Ideas for strong single thread CPUs for boards with IPMI/remote access
I've been thinking of upgrading away from my R710, partly due to noise, and partly due to the poor single thread performance of those CPU generations.
The i5-4690 would be my 'budget' choice since an Optiplex 9020 with one in it and 8GB of RAM can be bought for ~$120-150 used. However it's a desktop PC and as far as I know has no remote management capability.
I was looking at the E5-1620 v2 CPU as a fairly similar alternative that could work with server-grade motherboards, but it's still slower than the i5 for single thread.
I don't really need lots of multicore performance, ~8000 passmark score would be totally fine. And low idle power would be really nice (the optiplex 9020 is around 20W!).
I thought I'd see if anyone here has any other ideas I missed! Ideally I'd like to spend less than $150 on the MB and CPU.
| . | E5-1620 | i5-4690 |
|---|---|---|
| Single | 1964 | 2217 |
| Multi | 9469 | 7673 |
Posted Mar 7, 2019, 11:02 PM UTC · edited
Worth nothing that a i5 will not support any ECC RAM, and non ECC DDR3 is perhaps more than double the price of ECC DDR3, plus you probably already have some ECC RAM. However if you want single core, you can consider a -k CPU and overclockable motherboard, so you'll get more single core performance out of it.
Yeah the RAM prices are killer, that's a huge downside. I just need to find a server CPU with good single core performance lol.
If you haven't seen this already, check this chart out. Been very helpful in helping me decide which CPU I should get.
Looks like all DDR3 Xeons top off at about 2k passmark per core. Anything above would be a Core series CPU. Maybe take a look at r/hardwareswap for a older overclockable system?
Yeah that's where I found the E5-1620 v2, it seems like the best option for a budget build so far..
It looks like anything LGA2011 is going to be massively power hungry too, an LGA1155 E3-1270 V2 is about $80 so maybe that's a better choice, it also just breaks the 2000 passmark score.