hypetroodles
What are you going to use it for?
Well clearly evil needs more memory.
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.
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.
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.. gaaaahhhhhShow Image(http://emoticoner.com/files/emoticons/onion-head/oh-onion-head-emoticon.gif?1292862514)
is the ram specs the same (other than capacity of course) ?
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.. gaaaahhhhhShow Image(http://emoticoner.com/files/emoticons/onion-head/oh-onion-head-emoticon.gif?1292862514)
Then the question becomes "which is cheaper?"
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.