On [H]ardForum, a kind user worked out for me a year ago the Handbrake performance comparison of a dual X5670 with some of the fastest consumer CPUs at that time: https://hardforum.com/threads/replacing-dual-x5670.1963388/#... turned out the 2700X is 1.95 times as fast in Handbrake as a single X5670.

I always forget that used servers are dirt cheap in the USA compared to other countries.

The other good thing about geting a Dell/HP rack server is you can have 16 drive bays (or more) easily.

The actual hardware is not bad, its just the perf per $ ratio is not great when you compare it to zen 2.

Kudos to AMD

Fair, but at $370 I think the ratio gets much better.

Not after you price the power. I have a Xeon system that is plenty powerful for my (C++) dev work, but I'm thinking of replacing it with an AMD build as it'll probably be cheaper over time. Then again, this is at Dutch energy costs, I'd imagine at (say) Texas cost it'd be different.

Not sure it's significantly better after factoring in power and auxiliary costs like cooling.

Where from?