so i was on ebay searching for client terminals and i found a quad hexa-core old server ( IBM x3850 M2 )
I got excited because i saw 64GB ram and quad six-core 2.66ghz Xeon X7460 processors and pulled the trigger.
I have been waiting on x99 chipset to release to buy a new computer. I'm expected to pay around $330 for the quad hexa-core server.
NO hard drives, i have a raid controller that i can install... more on that later... Just want to hear your guy's input if this is a stupid idea I want to build a dedicated premiere pro editing machine. Not even sure if premiere supports quad processors... Thanks.
Guess it depends on what you are gonna use it for. It will not work as a workstation. Would probably be ok as a server, if you can pay the power bill. The power vs performance ratio will be low compared to modern stuff.
The CPUs are a bit old, but stuff that can use all the cores should probably be alright. Single thread though, quite slow compared to the stuff we have today. The CPUs have a load of cache, 25 MB per CPU. 100 MB cache in total, great for server-loads. They don't have any modern instructions sets like AVX, but should have SSE.
Thanks guys for your responses, guess we will have to wait and see... Should be interesting build. My budget for this will be $1000, plan on buying a 780gtx, two raid arrays, one planned to do 2gb/s read and write, the other for OS and Adobe Premiere. I really plan on just turning this machine ON when I am ready to edit video, since IT IS A POWER HOG each CPU is 135 watts TDP!
And Finally, if things go sour I will ditch the server, sell the ram/processors on ebay.. and carry over the raid/gtx to a x99 build.