HELP! Choosing a PROCESSOR

[MultiMigo]

Hey guys, need help here. My current system is an i7 3610QM laptop. Im mostly a video editor and did a test which proved that the GPU doesnt help that much in rendering. 

 

Im going to build a desktop. My choices are an i7 2600 and a Xeon E5 2620/2640 which can be bought for under $80. Will these processors give me a better performance than my i7 3610QM? Im going for these because im on a super duper tight budget. The xeon is a 6 core but has a low clock speed. Soooo. Help me choose! Thanks!

 

PS: Just help me decide which processor is the best or should I just stick with my laptop. I will also be editing with an SSD so it wont be a bottleneck.

[El Dolor]

Can you rather get a i7 3770? You don't have to buy a new CPU by all means..

[mwk6411]

my testing showed quite diffrent IF you pick the quick video intel encoder (i use handbrake) so be carefull the new intel x cores have pulled the gpu hw accelleration from what i can see like i7 7820 more cores but you need them because you cant engage a hw encoder 

[SupaKomputa]

i7 2600 got 8 thread and very high clock speed. 2620 got 12 threads but very low (2ghz) clock speed.

 

Those low clock speed is good for server with multiple connections at the same time but need low processing power like serving videos or files. But for rendering i think the i7 will perform better.

 

Total cost of ownership is cheaper with i7 system as 1155 motherboard is cheap (used).

But the downside for e5 system is you have to buy the still expensive x79 mb ($200). On the upside you can use ECC memory that is now cheap as hell (waste overstocks from server upgrade). The other upside you can use E5 2670 that have 16 threads and 2.6 ghz (i think).

 

I you have super duper low budget i suggest get the i7 2600 or E3-1230 (xeon version of the same chip but cheaper).

 

2 hours ago, MultiMigo said:

Will these processors give me a better performance than my i7 3610QM?

Lets look at the numbers :

i7 3610QM : 2.3ghz, 8 threads

i7 2600 / e3-1230 : 3.4ghz, 8 threads

2620: 2ghz, 12 threads

 

Its clear that the i7 2600 with huge advantage in ghz. Almost +1 ghz, and its a desktop cpu with higher power priority. So the answer is yes.

 

And to put it far better performance than laptop is the discrete GPU.

Desktop GPU will smash anything from same laptop version.