ashman70 Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 Just picked up a pair of six core CPU's for my 'monster unRAID server' which currently has two quad core Xeon's totalling 16 threads, now I'll be moving up to 24 threads with these new CPU's. Its a modest upgrade, but the price was right and I've found that the extra cores will come in handy with plex streams. Quote Link to comment
garycase Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 What Xeon models did you upgrade from and to ?? Quote Link to comment
ashman70 Posted March 11, 2017 Author Share Posted March 11, 2017 Currently have two E5620's and I will be upgrading to two E5645's virtually the same processor, just six cores instead of four. Quote Link to comment
garycase Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 Definitely a nice bump => from a PassMark of 4875 to 6559 ... a 35% increase in your "horsepower" Quote Link to comment
ashman70 Posted March 11, 2017 Author Share Posted March 11, 2017 Yeah and for $100 CAN shipped, not bad I think! Quote Link to comment
garycase Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 Very good price -- a 35% bump for $100 is certainly an excellent deal The pricing for these older E5 Xeons is amazing -- the same is true for the registered RAM modules. You can build dual Xeon systems with 64GB or more for just a few hundred $$ these days. Very tempting !! Quote Link to comment
ashman70 Posted March 28, 2017 Author Share Posted March 28, 2017 Just completed the upgrade today, everything went well, server is humming along with 8 more cores :-) Quote Link to comment
garycase Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 7 hours ago, ashman70 said: server is humming along with 8 more cores :-) ... just to be precise, it's humming along with FOUR more cores ... which support 8 more threads. Nevertheless, it's a very nice upgrade Quote Link to comment
1812 Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 7 hours ago, ashman70 said: Just completed the upgrade today, everything went well, server is humming along with 8 more cores :-) YOU GOT CORES FOR DAYS!!! Quote Link to comment
ashman70 Posted March 29, 2017 Author Share Posted March 29, 2017 (edited) Yeah no kidding, need them for plex, want to support at least three to four transcoding streams comfortably. Right now I have three cores dedicated to the docker for a total of six threads. Edited March 29, 2017 by ashman70 Quote Link to comment
Living Legend Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 What 1366 socket motherboard are you using with your E5645s? Quote Link to comment
ashman70 Posted April 5, 2017 Author Share Posted April 5, 2017 An Intel S5500HCV Quote Link to comment
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