I don't know how I ended up on this page : http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/deals?~ck=mn#!dlpgid=poweredge-tower-server-deals Probably because I am always looking for deals. That is what prompted my question about i3/i5/i7 vs Intel Xeon. I was looking at the PowerEdge T110 II Tower Server which is selling for $369.00. I was thinking it would be nice to upgrade this to 16GB and add a couple HD's to it (that I can get off new egg) and configure as RAID 1. Add a couple inexpensive video cards and potentially drive 4 flat screens. The CPU Intel Xeon E3-1230 v2 is smoken' hot!! 4 cores and 8 threads. And the benchmark is plenty good. http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+E3-1230+V2+%40+3.30GHz This might only cost $1300 or $1400 for everything. Or use it to build a very nice web server. On 2015-10-09 21:58, Kevin Fries wrote: > I7 is quad core, Xeon can go to 18 core and have dual procs. We are > currently considering Power Edge blades with 2x14 cores to build > private cloud. > > Kevin > On Oct 9, 2015 2:10 PM, "Keith Smith" > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I was browsing Dell's PowerEdge servers and noticed they use the >> Intel Xeon. I was wondering what might be the advantage of a Intel >> Xeon vs. an i3/i5/i7 ? >> >> Any thoughts? >> >> -- >> Keith Smith >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss [1] > > > Links: > ------ > [1] http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Keith Smith --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss