March 10, 20179 yr Just picked up a pair of six core CPU's for my 'monster unRAID server' which currently has two quad core Xeon's totalling 16 threads, now I'll be moving up to 24 threads with these new CPU's. Its a modest upgrade, but the price was right and I've found that the extra cores will come in handy with plex streams.
March 11, 20179 yr Author Currently have two E5620's and I will be upgrading to two E5645's virtually the same processor, just six cores instead of four.
March 11, 20179 yr Definitely a nice bump => from a PassMark of 4875 to 6559 ... a 35% increase in your "horsepower"
March 11, 20179 yr Very good price -- a 35% bump for $100 is certainly an excellent deal The pricing for these older E5 Xeons is amazing -- the same is true for the registered RAM modules. You can build dual Xeon systems with 64GB or more for just a few hundred $$ these days. Very tempting !!
March 28, 20179 yr Author Just completed the upgrade today, everything went well, server is humming along with 8 more cores :-)
March 28, 20179 yr 7 hours ago, ashman70 said: server is humming along with 8 more cores :-) ... just to be precise, it's humming along with FOUR more cores ... which support 8 more threads. Nevertheless, it's a very nice upgrade
March 29, 20179 yr 7 hours ago, ashman70 said: Just completed the upgrade today, everything went well, server is humming along with 8 more cores :-) YOU GOT CORES FOR DAYS!!!
March 29, 20179 yr Author Yeah no kidding, need them for plex, want to support at least three to four transcoding streams comfortably. Right now I have three cores dedicated to the docker for a total of six threads. Edited March 29, 20179 yr by ashman70
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