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"JGrabowMSt" (jgrabowmst) 06/20/2016 at 23:41 • Filed to: Computerlopnik

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These CPUs throttle down way more effectively than the previous two did. Certainly runs warmer, no doubt about that. RAM upgrade next, GPU after that.

What does your CPU chart look like?

e36Jeff now drives a ZHP > JGrabowMSt 06/20/2016 at 23:49

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What are you running that has 40 cores?

TheHondaBro > e36Jeff now drives a ZHP 06/20/2016 at 23:56

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A 0.0005 GHz processor.

FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com > e36Jeff now drives a ZHP 06/20/2016 at 23:59

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Probably a dual 10-core Xeon setup with hyperthreading. Like 2x E5-2650's. We have one at work like that

tromoly > JGrabowMSt 06/21/2016 at 00:00

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Dual Xeon E5-2650 v3 processors, I presume?

How much RAM are you wanting to upgrade to? Look up Natex.us, you can get lots of server-level RAM for pretty cheap.

Panther Brown Tdi Volvo Shooting Brake Manual Miata RWD Wagon Stole HondaBro's Accord. > JGrabowMSt 06/21/2016 at 00:00

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What server is that on?

JGrabowMSt > tromoly 06/21/2016 at 00:06

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2670v2 sample CPUs I found.

I’m doing a two part RAM upgrade. I’m lucky enough to work in the industry, so I have access to a lot of stuff for very cheap, sometimes nothing. I’ve currently got 8x 4gb because this machine was built when I was a “broke” college student. Now that I’m no longer broke or in college, I’m going to upgrade to 4x 16gb, and then an additional 4x 16gb if I notice any lag with 4k video editing (what the machine is for).

Just going from E5-2620 to these was immediately noticeable. I’ll be upgrading to probably a GTX 1070 (GTX660Ti currently) for faster Mercury Engine rendering when the launch edition crap all calms down.

JGrabowMSt > Panther Brown Tdi Volvo Shooting Brake Manual Miata RWD Wagon Stole HondaBro's Accord. 06/21/2016 at 00:09

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This is my video editing workstation. Some of the servers I support make this look like nothing. Just last week I had to swap a CPU in a quad socket server. Thing had 4 8-core Xeons with 256gb of RAM. Some of the newer servers have dual twelve cores putting me to shame. This machine is a few years old now, but does quite well for me, I’ve been planning this upgrade for some time.

JGrabowMSt > e36Jeff now drives a ZHP 06/21/2016 at 00:12

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4k video editing. I also don’t like waiting all night for things to render, and I don’t like leaving my machine on all night. This seems to have solved most of my problems. When rendering, CPUs boost all the way to 3.1ghz, but typically hover around 2.7ghz. RAM is my bottleneck. The GPU is fine for now, but larger title sequences or animations don’t play very smoothly, I’ll be moving to a GTX1070 when prices drop a little.

FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com > JGrabowMSt 06/21/2016 at 00:18

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The latest two or three generations of Xeons throttle amazingly well. I’ve been really happy with them - we are finally retiring all of our Opterons in favor of them.

If you really want to go nuts on upgrades, check out a Cubix Xpander - we have one workstation using one with 4x AMD FirePro W8000's and it is an absolute monster for GPU-enabled workloads.

My work CPU is, uh, a little busy right now...

(Dual 16-core Opteron 6380's w/o hyperthreading. Getting a new Xeon setup in the next week or two - I’m pretty excited.)

e36Jeff now drives a ZHP > JGrabowMSt 06/21/2016 at 00:38

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Ok, makes sense. I was wondering what the usage scenario was for that.

Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch > JGrabowMSt 06/21/2016 at 00:52

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Only 8 cores, but @ 4.2 Ghz.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > JGrabowMSt 06/21/2016 at 00:53

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That’s pretty impressive for a desktop/workstation. My current servers at the office have a mere 32 logical processors a piece, although they were built over three years ago. I’ve felt the pinch, but the total lack of an IT budget has meant I had to cope until I simply can’t do something they ask for, which is how I landed a new slave DB & VM server (48 logical cores, 256GB RAM, and just over 8TB worth of SSDs. The only semi-impressive thing is that this is all squeezed into 1U, while my old servers were all 2U for the same level of hardware redundancy...).

tromoly > JGrabowMSt 06/21/2016 at 01:53

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Nice.

KatzManDu > JGrabowMSt 06/21/2016 at 05:29

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I thought most rendering processes were single-threaded? Are you rendering multiple segments at the same time? Sorry my lack of modern knowledge is showing.

BmanUltima's car still hasn't been fixed yet, he'll get on it tomorrow, honest. > JGrabowMSt 06/21/2016 at 08:18

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No picture, but I’ve got 4 cores at 4.6 GHz. Good enough for gaming.

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > JGrabowMSt 06/21/2016 at 09:10

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I freaking love enterprise environment stuff. Just built a finance software hyper-convergence server (internal and external facing with dual software based walled garden firewall attributes) with 1TB of memory.

JGrabowMSt > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 06/21/2016 at 09:28

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This machine is neatly packed into an ATX tower under my desk, no bigger than a run of the mill Dell or HP consumer tower. You also cant even hear it when the central air is on, because I was not going to put up with heaps of noise whenever Im trying to edit video. Its not a remote render machine, its my personal machine.

JGrabowMSt > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet 06/21/2016 at 11:39

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1TB of memory...I think our highest capacity server in the DC has 768...

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > JGrabowMSt 06/21/2016 at 12:01

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Awww yisss!

Finance stuff for government agencies and clients is intense, plus you know sometimes you get deals. Hopefully I never have to do any reorg on that host.