I do video editing and 3d animation in 3ds max and Lightwave 3D. I am loooking to upgrade to a new workstation as we all know they are never fast enough. i'm going to do some incorrect math here, but with teh new Core architechure it's not that off.
QX6700=> 4x2.67Ghz => 10.6Ghz
2xXeon 5140 => 4x2.33Ghz =>9.3Ghz
From what I've read, the Xeons get the 2xFSB unless I'm wrong. These systems would cost about the same, but I'm curious about which would perform better. Once advantage of a Xeon system is that I can change to a faster quad core later. I'm not one to normally upgrade, I usually jsut build a new system.
There is also the new Quad Xeon's, but they clock in at 1.8ghz, and are super expensive,
but with this poor math example clocks in at 14.4Ghz. I know these numbers aren't right, but if you look at the ratios of the clocks on all the benchmarks you can pretty much do this to get a ball park. So what are the other advantages to the Xeon system.
I guess you could compare without cost at this point the 5150s to the QX6700 as each core in both processors is 2.66Ghz. Would the Xeon perform better? Then factoring in cost, the Xeon would also be much more expensive as it requires Fully Buffered Memory.
One advantage over with the Qx6700 for me, is if I decided to upgrade my current system, I would just need the proc and motherboard.
I really can't decide what is the best alternative. Or should I really just make myself wait til things are cheaper, but then the next architecture will be out ;-)!
Thanks.
QX6700=> 4x2.67Ghz => 10.6Ghz
2xXeon 5140 => 4x2.33Ghz =>9.3Ghz
From what I've read, the Xeons get the 2xFSB unless I'm wrong. These systems would cost about the same, but I'm curious about which would perform better. Once advantage of a Xeon system is that I can change to a faster quad core later. I'm not one to normally upgrade, I usually jsut build a new system.
There is also the new Quad Xeon's, but they clock in at 1.8ghz, and are super expensive,
but with this poor math example clocks in at 14.4Ghz. I know these numbers aren't right, but if you look at the ratios of the clocks on all the benchmarks you can pretty much do this to get a ball park. So what are the other advantages to the Xeon system.
I guess you could compare without cost at this point the 5150s to the QX6700 as each core in both processors is 2.66Ghz. Would the Xeon perform better? Then factoring in cost, the Xeon would also be much more expensive as it requires Fully Buffered Memory.
One advantage over with the Qx6700 for me, is if I decided to upgrade my current system, I would just need the proc and motherboard.
I really can't decide what is the best alternative. Or should I really just make myself wait til things are cheaper, but then the next architecture will be out ;-)!
Thanks.
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