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@JMY1000 I ended up getting a Xeon E5-1660 v2 (3.7GHz base, 4.0GHz turbo) and it is already performing much much better than the old processor I had.
I'm now considering going with a dual E5-2667v2 system (3.3GHz base, 4.0GHz turbo) with 128GB DDR3 1866 RAM
it seems like it will work out to be around $1000 for this level of upgrade
although with this CPU I can now stand to wait 6 months or so and see what AMD Zen 2 brings to the table
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