I received the system a while back (from my grandfather before he passed away) and I've been trying to find a use for it since. Due to the age (and specs) it takes 3 to 4 times the amount of time to render a video compared to my main rig (specs below), with or without hardware encoding. Now compared to a FX-8350 I had, it performed only 23 points behind in cinebench. My only concern is the power consumption since it uses 2 E5440's which both have a TDP of 80W (160W total). Any suggestions or is it not worth it (rather not waste since just gets melted down)?
Specs:
Dell T7400:
CPU: 2x Xeon E5440
Ram: 16GB DDR2 ECC
Graphics: GTX 1050ti
HDD/SDD: 128GB SSD and 150GB HDD
PSU:1000W
Main Rig:
CPU: i7-7700k
Ram: 16GB DDR4
Graphics: GTX 970
HDD/SDD: 128 M.2, 128GB SSD and 2TB HDD
PSU:650W
Specs:
Dell T7400:
CPU: 2x Xeon E5440
Ram: 16GB DDR2 ECC
Graphics: GTX 1050ti
HDD/SDD: 128GB SSD and 150GB HDD
PSU:1000W
Main Rig:
CPU: i7-7700k
Ram: 16GB DDR4
Graphics: GTX 970
HDD/SDD: 128 M.2, 128GB SSD and 2TB HDD
PSU:650W
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