Speed: Xeon2.8 fsb533 vs. C2D2.13 fsb800 ?

[Dan]

Hello people
Which will be faster for working with photoshop, CAD, movie editing and so
on:

HP workstation xw6000 with dual Xeon2.8 GHz processors with 533MHz fsb
(quite old computer)
or a new
HP dc5700 with one C2D 2.13 GHz procesor with 800MHz fsb ??

/Dan

 

[Paul]

Hello people
Which will be faster for working with photoshop, CAD, movie editing and so
on:

HP workstation xw6000 with dual Xeon2.8 GHz processors with 533MHz fsb
(quite old computer)
or a new
HP dc5700 with one C2D 2.13 GHz procesor with 800MHz fsb ??

/Dan

I'd take the C2D.

The instructions per clock are more than 1.5x the older architecture
in the Xeon. So the 2.13Ghz clock is like 3.2GHz in a P4 era
processor.

Also, you may have upgrade options with the more modern machine.
Picking this page at random, for DC5700, it'll accept an E6700.
Going with a small form factor, does mean accepting compromises,
when trying to upgrade later. Better to get a "roomy box" you
can stick more junk in You get a more powerful power supply
by doing that as well. This thing has a 240W power supply. The
E6700 is a 65W processor, which is why it is offered as an
upgrade option on a machine with a 240W power supply.

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/12454-12454-64287-321860-3328896-3249646.html

If you like the idea of the E6700, buy it now before they
disappear completely. It looks like they're discontinued,
so now you'll have to "turn over a few rocks" to find one.
Just unplug the 2.13GHz processor, and install this 2.66Ghz one.

http://www.serversdirect.com/product.asp?pf_id=CP1115

If you're curious, you can find some benchmarks here. Virtually
all of these benchmarks, attempt to use both cores, so the results
are skewed towards multi-core processors. I think only the ITunes
benchmark is a single execution thread. Comparing the Pentium D 805
in this chart (at 2.66Ghz), is as close as I can get to emulating
your dual Xeon 2.8GHz choice.

http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu_2007.html

There are probably some small business machines of more
recent vintage than the dc5700, and you may be able to
get a faster processor than either of the options above.
There are Core2 processors at 3GHz readily available now.

Paul

 

[Farad'n]

Hello people
Which will be faster for working with photoshop, CAD, movie editing and so
on:

HP workstation xw6000 with dual Xeon2.8 GHz processors with 533MHz fsb
(quite old computer)
or a new
HP dc5700 with one C2D 2.13 GHz procesor with 800MHz fsb ??

/Dan

Why ask here? If you want to compare processor speeds, search on the
web or get computer magazines that do the comparisons. You question
really does not involve the OS and as such is out of place here.

Ask elsewhere

 

[Dan]

Hello Farad´n
Since I will be running XP on the box I thought windowsxp.hardware might be
a good place to start, and as you can see Paul gave me an excellent answer
instead of whining about posting in the wrong forum, thanks Paul !

/D