Hi I’m an architecture nutjob.
What are you transcoding and how much per file?
You might not want to go with EITHER amd or intel, but rather look into POWER. I can tell you, my PS3 farm will wreck your dual X99 build for years to come.
Look into the Raptor Talos 2 or the Blackbird. BBird should be cheaper, its like a $1000 mobo CPU combo starting at 4 cores, and PPC/Power beats the shit out of transcoding. You could even start with just a G5 and see what you could get.
I’ve been meaning to experiment with video editors like Olive that can run on PPC64 and AMD64 and use PPC chips over the network to render stuff, laptops even. Its gross.
Look into it. Word from the wise.
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