Hi guys, I’ve put some short commentary on the build I did, and some general building advice. It’s not all encompassing but could be useful. If some questions pop-up too often, I will revise particular sections that might concern it.
EDIT:
Revision 1.1 : I formated Motherboard and CPU Coolers sections to go right after each other as they have close dependability. I added further motherboard options with links and divided coolers based on motherboard layout. I don’t have much energy to research all cheap options for cooling since I always use Noctua… but if I find the time (or would like to suggest yours) I will add them with links.
I did not link to direct sellers because the choice depend on your residency :- ). I wanted them right away, so I found a european seller than auctions them (http://www.ebay.de/usr/pc-sistem?_trksid=p2047675.l2559 but you can go for the Chinese(Hong-Kong) sellers as well. They will specify minimum postage and avoid customs.
I’ve grabbed the z620 from this seller for a faster jump to dual xeon setup. Not much testing so far just installed windows an ran the benchmark, with the 1:37 render time vs my old 4770k build’s ~4:30 i think this will become my primary workstation, just need to swap the hdd’s and graphics card and ad some more ram.
I also researched and compared the different prices on ebay or amazon, for the moment I can get it for € 1,300 .. It is not exactly the same price that was mentionned
I don’t desperate
But thanks for all your work Juraj !
I ordered my cpus from a hong kong seller. I had to wait a week for them to arrive, but they were well packaged and works like a charm. If you find a seller with good reputation, there shouldn’t be any problems.
I bought a Fractal Design XL R2 case and put in two “Arctic Cooling F12 PWM CO 120mm” fans (since the fans that came with the case was 3-pin and couldn’t be controlled by the MB, which uses 4-pin connectors) and used two Cooler Master Evo 212 for the cpus. The computer is almost completely silent even at full load.
I bought two xeon 2670 (around 120usd with shipping). The motherboard is a Asus Z9PE-D8 WS, which is expensive, but I managed to find a pretty good price here in Sweden. I couldn’t find any of the server motherboards, that would have cut the price on both the MB and the case a lot. The whole build went a bit over 900 euro, around 950 euro.
Sorry, I’m absolutely incapable of reading figures about clock speeds or any of the stuff where math gets involved. I read the article, many thanks Juraj it’s much appreciated like all your contribution across the board! but this technical stuff leaves me puzzled and I’d really like to get deeper into this as the basic idea sounds cool and with the prices mentioned I could imagine myself building a new rig this coming winter.
Using this guide, could I build an efficient workstation by todays standards? I now have a i7-4930K with 32 GB of ram, using Windows 10. Most of all I’m looking to upgrade because I want at least 64 GB or optimally 128 GB of RAM, assuming Corona, Forest Pack et al can utilize it because I hate the way I need to optimize my models every time I render a larger aerial scene with a lot of dense scattered Forest objects. Could this guide be used as a base for something like this and if I also wanted to gain some rendering speed compared to my current i7, how wide would my options be regarding the Xeons? For instance I’m browsing the Amazon link and seeing prices ranging like this:
Now I didn’t look through benchmarks and am not up to date so that lower one could be a pretty new model for all I know, but assuming these are pretty much on par regarding efficiency/pricing and that second one if just so much more power and the price justified, is it just up to me to choose what ever model my wallet can afford or would I be running into problems here? Maybe it would be better to start a thread once I’m settled with what I think would be a good rig but for now I’d just appreciate it if someone with more smarts and up to date info could confirm / debunk a work/gaming station built using Jurajs excellent guide as a base.
One more thing, that gaming aspect I briefly mentioned.. could this also serve as a gaming rig if I jammed my current GeForce 980ti in it? I don’t game much but still enough so that I have for example the Witcher 3 which is a notable resource hag -would the different processor architecture take away FPS, maybe?
If you guys could answer and correct my very limited understanding here, I’d appreciate it a ton!
No there is none. Theoretically, ECC, esp. buffered, should be slightly tiny bit slower ( <1perc. ) but I didn’t find any noticeable difference at all.
Actually, I later switched from Non-ECC 1333 CL 9, to ECC 1600 CL 10, with the same score everywhere down to a statistic difference ( 2000 vs 2001 Cinebench score).
( I switched because I had super cheap option of getting 64 GB kits for less then 80 euros )
I now use only ECC, because the LGA 2011-3 ( for v4 xeons ) series no longer work in dual-cpu configuration without it. For whatever the reasons behind is.
