nice lil pocket server for sure. On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Keith Smith wrote: > > 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 > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen