Tough question

[tp4tissue]

Which one is better

4x X7460 cpu with 50gb ram

or

4x E7540 cpu  with 16gb ram


Hrrrm........  the 7460 has more ghz..   but the 7540 has hyperthreading..

[paicrai]

hypetroodles

[tp4tissue]

hypetroodles

Indeed, it's almost like 30-45% increase in performance in server oriented stuff..

[IvanIvanovich]

What are you going to use it for?

[tp4tissue]

What are you going to use it for?

Evil...

[IvanIvanovich]

Well clearly evil needs more memory.

[tp4tissue]

Well clearly evil needs more memory.

I mean.. there's 24 cores in either machines,  so I could do like, lots of stuff at the same time


I could do vpn, maybe a dedi CSgo server, once I get the game for $5,   maybe a nice cruncher for stata , sas.

[IvanIvanovich]

CPU wise they are pretty close really in performance in most scenarios. Hyperthreading won't do you a ton of good in most of your proposed use cases especially with that many cores already... but E7540 runs on qpi link which is faster and has a lower tdp and is newer so the motherboard may have better features? On the other hand the X7460 has more cache and is clocked higher, and comes with way more memory, so much more so you could run things on a ramdisk with little effort which could be nice.
Assuming they cost about the same, it comes down to the motherboard I suppose.

[tp4tissue]

CPU wise they are pretty close really in performance in most scenarios. Hyperthreading won't do you a ton of good in most of your proposed use cases especially with that many cores already... but E7540 runs on qpi link which is faster and has a lower tdp and is newer so the motherboard may have better features? On the other hand the X7460 has more cache and is clocked higher, and comes with way more memory, so much more so you could run things on a ramdisk with little effort which could be nice.
Assuming they cost about the same, it comes down to the motherboard I suppose.

Yea man.. that's why this is so tough.. LOLOL

[The Mad Professor]

Honestly? At this level of performance, any differences will be so negligible as to be completely irrelevant. It's like asking which is better: a car that goes 450mph with 72mpg or one that goes 451mph with 71mpg.

[tp4tissue]

Honestly? At this level of performance, any differences will be so negligible as to be completely irrelevant. It's like asking which is better: a car that goes 450mph with 72mpg or one that goes 451mph with 71mpg.

it's not irrelevant if I could only get 1 though..   gaaaahhhhh

[dorkvader]

is the ram specs the same (other than capacity of course) ?

[The Mad Professor]

Honestly? At this level of performance, any differences will be so negligible as to be completely irrelevant. It's like asking which is better: a car that goes 450mph with 72mpg or one that goes 451mph with 71mpg.

it's not irrelevant if I could only get 1 though..   gaaaahhhhh

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Then the question becomes "which is cheaper?"

[tp4tissue]

is the ram specs the same (other than capacity of course) ?

same specs other than capacity.

Honestly? At this level of performance, any differences will be so negligible as to be completely irrelevant. It's like asking which is better: a car that goes 450mph with 72mpg or one that goes 451mph with 71mpg.

it's not irrelevant if I could only get 1 though..   gaaaahhhhh

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Then the question becomes "which is cheaper?"

cost same.

[tp4tissue]

ok...

Which one.. would be better,  if I want to support say 5-20 people on VPN

but i don't want to use the whole machine.. there will be other stuff..

[IvanIvanovich]

I would get the one with more memory. Unless the motherboard is total **** all that memory is better value. With more memory you could run dozen virtual machines and have everything separated out no problem.

[paicrai]

flux capacitor

[tp4tissue]

I would get the one with more memory. Unless the motherboard is total **** all that memory is better value. With more memory you could run dozen virtual machines and have everything separated out no problem.

hmmm... good point...