Yea, i had a feeling you budget was constrained alot.
You can't really get better than a 1155 E3.
Now your need to ask yourself how you feel about Overclocking.
There's a new Version 2 of the E3 line coming out.
v2 of E3-1290 is going to be 3,7 GHZ - 4.1GHZ turbo.
Generally all get a +100mhz boost.
HOWEVER:
Since your on the mainstream platform, you could easily get a 2700k/2600k
with nearly ANY COOLER and clock that baby up to 4,5 and beyond.
Your best choice of action IMHO:
Get a 2600k/2700k - Get a Noctua NH-D14 (Settle with fans coming with it - you dont need the extra few TDP/Degrees, you just need 90%).
Instantly clock up to 4,7/4.8 - once stable try lower voltage til your around 1.350 and below (Maybe you get a lucky chip )
Try and save abit on the motherboard department.
You do not need much - we know SB OC's magicly even "non quality boards".
Case:
Try save here again - you don't really need a gaming case.
You won't have a GPU and the DH-14 should take care of everything.
Go for a 510, cherryville SSD Intel.
(It's 500 USD for a 256 gb, so save some cash elsewhere).
I'd imagine you need reliability for gaussian - so this is a must imho
+ better I/O. Intels firmware wins as anand said it.
Ram:
You've selected 4GB sticks.
That won't fly if you want 32 GB - just so your aware.
your ram costs should increase, if you want 8 GB sticks.
You can only focus your efforts on I/O and raw cycle speed.
The 8MB cache isn't ideal for your workload in optimal conditions but comparing to your single core Xeon's - you will get at minimum 3 probably 5 times faster times on your workload.
It's all you can do.
Atm any E5 Sandy or 5600 Nehalem/westmere based server will most likely cost you more - once you get disks and ram dimm's inside.
(Especially if you get ECC buffered).
I don't really know prices in america, only northern europe and a new box wether 1U or Tower will cost significantly more with disks/ram and a E5 even E3.
I don't think you can do it better.
You can't really get better than a 1155 E3.
Now your need to ask yourself how you feel about Overclocking.
There's a new Version 2 of the E3 line coming out.
v2 of E3-1290 is going to be 3,7 GHZ - 4.1GHZ turbo.
Generally all get a +100mhz boost.
HOWEVER:
Since your on the mainstream platform, you could easily get a 2700k/2600k
with nearly ANY COOLER and clock that baby up to 4,5 and beyond.
Your best choice of action IMHO:
Get a 2600k/2700k - Get a Noctua NH-D14 (Settle with fans coming with it - you dont need the extra few TDP/Degrees, you just need 90%).
Instantly clock up to 4,7/4.8 - once stable try lower voltage til your around 1.350 and below (Maybe you get a lucky chip )
Try and save abit on the motherboard department.
You do not need much - we know SB OC's magicly even "non quality boards".
Case:
Try save here again - you don't really need a gaming case.
You won't have a GPU and the DH-14 should take care of everything.
Go for a 510, cherryville SSD Intel.
(It's 500 USD for a 256 gb, so save some cash elsewhere).
I'd imagine you need reliability for gaussian - so this is a must imho
+ better I/O. Intels firmware wins as anand said it.
Ram:
You've selected 4GB sticks.
That won't fly if you want 32 GB - just so your aware.
your ram costs should increase, if you want 8 GB sticks.
You can only focus your efforts on I/O and raw cycle speed.
The 8MB cache isn't ideal for your workload in optimal conditions but comparing to your single core Xeon's - you will get at minimum 3 probably 5 times faster times on your workload.
It's all you can do.
Atm any E5 Sandy or 5600 Nehalem/westmere based server will most likely cost you more - once you get disks and ram dimm's inside.
(Especially if you get ECC buffered).
I don't really know prices in america, only northern europe and a new box wether 1U or Tower will cost significantly more with disks/ram and a E5 even E3.
I don't think you can do it better.
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