Replacing newer CPU with older one???

neavissa

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Hi,

I have a T620 that I use for video editing. It has Dual E5-2620 CPU's, 64Gb RAM, 4 x 7200 HDD in RAID 5 and a GTX 780 Ti. I thought it would be "enough" for working with 4k GoPro files, and it somewhat is, but rendering certain files takes forever (really slow FPS).

Anyhow, I was thinking of upgrading the system with new CPU's, so I started looking here to get an idea what to get:

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

I have a budget and I am looking for the best bang for the buck. While doing so, I noticed that it said under CPUmark/$Price: NA. That made me realize that the CPU is not available anymore. However, you can get it used on eBay for little money.

Now to my actual question:

Does it make sense to replace my E5-2620 cpu's, which have a benchmark of 8012, with the way older E5-2696 v2, which has a benchmark of 16681???

Thanks,

G

EDIT: I meant the E5-2670 @ 2.60GHz and not the E5-2696 v2!
 


I used a program called "SPECCY" to see what motherboard I have and it says:

Manufacturer Dell Inc.
Model 0658N7 (CPU1)
Chipset Vendor Intel
Chipset Model Sandy Bridge-E
Chipset Revision 07
Southbridge Vendor Intel
Southbridge Model X79
Southbridge Revision 05

That doesn't meant much to me. However, I also looked at the manual of the T620 and it says: Processors Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 product family.

That to me means that it would indeed support the E5-2696 v2. Correct?

Speaking of "only if your application can take advantage of twice as many threads"... I don't really know how this works?! I use Adobe Premiere all the time, but I never see my CPU at 100%? Why wouldn't it be working as hard as it can? The question is, what does 100% really mean? I guess if you have 10 cores, but your applications only uses 2 and they run at 100%, you would be at 20% total CPU, right?

thanks.

 
Dear neavissa,
of course upgrading the cpu to new with a higher score is better. The score is the only thing that counts and the best way not to get confused with generation and turbo boost etc
 
Well, the question is if the score is the only thing I should go by? I guess so? So replacing my current CPU with one that is OLDER, but way faster, should make sense, right?

thanks.

 


Yeah, that makes sense... Thanks!