laszloadrian Posted May 21, 2008 Share Posted May 21, 2008 Which is more suitable for AutoCAD and 3dsMax9 workstation with 1 Intel Core quad9300 2.5 ghz 12mb L2 1333 or workstation with 2 dual core Intel Xeon 5130 2 ghz 4mb L2 1333 Operating system XP pro 32 bit I checked Tom'shardware CPU charts did not find the Xeons and I did not find charts with 1 vs 2 CPU. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted May 21, 2008 Share Posted May 21, 2008 The first one. Total cores are the same but the first has a higher per core clock speed, is a newer generation and I'm figuring is a lot cheaper, especially when you factor in that the motherboard and RAM for the second are more expensive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slinger Posted May 21, 2008 Share Posted May 21, 2008 Andrew is correct...set-up #1 would be the way to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antisthenes Posted May 21, 2008 Share Posted May 21, 2008 that is the way i went on my last system and am very happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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