Currently I have a custom rig built with EVGA SR-2, dual Asus GTX 580 DCII, and dual X5650 and it's a beast that rips 3D rendering in just few hours where a $250 Walmart junk would take about a month to do. 12 total cores, and with Intel Hyper Threading it looks like 24 cores.
However the last time I did anything that really used up a lot of processing power was many months ago. It's mostly playing games these day and rarely games can use more than 3 cores. It's like having a push mower with a Formula F-1 engine or something. Right now it's sucking an average of 11 cents per hour of electricity, which is rather pricey. It's quite nice in the winter time though but a $30 electric space heater is much easier to move around than my $3000 (at the time I built) system.
I was planning to revive an older computer that I also built just a few months before I built this dual XEON rig. It is Asus P8P67 Deluxe with Intel 2700k, I wanted to move the video cards and hard drives to it, and sell off the retired XEON hardware.
Would that still be decent computer or should I look for something a bit newer than 3 years old spare parts? I might consider selling the 2 GTX 580 if there's a comparable single NVidia video card for less power (780 maybe?) The money I get from selling XEON hardware will go toward the swap or upgrade.
However the last time I did anything that really used up a lot of processing power was many months ago. It's mostly playing games these day and rarely games can use more than 3 cores. It's like having a push mower with a Formula F-1 engine or something. Right now it's sucking an average of 11 cents per hour of electricity, which is rather pricey. It's quite nice in the winter time though but a $30 electric space heater is much easier to move around than my $3000 (at the time I built) system.
I was planning to revive an older computer that I also built just a few months before I built this dual XEON rig. It is Asus P8P67 Deluxe with Intel 2700k, I wanted to move the video cards and hard drives to it, and sell off the retired XEON hardware.
Would that still be decent computer or should I look for something a bit newer than 3 years old spare parts? I might consider selling the 2 GTX 580 if there's a comparable single NVidia video card for less power (780 maybe?) The money I get from selling XEON hardware will go toward the swap or upgrade.