April 22, 20188 yr I think I know the answer to my question but here goes...I am trying to work out the best bang for buck in upgrading my unRAID server for VMs. I currently have a 14 core E5-2695 v3 Xeon with a 2.3GHz base clock. I could sell that and replace with an E5-2687W v4 12 core but a base clock of 3.0GHz, prob cost about 250-300 overall as an upgrade. I think the v4s are pretty power efficient so wouldn’t expect it to use much more idling than my v3. Alternatively I could upgrade my GTX950 with an ATI RX580 (4GB or 8GB unsure whether worth going for for maybe 150-200 after selling the old card. Most of the time the CPU sits idle as it is acting as a server but then I also play games on it or use a Mac desktop as well both of which would benefit from an upgrade.(I think the 580 is pretty well supported on Mac) I am after some better game performance as well as desktop performance but I suspect the CPU gains are probably marginal compared to the over 2x increase if I went GPU upgrade... Any advice? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
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