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First post, by xjas

Posted on 2018-10-06, 23:56

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As the title says. Looking for some advice on a modern-ish setup for video capture & editing, and maybe Blender stuff. My Athlon64 X2 system isn't going to cut it.

Is there a depreciation sweet spot for anything right now? AMD FX-series maybe? I'm not concerned about gaming performance at all, just want something that can chew through a ton of threads without grinding to a halt. Preferably using DDR2 or 3 and not being a space heater either. (I'm not averse to underclocking & downvolting, as long as it's "good enough.")

I do have a pretty sweet Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe (AM2) I could presumably drop a Phenom II onto, but not married to that idea.

Open to 'out there' solutions too, like dual 771 Xeons or something. Has to be cheap though.

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Reply 1 of 6, by xjas

Posted on 2018-10-07, 00:20

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On that note, how terrible an idea is this? $57 with free shipping and I already have one compatible Xeon if I take it out of my 775 machine. Am I going to be into an expensive rabbit hole of PSU & CPU coolers just to get this thing going?

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Reply 2 of 6, by darry

Posted on 2018-10-07, 01:03

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Socket 1366 on x58 seems like an option for cheap and fast 6 cores in a single socket .

Reply 3 of 6, by awgamer

Posted on 2018-10-07, 02:35

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Problem is they suck power, high idle watt usage too. It may drop depending on the motherboard used?

Reply 4 of 6, by ODwilly

Posted on 2018-10-07, 03:07

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darry wrote:
Socket 1366 on x58 seems like an option for cheap and fast 6 cores in a single socket .

+1 to this. A pair of x5650's or better on a decent dual socket board would shred for cheap. Heck, Sandbridge based servers are even cheap now.

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Reply 5 of 6, by nforce4max

Posted on 2018-10-07, 03:50

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Some x79 Xeons are unlocked though rare one can overclock up to 5.8ghz with an 8 core E1xxx no less but almost all of them to be found online are the much more common E2xxx models.

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Reply 6 of 6, by oeuvre

Posted on 2018-10-07, 13:41

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HP Z600 or Z800 workstations are pretty cheap. If you only need one processor, look at the Z400/ThinkStation S20.

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