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Originally Posted by xenigo
$3378 just for the CPU's is nothing short of insanity. The Core i7 920 is $289 and does pretty well... Personally I think money would be better spent buying 2 or 3 of these machines if you really need to do something big in a hurry.
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Yeah it was a little overboard, but I have 5 video machines and they were all built with 2 of the fastest Xeon processors available at the time, the oldest one is around 7 years old and still works fine (I'm turning into a server next month) and I just continued that tradition.
I stick with Xeon because they run cooler and have a lower error rate than any other processor, hence the price, it's also why they are used in servers.
I've had large batch encodings go for 100 hours non-stop without any problems whatsoever.
For me that kind of stability is worth the money.
Plus I'm trying to get away from having 5 machines running all the time, it gives me a headache
