Dual E5-1607

[Lord Athetos]

I just got a free E5-1607 pair. I can also get for very cheap a supermicro board. How would performance compare to a modern chip? Also, i probabbly will be pairing the xeons with an old gtx 690 that i have laying arround. Do you think the cpus can bottleneck the gpu or vice versa?

[DildorTheDecent]

15 minutes ago, Lord Athetos said:

I just got a free E5-1607 pair. I can also get for very cheap a supermicro board. How would performance compare to a modern chip? Also, i probabbly will be pairing the xeons with an old gtx 690 that i have laying arround. Do you think the cpus can bottleneck the gpu or vice versa?

Would be damn great if those CPUs supported dual socket operation (they don't). So you're limited to single socket boards I think.

 

Performance probably wouldn't be too bad if whatever programs were actually written to utilise two physical CPUs.

[faziten]

Sadly @DildorTheDecent is right.

At least they were free.

[Lord Athetos]

13 hours ago, DildorTheDecent said:

Would be damn great if those CPUs supported dual socket operation (they don't). So you're limited to single socket boards I think.

 

Performance probably wouldn't be too bad if whatever programs were actually written to utilise two physical CPUs.

So how will perform only one? I aldo got one 2640, would it be worth spending 40$ on anothe 2640 and pair it on the dual socket board?

[DildorTheDecent]

40 minutes ago, Lord Athetos said:

So how will perform only one? I aldo got one 2640, would it be worth spending 40$ on anothe 2640 and pair it on the dual socket board?

Looking at Cinebench scores (various 11.5 and 15 ones) a Core i5 2500 at stock is faster than 1607. But then again a 2500 is clocked faster. 

 

Dual 2640 gives you 12C/24T and it isn't exactly a slouch. Faster than a 5500MHZ+ 3960X although Dual 2640 does have twice the cores after all. 

 

A 6800K at 4500MHz or so is slightly slower than a Dual 2640s. Clocking a 6800K to 4500MHz isn't exactly easy (cos Broadwell-E sucks) and RAM speed could help it go even faster. 

 

In the end you'll be faster than most Haswell PCs. For $40 + board it would be a fun experiment. Just don't expect everything to work. Consumer programs rarely take advantage of multiple physical CPUs.