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System Name | Veral |
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Processor | 7800x3D |
Motherboard | x670e Asus Crosshair Hero |
Cooling | Corsair H150i RGB Elite |
Memory | 2x32 Corsair Dominator |
Video Card(s) | Powercolor 7900XTX Red Devil |
Storage | Crucial P5 Plus 1TB, Samsung 980 1TB, Teamgroup MP34 4TB |
Display(s) | Acer Nitro XZ342CK Pbmiiphx + 2x AOC 2425W |
Case | Fractal Design Meshify Lite 2 |
Audio Device(s) | Blue Yeti + SteelSeries Arctis 5 / Samsung HW-T550 |
Power Supply | Corsair HX850 |
Mouse | Corsair Nightsword |
Keyboard | Corsair K55 |
VR HMD | HP Reverb G2 |
Software | Windows 11 Professional |
Benchmark Scores | PEBCAK |
Depends on the use case. My 2680v2's will go to 3.1 all cores or 3.4 on a few. I won't do any intense gaming on them but for multi threaded or multitask stuff it's great. As others have said yeah the 2650v2 would work however look at the 2678wv2 (I think that's what it's called, or 2687wv2) for best of both worlds.Guys I'm after a penny for your thoughts....
One of my close friends is rather poorly, I'm trying to do something nice for him as he's locked in at home and can't go anywhere but to hospital so I'd like to try and donate him a PC that I can use my spare parts from and get him something a little special.. Something that's a little me in there for him... I mean by that, completely daft and stupid basically![]()
I'm having a bit of a dilemma with what CPU to put in the rig for him.. I've got a X79 board, so I'm aiming for at least USB 3, as he's never had anything above USB 2.. And I'm looking for a CPU that has a decent amount of cores, that pretty quick and will do pretty much anything he needs.. As he's no gamer I don't believe that full on clock speed would be required, so the low/mid 3.0GHz ish area, I think would be more than enough. It's a shame that I can't give him an X99 board, but I don't have the DDR4 spareSo I'm kinda looking around these sorts of CPUs...
Xeon E5-2650 v2 8C 16T 95w
Xeon E5 2658 V2 10C 20T 95w
Xeon E5-2660 v2 10C 20T 95w
My question to you, is which would you put in the rig?? I'll be using a Gigabyte X79 UD3 (I think!) board.. I'm looking at water cooling the CPU and a GPU which has a full block on it.. As I don't happen to have a spare high core count CPU, I'm looking to try and buy one as cheaply but quickly as possible... I also have to remember or find out, if normal DDR3 will work with the Xeon (I'm pretty sure it would??) as I've got some server DDR3, but I'm not sure if it would work with the board... It didn't with my MSI X99 Gaming Titanium sadly...
A penny for your thoughts guys![]()
EDIT: 2687w V2. 4ghz boost on 8c/16t. Just gotta keep it cool with the 150tdp.