Calling All Intel Lovers

[Googer]

Originally posted by: sharkeeper
I like the LGA chips because you can carry them in your pocket for a week and wash them in your trousers and the damn thing will still work!

Cheers!

Oh, no you did not!

 

[mpmdpz]

He has a pretty tight budget. Can't go over $3000. I've read Intel is better at content creaton. He wants either a Xeon Processor or a Operton. He will go dual processor so he won't go abouve 3.2GHz Xeon of Operton 242.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: mpmdpz
He has a pretty tight budget. Can't go over $3000. I've read Intel is better at content creaton. He wants either a Xeon Processor or a Operton. He will go dual processor so he won't go abouve 3.2GHz Xeon of Operton 242.

What exactly is "content creation"?

 

[mpmdpz]

 

[mpmdpz]

Sorry about that blank post.

Content creation is when you compose programs, graphical items, audio...

Anything that involves the creation of a software.

 

[ribbon13]

Xeons do indeed have a slight advantage over Opterons in 'content creation' apps, but only the Nocona xeon's have 64-bit, and it's 64-bit is absolutely dismal compared to Opteron's.

Also, Xeon's still rely on the northbridge for memory, whereas the opterons have dual channel on die, so when the 'Troy' dual-cores appear, Intel will lose major ground unless they come out with another solution...

In the mean time, all this makes Opteron's much more future-resistant than the Xeons.

 

[mpmdpz]

Yeah. I heard that Intel will go Dual-Core and 64-bit on all their processors at the end of this year.

he won't need dual-cores but he will need the Nocona's 64-bit. Since he's getting two (I'm guessing 2.8GHz Xeon w/EM64T), he will have enough to last him a while.

I have no clue how much RAM he is getting at this moment. How much is needed to do content creation (I have too much RAM so I don't know the minimum)

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: mpmdpz
Sorry about that blank post.

Content creation is when you compose programs, graphical items, audio...

Anything that involves the creation of a software.

So just daily use?

 

[ribbon13]

Yeah... vague huh?

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: ribbon13
Yeah... vague huh?

Yeah. Sounds like some business term for sitting infront of a computer all day doing nothing.

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: ribbon13
Xeons do indeed have a slight advantage over Opterons in 'content creation' apps, but only the Nocona xeon's have 64-bit, and it's 64-bit is absolutely dismal compared to Opteron's.

Also, Xeon's still rely on the northbridge for memory, whereas the opterons have dual channel on die, so when the 'Troy' dual-cores appear, Intel will lose major ground unless they come out with another solution...

In the mean time, all this makes Opteron's much more future-resistant than the Xeons.

Intel has a chipset whose working name escapes me, but it'll have dual independent FSB's to cope with the needs of dual core Xeons.

 

[stevty2889]

I'd start with a gig of ram, and if the work he's doing is maxing that out, then up it to 2 gig later.