Hi Guys,
I am planning to build a new home workstation rig for my software development /gaming/VR purpose. I am considering building a new machine with Ryzen 7 2700x or i7-8700K with somewhat reasonable graphics card from gtx 1060 to gtx 1080ti (have not decided yet).
However, few days ago, I saw some refurbished Dell Precision T5600 with Dual E5-2560 v2 (2.0 ghz) in sale for 700 AUD. That made me thinking if I can buy one of these and upgrade it with SSD and graphics card and get similar performance for my day to day work.
I am a software developer, mainly work in computer graphics application, VR and have some interest in machine learning and deep learning. occasionally will play games. But while developing VR apps, it is crucial that I get good frame rate out of my machine.
I was trying to compare performance of these Xeon cpu with two other candidates (Ryzen 7 2700x and i7-8700K). According to CPU benchmark site CPU mark for these cpus are as follows:
Xeon E5-2650: 10149
Ryzen 7 2700X: 16965
i7-8700K: 15966
But the Dell T5600 I am looking at has two E5-2650, which may not double my cpu performance but I think it could get close to single ryzen 7 2700X ot i7-8700K performance. Also, Dell comes with 32 GB ECC DD3 memory and being a pro verson component, it should be super stable. So considering the price + upgrade cost, to me it seemed positive. However, I am still confused and wanted to what the community think about it.
Any suggestion, comment on it?
Here is the comparison from CPUbenchmark.net
I am planning to build a new home workstation rig for my software development /gaming/VR purpose. I am considering building a new machine with Ryzen 7 2700x or i7-8700K with somewhat reasonable graphics card from gtx 1060 to gtx 1080ti (have not decided yet).
However, few days ago, I saw some refurbished Dell Precision T5600 with Dual E5-2560 v2 (2.0 ghz) in sale for 700 AUD. That made me thinking if I can buy one of these and upgrade it with SSD and graphics card and get similar performance for my day to day work.
I am a software developer, mainly work in computer graphics application, VR and have some interest in machine learning and deep learning. occasionally will play games. But while developing VR apps, it is crucial that I get good frame rate out of my machine.
I was trying to compare performance of these Xeon cpu with two other candidates (Ryzen 7 2700x and i7-8700K). According to CPU benchmark site CPU mark for these cpus are as follows:
Xeon E5-2650: 10149
Ryzen 7 2700X: 16965
i7-8700K: 15966
But the Dell T5600 I am looking at has two E5-2650, which may not double my cpu performance but I think it could get close to single ryzen 7 2700X ot i7-8700K performance. Also, Dell comes with 32 GB ECC DD3 memory and being a pro verson component, it should be super stable. So considering the price + upgrade cost, to me it seemed positive. However, I am still confused and wanted to what the community think about it.
Any suggestion, comment on it?
Here is the comparison from CPUbenchmark.net