i7 vs i5 Adobe

[Stickmansam]

Hi,

I have a friend running CS6 and I have a x58 board lying arround. Right now, I can grab him a i7 920 for about $100 and then OC it say about 3.3-3.5 since its an Zotac x58 and likely only a 212+. Another option would be to grab an 1155 board and run something like an i5 or AM3+ with FX6300/8350.

He's going to be mainly doing 2D rendering in After Effects and encoding with Premiere. Mainly wedding jobs and the like. Maybe some 3d in the future.

Primary costs are the biggest concern (power being secondary [6-10 cents a kilowatt]) but how much more speed will using a newer arch/socket give him? Will saving up for an Xeon E3/i7 be worth it?

Right now he's running an i3 on an H55 @3.3ghz.

Thanks!

 

[Eug]

For a work machine, I wouldn't recommend overclocking.

 

[Stickmansam]

For a work machine, I wouldn't recommend overclocking.

Would there be a big difference from running an i7 920 @ max turbo (3ghz) and say any of the stock alternatives I mentioned and power consumption as well.

 

[tweakboy]

i7 and SSD and powerful GPU.

 

[john3850]

In Cinebench speed test my old oc i7-930 gets a7.65.
In Cinebench speed my i7-3770k gets 9.55
Point being the x58 is just as good most i5 do to the ht or 8 threads.
The x58 may have 6 memory slots or 24-gb for the memory

 

[john3850]

Slow 6 core xeon on a x58 good read.
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2335636

 

[Burpo]

The Xeon L5639 is a much better choice for rendering and are available on ebay for less than $100. They're low power (less heat) and overclock well with the X58 chipset. My cinebench scores are between 9.57 & 9.85 and the hex core performance really shows in any rendering jobs I've done.. Ebay has plenty below $100..
http://www.ebay.com/itm/INTEL-XEON-...US_Server_CPUs_Processors&hash=item58a194d392

Less than $80
http://www.ebay.com/itm/INTEL-XEON-...d=100005&prg=1088&rk=2&rkt=5&sd=380668007314&

There's a great thread here that discusses the processor & X58 in detail..
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2335636

 

[Stickmansam]

Those $80-100 Xeons seems good and a light OC on them would be nice

Thanks for bringing them up guys I was thinking i7 970+ but those are pricey

 

[Burpo]

Light overclock? Edit; Oops, I just read you have the Zotac X58 and it's very limited for overclocking & may not support the chip..

100%+ Overclock @ 4.275Ghz! .. but that's it.. Max'd out & starting to throttle (couldn't hit 10 in Cinebench

Might want to consider the W3540 tho for $50 instead of I7 920
Clockspeed: 2.9 GHz, Turbo Speed: 3.2 GHz, No of Cores: 4 (2 logical cores per physical), Max TDP: 130 W

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Xeon-...sor-/161114068416?pt=CPUs&hash=item25832595c0

 

[Stickmansam]

Thanks for the heads up. I think'll shoot Zotac a quick email asking for their CPU support. The W3540 seems great put it does not ship to Canada (Vancouver). I'll look into other offers. Thanks for all the research you've (all of you) done!

A light OC is below 30% OC

 

[Burpo]

It does support an I7 970 so L5639 will probably work, just no overclock..

 

[Stickmansam]

It does support an I7 970 so L5639 will probably work, just no overclock..

So I can't overclock due to lack of ability to do so or because the board would fry? Would ordering some VRM heat sinks alleviate the issue?

 

[Burpo]

From what I've read the board & bios does not allow for overclocking. That's why I would consider the W3540 Xeon.. It has 8 threads & runs up to 3.2ghz @ 1066 FSB..

 

[Stickmansam]

From what I've read the board & bios does not allow for overclocking. That's why I would consider the W3540 Xeon.. It has 8 threads & runs up to 3.2ghz @ 1066 FSB..

They sent me this =.=
They say these are the only chips they have tested.....

ZOTAC X58

Tested CPU
CPU type Speed CMOS CPU power
Core i7-965 Extreme 3.2GHz 45nm 130W
Core i7-940 2.93GHz 45nm 130W
Core i7-920 2.66GHz 45nm 130W


Tested memory
Model marker memory size chipset marker DDR type
SAMSUNG 2GB DDR3-1066 PC8500 DDR3-1066
AENEON 2GB 2GB DDR3-1333 DDR3-1333
Corsair 1GB CM3X1024-1333C9 DDR3-1333
AENEON 2GB PC3-12800U-9 DDR3-1600

 

[Burpo]

(Xeons) W3540 or even W3570 @ 3.2GHZ will work on an X58 board..