Should I go with $600 system with dual E5-2650 ?

pongup · December 15, 2016, 06:50

I was offered a used system with Dual E5-2650 + S2600CP4 + 16x4GB DDR3 for $600. Is this a good offer ? I plan to use this system for my viscoelastic flow school project. Or should I go with the brand-new, $1000 single i7-6800K/32GBDDR4 system?

flotus1 · December 15, 2016, 12:11

That seems like a fairly good deal. However, there might be better offers. The CPUs should be ~50$ each, 8*8GB DDR3-1600 reg ECC can be found for about 160$ and you can get new motherboards for less than 300$. Motherboards are one of the components you should consider buying new because they actually fail sometimes.
If it is a suitable option for you depends on the software you use.
If you have enough licenses for 16 cores (or no license issues) and your simulations scale well on a large number of cores this is about the best bang for the buck right now.
Otherwise you might be better off with the I7 which offers a much higher performance per core.

December 15, 2016, 06:50	Should I go with $600 system with dual E5-2650 ?	#1
pongup New Member pong Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 5 Rep Power: 17	I was offered a used system with Dual E5-2650 + S2600CP4 + 16x4GB DDR3 for $600. Is this a good offer ? I plan to use this system for my viscoelastic flow school project. Or should I go with the brand-new, $1000 single i7-6800K/32GBDDR4 system?

December 15, 2016, 12:11		#2
flotus1 Super Moderator Alex Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Germany Posts: 3,399 Rep Power: 46	That seems like a fairly good deal. However, there might be better offers. The CPUs should be ~50$ each, 88GB DDR3-1600 reg ECC can be found for about 160$ and you can get new motherboards for less than 300$. Motherboards are one of the components you should consider buying new because they actually fail sometimes. If it is a suitable option for you depends on the software you use. If you have enough licenses for 16 cores (or no license issues) and your simulations scale well on a large number of cores this is about the best bang for the buck right now. Otherwise you might be better off with the I7 which offers a much higher performance per core. pongup and HyperNova like this. Last edited by flotus1; December 16, 2016 at 04:25.*

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