xeon or i7 ??

Treebo88

Treebo88

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Hi. Sorry I cant search as on my phone so had to post so sorry if this has been asked already.

Im looking at 2 setups ... A core i7 6 core 2011 with 32gb ram or a evga motherboard with two of the 6 core xeons thats in overclockers store... With the full amount of ram which would be 96gb I believe... Also if I went for the evga and the xeons will corsairs vengeance ddr3 1600 8gb ram sticks work ? As I have 32gb of that already...

Again I appologise as I cant look this up on my phone. Already tried and takes too long to load web pages amd I wont have a pc till this ones built. Soon as ive heard from you guys ill b strait on overclockers to order up the build so my new build rests on your advice lol
 
Its more as a project. I dont mind the price as long as I get a beast out of it. If a i7 could keep up there would be no point in xeons lol. Will the corsairs work with the mobo and 6 core xeons ??
 
Treebo88 said:
Its more as a project. I dont mind the price as long as I get a beast out of it. If a i7 could keep up there would be no point in xeons lol. Will the corsairs work with the mobo and 6 core xeons ??
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well is this for gaming? if so go with the i7 as that is all you need there is no game (i think) that utilises 2 physical cpus yet alone 24 threads if its a server the xeons all the way
 
I've just been playing with a dual-xeon 32GB ram server at work, I physically can't max it out in anything I've tried to do other than stress testing. I can max out the CPU OR the RAM, but not both. And even then it's only by thing like encoding video which are designed to just use whatever is available.
 
The only thing I know of which burns through that much ram is meshing for computational fluid dynamics. There are probably other uses.
 
If you have to ask what the difference between a single i7 and dual xeons with 96gb of memory then you should really do a little bit of research into what you are going to use it for. Or is this just another "I am dreaming of buying a silly spec computer" thread?
 
What are you going to use the machine for?

I had two quad xeons on the old 2008 mac pro, and I admit they were great.
Xeons are good for workstations, and the ram that comes with it is a huge benefit.

However I have switched to the i7 3930K, and it obviously out performs the old xeons I had, I am doing work with higher CPU loads and more RAM usage than before and my machine does not sweat at all.

If your using it for audio production and are using samples etc, the i7 and say 32-64GB RAM will be more than enough, and will keep you right for years to come.

However, as I don't know what you use your systems for, maybe this won't be the case.
 
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