Water cooled dual xeons still relevant?

[northerntech]

I have built to may computers lately for other people and have made the decision that I need to build a sweet system for myself. I have the age old question (and it's getting older)... that is, old server gear or new consumer? I would be going with dual xenon X5690s (6 cores @ 3.46GHz base each) and supermicro MoBo with 7 x16 pcie 2.0 slots and 12 ddr3 dimslots (witch I would fill with 8gb sticks… of course). On the other hand your average 8th gen i7. Buy the time I purchase all the pcie adapters to gain modern i/o it will be around the same price. Regardless I plan on water cooling it with an extremely clean, custom case. Thanks for your input.

[Electronics Wizardy]

What ar eyou usig this for? the 8700k/2700x will be faster for almost all workloads.

[Crunchy Dragon]

New consumer parts all the way unless it's a real steal that can't be turned down, in my opinion.

 

The Haswell/Broadwell EP chips for example, very cheap on the used market, and basically identical to the consumer grade Haswell/Broadwell chips.

[Enderman]

Yeah unless you're only doing rendering 24/7 that can use all cores, it will just perform badly.

[northerntech]

Oh yeah, sorry forgot about that terribly important part… It will be used for cad, some video/photo editing and some gaming. thanks

[Electronics Wizardy]

5 minutes ago, northerntech said:

Oh yeah, sorry forgot about that terribly important part… It will be used for cad, some video/photo editing and some gaming. thanks

go 2700x or 8700k then. most of those won't use all the threads well, and numa adds some latency. The age of 1366 is starting to show with things like pcie bandwidth aswell.

 

[Razor Blade]

6 minutes ago, northerntech said:

Oh yeah, sorry forgot about that terribly important part… It will be used for cad, some video/photo editing and some gaming. thanks

As much as I like my socket B servers, I would suggest going with more modern hardware for those workloads.

[moderategamer]

7 minutes ago, northerntech said:

Oh yeah, sorry forgot about that terribly important part… It will be used for cad, some video/photo editing and some gaming. thanks

Will you be rendering in cad if so the more RAM you can get the better I know it's not in line with what other people are saying but 12 cores and lots of RAM make a pretty good combination when it comes to doing rendering.

[Guest]

if you need the moar coars then id say go for the xeons because its a fun build

they perform kinda like a 2700k with trash single threaded performance

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-Xeon-X5690-vs-Intel-i7-8700K-vs-Intel-i7-2700K/1314vs3098vs881

 

i cant tell you if they would be overall better for your workload or not