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Jul 07, 2021
A top of the line CPU
Disclamer: This product is used in a software development workstation by day, and gaming rig by night, with a SuperMicro SuperChassis 747BTQ-R1K62B barebone kit, as an upgrade to a pair of Xeon E5-2630 v2.
I came to this part with great hopes of reviving my old workstation as I patiently wait for Zen3 Threadrippers. I have been considering it since the day I built the machine originally, but the 2k+ price tag per chip was way out of budget for me and I had to settle for way way less than I wanted. Since this day, my only concern was the cooling performance of my current gear. While the case is designed to withstand pretty much anything you could throw at it, I wasn't so sure of the tower coolers than came with the kit.
Fast forward 6 years and, as expected, these CPUs are clear top of the line products. The performance difference with the previous midrange chips that were in this system is outstanding and, even higher than expected. It is amazing to see the difference 800 mHz extra base clock can do. My cooling concerns were also way overblown as going from 65 to 150 watt TDP only raised the temps from 35 to 68 deg C under a heavy Prime95 load.
While it isn't a modern CPU with tons of features like AVX2, fancy new virtualisation extensions, and insane performance, a pair of those is still more than capable today. I often run multiple VMs for development and... well... I frankly don't even care to close them when I fire up a game. The amount of PCIe lanes is more than enough to get a GPU, sound card, and multiple NVME SSDs in your system, just like you would expect of a modern high end machine.
Besides the still limited clock speed by today's standards, it will perform incredibly well in almost every scenarios and are a great value with perfs that are on par with an 8700k (per chip) as long as your workload scales well.
Feb 15, 2018
Got it to rebuild an existing RAID array. Working like a charm.
This SSD is way over priced for what it is. It is old and predates the more modern -and faster-
NVME SSDs so I wouldn't buy it unless I had no other choice... which is exactly why I bought it!
I have a 4 drive RAID 10 array using those drives and, unfortunately, one of them failed so I had to replace it. This was just what I was looking for to get that RAID array going again.