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CPU Conundrum

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I'm on the verge of buying a Xeon 26xx processor for a server that I am building.

This would mostly be used for running some VMs (FreeNAS, home automation), software development, data analysis and such (thus, it helps me to have more cores to split the workload over, rather have having fewer faster cores, IMHO).

 

My preference is the E5 2670, but I'm finding it hard to get that here in India (at a reasonable price).

So, I'm contemplating the E5 2660 or E5 2650.

 

I've looked at CPUboss and some performance comparison sites (by the numbers), but I'm also hoping to get insights from people who have used these CPUs.

  • Is there a big difference in performance of these latter 2 CPUs?
  • Would there be a big difference between the v1 and v2 versions?
  • And would I get any significant power saving if I used these instead of the 2670?
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