Hello everyone,
I'm thinking of building secondary PC system for Monte Carlo simulation and similar analysis and thought crossed my mind why not buy some "cheap" old LGA2011 double CPU socket motherboard and pair it with two old Xeon E5-2670 2.6 (3.3)GHz processors, rather than buying new i7 or Ryzen. This way I could get 16 cores, 32 threats system, for a fraction of a price of a single i7 6950X CPU system and also considerably cheaper then single Ryzen 7 1800X CPU rig.
Where is the catch/drawback? It sounds just too good to be true. Am I missing something?
I'm thinking of building secondary PC system for Monte Carlo simulation and similar analysis and thought crossed my mind why not buy some "cheap" old LGA2011 double CPU socket motherboard and pair it with two old Xeon E5-2670 2.6 (3.3)GHz processors, rather than buying new i7 or Ryzen. This way I could get 16 cores, 32 threats system, for a fraction of a price of a single i7 6950X CPU system and also considerably cheaper then single Ryzen 7 1800X CPU rig.
Where is the catch/drawback? It sounds just too good to be true. Am I missing something?