Whats better for folding, core duo or Xeon's

The MacPro uses Woodcrest Xeon processors, it has 2x Dual Core 2.66 cpus, I know for Boinc Seti its pretty much unbeatable 1500+RAC, id expect Folding to be a similar story, im just waiting for an OSX intel folding client to be released and ill be able to give you figures.
 
Dreeder, for those of us who are not familiar with BOINC's crediting system, approximately how much RAC does an average machine get? By average I mean something like a P4 2.8 GHz with SSE enabled.
 
Sorry not a clue, I know my Xp3500+ is good for about 250RAC.
An X2 XP3800 is good for 580RAC
It appears a P4 2.8 using multithreading is about 300RAC
 
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My dual xeon at 2.8GHz does between 7 and 800points a day, same with my X2 4400 so 1500 is really going some.
 
This is a single WU

Its shows that 4 computers have completed the workunit, mine being at the bottom of the list, its taken 7500seconds to gain 62credits, the others have taken 20000+seconds for the same 62credits.
 
Just to confirm. Get the Core 2 Duo.

My single 1.66GHz Core Duo smacks my Dual Xeon into the middle of last month. Even allowing for the fact that I have the older-model Prestonia Xeons by halving the frame times (seems like a reasonable approach), it still wins. Even allowing for the fact I'm under-utilising my Xeons by taking a third off again, it still (just) wins.

Now take a Core 2 Duo which performs about 20% faster than the equivalent Core Duo (Intel figures), ramp up the clock, bear in mind the Core 2 Duos can score fantastic overclocks, and you'll be smashing those Xeons into last year.

PS - XP Pro allows two sockets. I'm not sure if it imposes a limit on cores/socket or not.
 
I am running 2 woodcrests at 3ghz on an Intel 5000x chipset and in sandra they get 300,000 on integer and 180,000 on floating which I think is pretty impressive.
 
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I am running 2 woodcrests at 3ghz on an Intel 5000x chipset and in sandra they get 300,000 on integer and 180,000 on floating which I think is pretty impressive.
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What sort of scores do you see from the rig in DC apps?
 
Have not really benched it yet or done any folding to tell you the truth as I more into using the thing then running benches.

What are the best ones to run ?

<edit>Of course I probably should not be posting here as I know zilch about DC, but I saw a mention of woodcrest :)</edit>
 
It'd be great to see some Folding scores and I'm sure some Seti wouldn't be unappreciated either.

EDIT: Ah, don't be such a stranger. If you'd like to get involved with us say the word and we'll bend over backwards to help. :)
 
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