I just saw this video and it EXACTLY deals with my current dilemma.
My dilemma is to either buy two x5680's for my current 1366 motherboard which will be 255$. Or.... change to socket 2011 and go with two e5 series cpu's , but will obviously cost much more , around 500$ ish for a board and cpu's.
Is the performance of the machine going to be high enough to justify moving over to that platform over the two x5680's?
(I have zero issues with motherboard form factors , I can build any case I need)
That is purely subjective. If you can't answer that, how could anyone else?
It's not really a subjective question. It's a question someone who uses a newer platform could answer.
The E5-2670 is a generation newer, has greater single threaded performance at the same clock-speed and two of them would yield 4 extra physical cores over the X5680's. They should also use slightly less power.
On the flip side two X5680's could be over-clocked; but only on the right motherboard. If you were able to get them to over 4.2GHz (big if) you'd probably not be far short of the performance of the E5-2670's in terms of single thread and multiple threads - but there is no way you would beat them overall without getting the X5680's well past 4.5GHz (which I'd imagine is almost impossible).
Now the justification really depends on what you want to do with it. If you are purely a gamer with the occasional dabble into creative areas even a single X5680 with a decent GPU would be plenty. If you are rendering video 24/7 then the extra power of the dual E5-2670's would probably be worth it.
So what are you running right now, and what do you want to do with your machine?
yep pretty much thats what I'm doing.
In that case, get a 5820k and call it a day. Adobe products are poorly optimized past 8 cores.
Uh yeah no , most people don't know if you run multiple instances of programs you can get around cpu limitations.
a dual xeon machine can render and do something else while rendering , So I can run premiere and render while running after effects and render. So even if there was an 8 core limit (which I know from actual use isn't really true) I could use more cpu's over less.
Fair enough. I was just making a recommendation.
If you can make use of the absurd amount of power that dual 2670s gives you, more power to ya. I build mine with a Z9PE-D8 WS and dual 2670s, and it cost me just over $600. Your mileage may vary. It really depends on what features you need the board to have.