Xeon or P4

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Does anyone know about the performance difference between Intel Xeon and P4?

I'm about to purchase a new computer and need as much calculation power as I
can get. I do audio editing in ProTools all day long.
I would like to see which one is better for such tasks.

Thanks.

IS
 
Xeon is aimed at the server/commercial market.. P4 is more available for the
home/hobby user..

You should be able to build a good system around a P4 that will be more than
able for your task..
 
If you want the best bang for the buck for computational power you should
look at the AMD64.

Bobby
 
But Intel is still not is the common 64 bit processors. Itanium is too
pricey for the home users.
 
That's good for your planet, but on this Planet the AMD64 is much more
powerful than P4 or XEON chips. Notice I said AMD64 and not AMD 32 bit.

Bobby
 
Give us a break. The OP wants to do audio calculations not play
Doom 3

NoNoBadDog! wrote:
| If you want the best bang for the buck for computational power you
| should look at the AMD64.
|
| Bobby
|
| || Does anyone know about the performance difference between Intel Xeon
|| and P4?
||
|| I'm about to purchase a new computer and need as much calculation
|| power as I can get. I do audio editing in ProTools all day long.
|| I would like to see which one is better for such tasks.
||
|| Thanks.
||
|| IS
 
NoNoBadDog! said:
That's good for your planet, but on this Planet the AMD64 is much more
powerful than P4 or XEON chips. Notice I said AMD64 and not AMD 32 bit.

Bobby
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Ask the ProTools folks. They are the only ones that have
a definitive answer to this. If there's code in the app that is
optimized for one type of instruction set or another, only they will
know.

All you're gonna get here is more of the same "my dog's better
than your dog" crap from users who have never even heard
of ProTools...
 
Get a life; If you think that the AMD64 (and to a lesser degree Intel
EM64T) is only good for playing games, you are sadly mistaken. In data
intensive applications, it will outperform the Intel P4 every time. Do a
little research before making yourself look like an idiot.

Bobby
 
you do not know what you are talking about

go to toms hardware and examine the benchmarks

the amd 64 fx series is slightly quicker in some benchmarks (its also
fecking expensive)...

the p4 (including some of the cheaper p4's) is slightly faster in others
 
Does anyone know about the performance difference between Intel Xeon and P4?

I'm about to purchase a new computer and need as much calculation power as I
can get. I do audio editing in ProTools all day long.
I would like to see which one is better for such tasks.

Thanks.

IS
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If you are willing to spend that much money on Xeons, why not go ahead
and do the Dual AMD Opteron route. A couple of 248's or 250's with a
motherboard that will do NUMA would be be very nice for you...

If you want an overpriced toaster oven, then by all means buy a P4.
Just make sure you get good cooling. Those new chips are hot and power
hungry.
 
the AMD chips are very good a Xeon chip with a quality motherboard and large
Cache will work best.
A Dell WS with dual 3.6 GHZ 2 MB Cache Xeon processors 4 GB of RAM and a 512
mb video card along with 4 drives in a SATA RAID 0 configuration comes out
to a cool 7Gs without a monitor

Wayne
 
If you are willing to spend that much money on Xeons, why not go ahead
and do the Dual AMD Opteron route. A couple of 248's or 250's with a
motherboard that will do NUMA would be be very nice for you...

If you want an overpriced toaster oven, then by all means buy a P4.
Just make sure you get good cooling. Those new chips are hot and power
hungry.
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You can purchase the ASUS PC-DL Deluxe with 2 Xeon 2.8ghz chips for about
$800, and it's a good fast board.

PC-DL Deluxe (Dual Xeon) $200
Xeon 2.8ghz 1m/533 $300 each

Tyan Tiger K8W (Dual Opteron) $200
Opteron 240 (1.4ghz) Server CPU $241

There have been many reports of high-failure rates of Dual Opteron based
workstations (just search for "Motherboard Dual Opteron" on google).

I've got about 30 of the ASUS PC-DL systems running in the field as web
and SQL servers and have not had a single failure from them. They don't
require the dual channel memory and have served me well, I'm considering
making them my standard workstation motherboard too.
 
Leythos said:
You can purchase the ASUS PC-DL Deluxe with 2 Xeon 2.8ghz chips for about
$800, and it's a good fast board.

PC-DL Deluxe (Dual Xeon) $200
Xeon 2.8ghz 1m/533 $300 each

Tyan Tiger K8W (Dual Opteron) $200
Opteron 240 (1.4ghz) Server CPU $241

There have been many reports of high-failure rates of Dual Opteron based
workstations (just search for "Motherboard Dual Opteron" on google).

I've got about 30 of the ASUS PC-DL systems running in the field as web
and SQL servers and have not had a single failure from them. They don't
require the dual channel memory and have served me well, I'm considering
making them my standard workstation motherboard too.
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Second this setup as well.

I use my PC-DL to run three concurrent VirtualDub sessions frameserving
to three instances of TMPgenc and can still get other work done at the same
time
as well. Almost a year old now and not one hardware barf.
 
You can purchase the ASUS PC-DL Deluxe with 2 Xeon 2.8ghz chips for about
$800, and it's a good fast board.

PC-DL Deluxe (Dual Xeon) $200
Xeon 2.8ghz 1m/533 $300 each

Tyan Tiger K8W (Dual Opteron) $200
Opteron 240 (1.4ghz) Server CPU $241

There have been many reports of high-failure rates of Dual Opteron based
workstations (just search for "Motherboard Dual Opteron" on google).

I've got about 30 of the ASUS PC-DL systems running in the field as web
and SQL servers and have not had a single failure from them. They don't
require the dual channel memory and have served me well, I'm considering
making them my standard workstation motherboard too.
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It also depends on which Opteron motherboard you go with as well. I
have been very happy with my MSI K8t Master2 FAR but had numerous
issues with a Tiger K8w. Memory compatibility is not as flexible from
what i have seen with Opterons though if you stick with Registered ECC
DDR chips with Samsung or Infineon labels you are okay. If you wish
to go the Opteron route, look at some of the new NForce 4 boards
coming out for top performance.

FYI. Dual Opteron 240's or 242's will spank those 2.8 xeons in
practically every benchmark you throw at them. The on-die memory
controller in AMD64 chips is very nice

My Specs:
MSi K8T Master2 Far
4x512 PC2700 Infineon DDR REG ECC Memory
1 XFX Geforce 6600GT Video
Soundblaster Audigy2 ZS
2 Opteron 242 processors
2x80 WD SATA HD
1x300 Maxtor IDE HD
Liteon 52x CDrw/DVD Combo drive
Liteon DualLayer DVD +/-RW Drive
Ultra 500watt Modular PSU
4x80 Antec Blue Case Fans
 
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