Business Desktops...E5500 vs E7500?

[alkemyst]

How much of an impact will going with an E5500 have in the future?

We run just windows 7, office 2010 and citrix applications. Not a lot of heavy weight stuff.

We are upgrading from P4's in the 2.2-2.8 range.

The price difference is over $100 per desktop.

Edit: the main differences I see is the E7500 has SSE4 and 1066 MHz bus vs the 800MHz in the E5500.

There is also another 1MB L3 cache and .13GHz faster clock on the E7500.

 

[Emulex]

take the $100 buy an ssd. Probably get 64-80gb in a few months for that much money. the E5500 would annihilate the hard drive+E7500 solution by a mile.

heck a core 2 celeron would smoke a hard drive+core2quad since most people are spinning cores waiting for disk i/o 🙂

That's what i do. celeron e1500 + ssd > E8500+7200rpm drive all day long doing what business folks mostly do.

 

[jihe]

not worth the 100 dollar price difference

How much of an impact will going with an E5500 have in the future?

We run just windows 7, office 2010 and citrix applications. Not a lot of heavy weight stuff.

We are upgrading from P4's in the 2.2-2.8 range.

The price difference is over $100 per desktop.

Edit: the main differences I see is the E7500 has SSE4 and 1066 MHz bus vs the 800MHz in the E5500.

There is also another 1MB L3 cache and .13GHz faster clock on the E7500.

 

[alkemyst]

take the $100 buy an ssd. Probably get 64-80gb in a few months for that much money. the E5500 would annihilate the hard drive+E7500 solution by a mile.

heck a core 2 celeron would smoke a hard drive+core2quad since most people are spinning cores waiting for disk i/o 🙂

That's what i do. celeron e1500 + ssd > E8500+7200rpm drive all day long doing what business folks mostly do.

we don't use the desktop drives much. Everything is on Citrix. In the future I could see upgrading to SSD's but until they bundle the basic office desktop at $300-500 with them, we won't be.