Wasted Upgrade or something you would also do?

[choliscott]

Hi Everyone,

I picked up a I5 2500K cpu yesterday for a possible upgrade. The machine it would upgrade is currently running a 1090-T. The main purpose of the machine is Windows Media Center & serving 4 extenders. I was also planning on having it run smaller tasks, where running it on my main machine would cause interference.

I have looked on Ebay & see that the cpu is still going for anywhere between $110-$150. I even saw that there was a cpu/board combo for $230. What was ironic, that it was the same board I am currently running with it.

So the question, if you were in my shoes & could at least recoup 50% of the cost of the I5 by selling the 1090, would you upgrade or would the recoup cost have to be higher?

I should say that the cpu cost was $220 & I already have a Z68 motherboard

Thanks

 

[moonbogg]

For your tasks, you could sell the 1090 and buy an E8400 and pocket the extra change. Hell, you could use a single core CPU for what you are doing. Why the hell do you need a fast quad core for windows media center? Am I missing something here? You could run your workload on a pocket watch.

 

[borisvodofsky]

Hi Everyone,

I picked up a I5 2500K cpu yesterday for a possible upgrade. The machine it would upgrade is currently running a 1090-T. The main purpose of the machine is Windows Media Center & serving 4 extenders. I was also planning on having it run smaller tasks, where running it on my main machine would cause interference.

I have looked on Ebay & see that the cpu is still going for anywhere between $110-$150. I even saw that there was a cpu/board combo for $230. What was ironic, that it was the same board I am currently running with it.

So the question, if you were in my shoes & could at least recoup 50% of the cost of the I5 by selling the 1090, would you upgrade or would the recoup cost have to be higher?

I should say that the cpu cost was $220 & I already have a Z68 motherboard

Thanks

I think you've paid a bit high for the 2500k, I'm guessing you also don't have microcenter.

but ah... 2500k overclocked is roughly double the 1090t performance in most tasks, and the overall responsiveness in terms of memory latency and bandwidth is very noticeable with the 2500k.

AMD has been pretty behind on desktop performance. I would definitely get the Intel going.

 

[Makaveli]

If it were me what you are doing doesn't sound that processor intensive and I would have just stayed with the 1090. However since you have the chip already now I would just finish off the upgrade and sell off the AMD chip.

 

[choliscott]

Media center recommends a core per extender being used (which I have 4 extenders in use). I will agree that the 1090t is probably overboard, but it was what I had sitting around at the time I decided to use WMC for my tv recording. Also doesn't the E8400 use an 775 chipset board? I currently have an extra 1155 board

For your tasks, you could sell the 1090 and buy an E8400 and pocket the extra change. Hell, you could use a single core CPU for what you are doing. Why the hell do you need a fast quad core for windows media center? Am I missing something here? You could run your workload on a pocket watch.

 

[choliscott]

Nope, no Microcenter near by. Trust me, I keep reading about the cpu deals.

I think you've paid a bit high for the 2500k, I'm guessing you also don't have microcenter.

but ah... 2500k overclocked is roughly double the 1090t performance in most tasks, and the overall responsiveness in terms of memory latency and bandwidth is very noticeable with the 2500k.

AMD has been pretty behind on desktop performance. I would definitely get the Intel going.

I would agree that for what I'm currently doing its not cpu intensive, thus the reason why I asked. I have 15 days to return the CPU & haven't opened it

If it were me what you are doing doesn't sound that processor intensive and I would have just stayed with the 1090. However since you have the chip already now I would just finish off the upgrade and sell off the AMD chip.

 

[2is]

For your tasks, you could sell the 1090 and buy an E8400 and pocket the extra change. Hell, you could use a single core CPU for what you are doing. Why the hell do you need a fast quad core for windows media center? Am I missing something here? You could run your workload on a pocket watch.

It's a media server, which means it may very well have to transcode on-the-fly depending on the type of media and the extenders he's using. My media server is running on an e5200 and my extender is a PS3. If the file format isn't natively supported by the PS3 it needs to transcode on-the-fly and for HD content, it choaks. What I've started to do now to avoid this is encode my media in formats I know the PS3 supports.

 

[moonbogg]

OK so Q6600 then. No but really, 2500K will be way faster at anything you do. if you find yourself waiting at all, go with the 2500K. It just seems that any modern CPU would do the job.