out, some crypto coin mining.

[Luxanna]

Hd7990 is a really bad choice. It costs more than a 970 but consumes more power, has less vram and it doesnt even perform better than it (especially if you consider oc and stutering). I believe it could be a medicore choice for  crypto currency mining however there are more efficient cards out there. IMO you should go for used r9 390. Its the best performing card in your budget and probably the best card for your cpus. Anything faster than it will probably be bottlenecked by your single core performance. 

[PartyWire]

2 minutes ago, Luxanna said:

Hd7990 is a really bad choice. It costs more than a 970 but consumes more power, has less vram and it doesnt even perform better than it (especially if you consider oc and stutering). I believe it could be a medicore choice for  crypto currency mining however there are more efficient cards out there. IMO you should go for used r9 390. Its the best performing card in your budget and probably the best card for your cpus. Anything faster than it will probably be bottlenecked by your single core performance. 

What about a hd 7970? That's about a R9 280X.

[Luxanna]

Yeah HD7970 and r9 280x are the same card (r9 280 is the 7950) and they are much better of a deal. You will have to be careful when purchasing it tho, because HD7xxx and r9 2xx series were super popular among bitcoin miners back in the day. Also if you want to step down your budget you can consider the 1050 ti. It's gaming performance is even so slightly better than the 7970 and its rebrands while consuming less power, beeing new and having more vram. I believe it would be a worse performer in rendering, and it's performance in mining might be lower, however perfomance/w should be much better. 

[PartyWire]

4 minutes ago, Luxanna said:

Yeah HD7970 and r9 280x are the same card (r9 280 is the 7950) and they are much better of a deal. You will have to be careful when purchasing it tho, because HD7xxx and r9 2xx series were super popular among bitcoin miners back in the day. Also if you want to step down your budget you can consider the 1050 ti. It's gaming performance is even so slightly better than the 7970 and its rebrands while consuming less power and beeing new and having more vram. I believe it would be a worse performer in rendering, and it's performance in mining might be lower, however perfomance/w should be much better. 

Alright, I'll see what i can get my hands on with the best price.

[PartyWire]

5 minutes ago, CUDA_Cores said:

@suchamoneypit and @WhisperingKnickers both are currently running dual Xeon servers. I myself have run a dual LGA 771 Xeon server in the past but have since retired it and sold off all the parts. 

 

One weird thing you will notice with dual CPU systems is they do not scale perfectly with more CPUs, kind of like SLI. a quad-core LGA 1366 single socket xeon will outperform a two dual core xeons in a dual socket configuration at identical clockspeeds and architecture any day. This is something I noticed with my dual CPU server and it's something you are going to want to look out for. I believe the reason behind this is because all data must be shuffled through a QPI link as opposed to each CPU core simply talking to the one right next to it on the same die. 

Yeah i know, but i want to squeeze as much performance into one system as i possibly can without building a quad CPU rig, tho that would be awesome.

[NoxiousOdor]

What mobo are you thinking of using?

 

[PartyWire]

12 minutes ago, WhisperingKnickers said:

What mobo are you thinking of using?

 

I was at first thinking of using this, and i am still considering it, but the thing that hurts is the Shipping price. http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-591182-001-Z800-LGA-1366-Socket-B-DDR3-SDRAM-Motherboard-/382223304473?epid=1300506461&hash=item58fe48c719:g:fsMAAOSwoAxZtFIw

[PartyWire]

1 minute ago, PartyWire said:

I was at first thinking of using this, and i am still considering it, but the thing that hurts is the Shipping price. http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-591182-001-Z800-LGA-1366-Socket-B-DDR3-SDRAM-Motherboard-/382223304473?epid=1300506461&hash=item58fe48c719:g:fsMAAOSwoAxZtFIw

Was considering it because then i could fit another card in there for a tad bit more rendering power.

[NoxiousOdor]

1 hour ago, PartyWire said:

Was considering it because then i could fit another card in there for a tad bit more rendering power.

If you you need more than one gpu I would recommend the link below, the HP one you have there looks okay but I dont think it has standard mounting points like this one does which would mean that you would need to mod a case

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/372077037122?chn=ps&dispItem=1