i3/i5/i7 vs Intel Xeon

[Stephen Partington]

nice lil pocket server for sure.

On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Keith Smith <techlists at phpcoderusa.com>
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" <techlists at phpcoderusa.com>
>> 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?
>>>
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