Expensive Modest Upgrade
Performance boost for $430.00 ( 18 core 2.30 GHZ )? Not really noticeable. It should render 3 times faster than my Intel ( 6 core ) i7 4 GHz chip, but I really do not see it. Single core should go to turbo--which would make it just a tad slower than the i7, but it never gets to 3.6, only about 3! It is rendering faster, but not what I expected. Single core performance is noticeably slower, but livable.
The reason to go to xeon? Did not have to change out any of the original components to get a speed boost. If I upgrade to AMD, I have to change out motherboard, maybe power supply, maybe memory. The price different would be double or triple what I paid---but it would be at least twice as fast as the xeon!
I have managed to get the xeon to render at 2.65 GHZ, that's for all 36 CPU's, so I know it is over twice as fast, its just not all that obvious at the level I am working at.
My system is water cooled and it took me 10 minutes to change out the chips. It took a little longer to tweak out the motherboards OS.
Just have to save up for a faster and more advanced CPU.
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