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Dual Xeon or Conroe

Nikumba

Nikumba

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Looking at making a high end system.

Which will offer better performance either Dual 3.6Ghz Xeons or Conroe?

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a vote for the xeons, but not the current generation, the new ones when they come out are based on conroes architecture i think (woodcrest i think), so they clock well, be faster than AMD clock for clock, and doubling up will surely obliterate conroe :D (i am highly interested in the new xeons and am thinking about going dual xeon when the new ones come around)
 
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sr4470 said:
Dualcore > dual cpus.
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i hate to tell you i think the new xeons are going to be dual core based mainly on conroes architecture, with some minor additions to suit its targetted market. might be looking at more cache, obviously SMP support, supposidly LGA771 socket, were looking at 2.93Ghz at 1333Mhz FSB for woodcrest on 65nm, don't think conroe will be better than woodcrest, i think dual woodcrest > conroe by a fair bit in multithreaded applications. its also reasonable to say woodcrest will overclock well being based on conroe and 65nm technology, its proberbly gonna cream the opteron in the MP market and might very well outperform conroe systems
 
but woodcrest is going to be dual core though and isn't based on netburst, so i was talking about two dual core woodcrest vs. dual core conroe, and how it would proberbly be a faster system. just saying that conroe won't be faster than xeons for long, only until the new xeons arrive, then your basically looking at being able to make a system with the processing power of two conroes on MP board. if you were willing to wait and had the budget woodcrest seems the faster option, if you can't wait conroe is the stronger option
 
Imy said:
A lot of the woodcrest motherboards have PCI-E slots so another from Asus isn't even that necessary I think.

Tyan's Range
Gigabyte's Range
Supermicro's Range

Also a cheaper way to get SAS support for those nice new Cheetah 15.5K's.
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I think he's talking more about the overclocking potential of the boards more than PCI-E etc. ASUS are pretty much the only company that actually sell boards that you properly overclock. :)

Edit: just read the other post, so i was right. :D
 
Amp34 said:
I think he's talking more about the overclocking potential of the boards more than PCI-E etc. ASUS are pretty much the only company that actually sell boards that you properly overclock. :)

Edit: just read the other post, so i was right. :D
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Ahhh ok. Might be worth trying to find out if the others overclock also. Can someone who knows what to ask specifically about fire off some emails?
 
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