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Please tell. Between a Conroe E6600 OC @ 3.6Ghz and a Quad Core Xeon E5310 at stock (1.6Ghz 2 × 4M Cache 1066 MT/s) what would crunch those numbers faster (I have folding on the brain)
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Linz said:No way Hosey
On the Vue 5 Infinite 'CERRO VERDE' scene my QX6700 took 3 Mins 22 Secs, comfortably beating a Dual Xeon 5160 @ 3000 MHz that took 3 mn 31
Vue 6? Read it and weep..
64-bit scores (higher better)
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685 : Core 2 Extreme QX6700 @ 3.20 GHz (288741)
633 : Core 2 Extreme QX6700 @ 2.93 GHz (288741)
584 : Core 2 Extreme QX6700 @ 2.66 GHz (288741)
507 : Dual Opteron 285 @ 2.73 GHz (288741)
444 : Dual Opteron 275 @ 2.20 GHz (288741)
300 : Opteron 165 @ 2.66 GHz (288741)
291 : Athlon 64 X2 3800+ @ 2.65 GHz (288741)
274 : Core 2 Duo E6400 @ 2.32 GHz (288741)
240 : Athlon 64 X2 4200+ @2.20 GHz (288741)
32-bit scores
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497 : MacPro @ 3.00 GHz (288741)
469 : Dual Opteron 285 @ 2.73 GHz (288741)
446 : MacPro @ 2.66 GHz (288741)
411 : Dual Opteron 275 @ 2.39 GHz (288741)
263 : Opteron 165 @ 2.66 GHz (288741)
253 : Core 2 Duo E6400 @ 2.32 GHz (288741)
183 : Core 2 Duo T5500 @ 1.66 GHz (288741)
170 : Core Duo T2400 @ 1.83 GHz (288741)
164 : Dual Xeon (Prestonia) @ 2.8 GHz (288741)
119 : Athlon 64 3400+ @ 2.40 GHz (288741)
110 : Pentium 4C @ 3.40 GHz (288741)
107 : Pentium 4C @ 3.24 GHz (288741)
100 : Pentium 4C @ 3.00 GHz (288741)
Elric said:..The difference will be that with the XEON, you can always slap in another chip and double the cores.![]()
AWBbox said:Thanks for the response, though i'm not swayed by either processor as of yet. By the way the E5310 is Clovertown, not KentsfeildI am considering making a bit of a folding farm and I was wondering what processing choice was going to get me best bang for my buck. Bearing in mind I can be getting a E5310 server-system for about £460 new as opposed to what it would cost to build and overclock a conroe system.