Question Does a purchase of a E5-1650v3 make sense today?

[GeezerMan]

A local computer shop deals in retired corporate computers . They have heavy, well made workstations with
Xeon E5-1650v3, ( passmark 13618,) six cores (2 logical cores per physical)
16 GB DDR4 @ 2133MHz ,
700 watt ps,
two 15K SAS Hard Disk Drives,
256GB Solid State Drive ,
quadro 4200,
windows 10 pro.
These parts are all obsolete now, and the cpu is a 140 watt monster!.

They sell these for about 400 bucks.

opinions please for use as a video encoder, maybe some gaming with a different card compared to building a new Ryzen machine

thanks

 

[jamesdsimone]

Definitely something to consider, and I have looked at some of the Broadwell EP options. Not sure what exactly would be best, and to save money I may just stick with the 1660 v3 for now. I think the Broadwell EP chips go for a bit more money usually, and I am not sure how much power savings and IPC boost there would be. I wasn't sure if they were significant, but if so that could be a nice bonus.

The v4's are only a little more expensive. 14 cores for 10USD here. 22 cores for around 120USD. I don't know much about how your computer needs work but I assume your work load likes lots of cores? If you wanted to get fancy, dual V4 CPU work stations are cheap. You could have 44 cores for under 500

Intel Xeon E5-2660 V4 14-Core 2.00GHz CPU | eBay

The processor is in perfect working condition.

www.ebay.com

Intel Xeon E5-2699v4 2.2GHz 22-Core SR2JS CPU Processor #A18 | eBay

Model: Xeon E5-2699v4 2.2GHz 22-Core (SR2JS). Summary: 1 CPU. Sold as used, fully functional. The picturesare the cpu for sale. Nothing else is included. Condition: Used, fully functional.

www.ebay.com

 

[therealmongo]

nice necro thread resurrection

depends on the price and use case, the other day I bought a E3-1246 V3 (3.5GHz. 4 cores, 8 threads, 84W) to replace a G3258 (3.2GHz. 2 cores, 2 threads, 53W) for a file server for 37€ (for a MSI H97M-E35 motherboard).

I was looking for a reasonably priced E3-1286 v3, E3-1285 v4 or even an E3-1285L v4, after failing to find those the E3-1246 V3 was a steal

 

[jamesdsimone]

nice necro thread resurrection

depends on the price and use case, the other day I bought a E3-1246 V3 (3.5GHz. 4 cores, 8 threads, 84W) to replace a G3258 (3.2GHz. 2 cores, 2 threads, 53W) for a file server for 37€ (for a MSI H97M-E35 motherboard).

I was looking for a reasonably priced E3-1286 v3, E3-1285 v4 or even an E3-1285L v4, after failing to find those the E3-1246 V3 was a steal

Were you looking for a low power part?