system upgrade

[emosun]

Looking to upgrade multicore cpu performance and came up with this
 

438$ Xeon E5-2690 V2 , x2 

250$ Supermicro X9DRi-LN4F+ heatsinks

 

pros:

Should double the cpu performance of what i currently use

I can reuse my existing ram which isn't an issue

will allow ram to run at it's rated speed instead of 1066
will allow gpu to run at x16 instead of 8
will allow system drives to run on sata 3 instead of 2

cons:
still no usb 3 , i have a usb3 card but it would have been nice to eliminate it
no onboard SAS but i guess that wouldn't be very common anyway

 

I'm open to other options if they can exceed the multicore performance while being cheaper but I wasn't able to find anything like that in the consumer cpu market. cpu's like the i9 or threadripper cpu's seem to cost more and also require buying ram that i won't be needing.

[Fasauceome]

At first I was thinking that was a hefty price tag for a xeon that only supports ddr3, then I saw that it was 10 cores. Rock on, double the core count for half the price of the cheapest i9. You wouldn't be getting an improvement in multicore performance with that staggering of a difference, and it's nice to have ECC on your side. How many channels does that setup support?

[emosun]

3 minutes ago, fasauceome said:

then I saw that it was 10 cores.

well theres 2 so it would be 20 cores

[emosun]

Something else i noticed as a possible con is it would loose the ability to use triple channel ram.

[Fasauceome]

47 minutes ago, emosun said:

Something else i noticed as a possible con is it would loose the ability to use triple channel ram.

and cache size potentially