upgrade i7 slaves or new xeon?

[peterguthrie]

I have 2x old(ish) i7 980x based machines that i've given up on as they have never been reliable. Considering either buying a new motherboard,cpu,ram bundle for each of them and giving them another chance, or just binning/selling them and getting another xeon machine.

Any opinions? scan.co.uk do a 5960x bundle that works out at £1672 with 32gb ram.

I'm just a bit concerned about reliability as the old ones used to give me '3dsmax stopped working' crashes several times a week.

Thinking about trying it on one of them and seeing how it goes.. OR does anyone in London want to buy them off me?

[peterguthrie]

Ignore this. I'm selling them.

[Donald2B]

Selling them is the only option IMHO. Once you get to a point where stability becomes an issue, it's just not worth the effort other than doing a fresh install of windows. Beyond that, I typically just move on. Good choice!

[peterguthrie]

yep, dont have time for stability issues!

[jacksc02]

Peter, I just built 5x i7 6 core render nodes and they are very reliable and very fast!
At the same time you can squeeze all of that render power in to 1 dual xeon machine then do it.