- Jun 2, 2009
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Got an issue with one of my clients needing maximum single thread performance for some data crunching. It's worth real money, and there are a variety of reasons (some boiling down to lack of time from the programmers) we cannot get multithreaded code anytime in the foreseeable future. They've already cleaned things up as much as they're going to get cleaned up, and it's still a real choke point.
Right now the job is running on an i5 4590. Based on the benchmarks I've seen it looks like we wouldn't get more than maybe 10-20% max going to a 4790K or 6700K. We've discussed overclocking and nobody wants that of course but if it can yield a major throughput advantage we could set it up for fault tolerance with a backup machine.
We don't care about the Z170 platform advantages, M.2, etc. All we need is one thread going absolutely as fast as possible short of liquid nitrogen and other crazy solutions.
Suggestions?
Right now the job is running on an i5 4590. Based on the benchmarks I've seen it looks like we wouldn't get more than maybe 10-20% max going to a 4790K or 6700K. We've discussed overclocking and nobody wants that of course but if it can yield a major throughput advantage we could set it up for fault tolerance with a backup machine.
We don't care about the Z170 platform advantages, M.2, etc. All we need is one thread going absolutely as fast as possible short of liquid nitrogen and other crazy solutions.
Suggestions?