First - do you really think that anyone will notice much difference between 3.5GHz and 3.9GHz? Your hour-long single threaded task at 3.5 will be done about 6 minutes earlier at 3.9. If I'm planning my day, there's not much difference between 60 minutes and 54 minutes.
You mean the nearly three year old six core, right?
I meant the machine in post 3.You mean the nearly three year old six core, right?
The OP was about a twelve core for sale. There's no option for a six core in the context of the OP.
It's reasonable to argue that a new lower-core count system might be a better match - but to say "Unless you are using the machine as a render machine or part of a farm" over-simplifies the situation. There are other scenarios where high core count is good.
However, as I have said and others have said - the used twelve core at nearly new price isn't a bargain if you don't need the extra cores.
Sorry - I didn't have the whole thread in memory when I posted.
No worries.
No worries.
I understand you outlook on buying a PC based machine. I did something similar but went the roll my own route. I haven't found 6 cores a limitation but my work flow typically puts more demands on the graphics capabilities and the 6 core was the most cost effective cpu allowing for x16 PCIe on both graphics cards. I deal in more real time based editing then rendering and encoding.
I guess this is a good case in point of needing to pick the CPU for the job.
You could use the tax write off for the depreciation of the machine to purchase the CPU you need and then sell the older processor if you feel that you need the upgrade.
Personal machine at home - no write off
Personal machine at home - no write off
The T3610 was only sold with E5-1600 v2 processors - I'll look around to see if anyone has upgraded to E5-2600 v2.
Power/cooling shouldn't be an issue - the hex E5-1650v2 is TDP of 130 watt. Almost all of the E5-2600v2 CPUs are 130 watt or below.
If you have one you can bring home for the night that would answer your question.
The system makes no money - it's just a nice Xeon/ECC home PC.
What is the use case when you see all cores spiked? The only way I have been able to achieve that is encoding and rendering.
I often do multiple batch runs across large numbers of files - my guess is that the disks would support 20 or 30 threads before the tasks become disk-limited. Some video tasks are multi-threaded across a handful of cores, so I limit it to four or five concurrent jobs.
