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re: To upgrade, or not to upgrade...... my video cards....
Posted on 6/4/14 at 5:26 pm to ILikeLSUToo
Posted on 6/4/14 at 5:26 pm to ILikeLSUToo
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Are we looking at $4k per build x 5 machines total?
3-4k per and it might happen in stages depending on what the checking account looks like at the time
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I can put together some build ideas for you now, if you want. They would be X78 Ivy bridge-e platform, though.
I'm gonna lean on you for this because I'd like the best available but I don't want an architecture that limits me in 5 years because it was a stop-gap or something with short-lived attention (clearly I don't really know what the frick I'm talking about here). You're gonna have to tell me if that means I should wait or go ahead and pull the trigger on the X78 platform.
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Posted on 6/4/14 at 5:47 pm to junkfunky
I would definitely recommend waiting for Haswell-E, because it introduces a new socket, a new chipset, and a new memory standard. The X79/socket 2011 has been around a few years and is basically EOL, though the most recent CPUs for it were released late last year.
If there were an urgent need for a fast performing machine right now, though, I don't think there'd be any severe disadvantages to building maybe one of them with current hardware and waiting until the end of the year or early-mid 2015 to build the rest. The Ivy Bridge-E platform will still last you several years, but there just won't be an upgrade path with the CPU (not that Intel releases major improvements with their refreshes before changing sockets anyway).
If there were an urgent need for a fast performing machine right now, though, I don't think there'd be any severe disadvantages to building maybe one of them with current hardware and waiting until the end of the year or early-mid 2015 to build the rest. The Ivy Bridge-E platform will still last you several years, but there just won't be an upgrade path with the CPU (not that Intel releases major improvements with their refreshes before changing sockets anyway).
This post was edited on 6/4/14 at 5:48 pm
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