Motherboard Upgrade

[Gander0]

I'm in the process of buying a new system but whilst looking at my old workstation motherboard I realised it may have some upgrade options as far as cpu's, which might help it perform as a render node.

 

Options below:

 

5130, 5140, 5148LV, 5150, 5160, E5220*, E5240*, E5260*, X5260*, X5270*, E5335, L5335,

E5345, X5355, X5365, E5405^, E5410^, L5410, E5420^, L5420, E5430^, L5430^, E5440^, E5450^, X5450^, X5460^, X5470^

(2.0 - 3.50GHz)

 

Currently I have 2 x Xeon E5345 chips and was wondering if anyone knew how much of a performance increase (In rendering terms.) that I might see if I say stepped up to X5470 processors.

 

They are pretty pricey £800+ so am a bit dubious about the value

 

Any help is much appreciated

[Slinger]

What is your current configuration? What would is your budget?

[Gander0]

Hi Slinger,

 

This is some theoretical future budget as all my money is going into my new workstation.

 

It would also pretty much depend on how much a difference there are between those chips in the list.

 

The current set - up which I'm using now and would be wanting to change is:

 

Dual Xeon E5345 2.33GHz X 2

Tyan Tempest i5400XT mobo

8 GB RAM

Quadro FX 3700 (would move to new machine for time being)

Vista

[AJLynn]

Can't type long but:

 

If you replace the CPUs they must be socket 771 Core2-type Xeons. Assuming you get dual quad cores, render speed increase is directly proportional to CPU GHz increase. E.g., upgrading to 3GHz gets you a 28% increase.

 

Using the multiplier method from a post I made on this board a couple of days ago, your current system is equivalent to an i7-generation system with total of about 10GHz and a 3GHz upgrade would be equivalent to an i7 with about 13GHz total. If you can get such an i7 system for less than the cost of upgrading the CPUs, the CPU upgrades don't make sense.

[Gander0]

Many thanks Andrew,

 

I found the post you were referring to an need to do some calculations but I'm thinking it might not be worth it.