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Xeon quadcore is it worth it????

crazyDAJT

crazyDAJT

crazyDAJT

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sorry for probably being a bit of a noob

I'm looking at building a cad workstation (mainly using solidworks) for work, and then if it works build one for myself (yes i know I'm a workaholic), so stability is the key, but what is the difference between the [email protected] at £159.99 (ex vat) and the [email protected] at £249.99 (ex vat)

i know one is targeted at gaming and one is targeted at workstations, but why. Is it about power consumption and stability???

Is the cost really worth it if there is a difference, as its a work computer i will not be overclocking it.

Thanks
 
Hi,

To be honest in your situation the Q6600 would be fine, the Xeon processors are for servers usually and are said to be made from higher grade silicon and are said to be more reliable they are like AMD's Opteron processors. Because of this they can usually clock higher but in my experience they have not.

And even so the performance increase is not worth £100 in my eyes.
 
This is the confusing thing, all the cad workstations on the market use xeon processors, and i can come about £2K under them with what looks like an as good set up, so why do that do it??

although I'm not going to have my pc on 24/7 stability and reliability is important, as a days down time could potential cost us time a money.
 
Well i have used Opterons, P4's, Core2Duo and Xeon and i am back on my core 2 duo E6600 oc'd to 3.5Ghz and to be honest it has never gone down on me at all and i have it on pretty much all day every day.

I personally think Q6600 would do the trick it's not worth £100 extra for the xeon tbh
 
I wont be overclocking anyway, and if i was i would be doing it all the time, as I am a heavy CAD user, i work with very large assembly's and do a lot of analysis so i will always be running the CPU at high loads a lot of time.
 
Jokester said:
Both chips are identical other than the price, get the Q6600.
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That seams absolutely insane if they are the same, what justifies the extra cost, I suppose it must be the price you pay for a brand
 
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