CPU/Mobo Dual Xeon E5520 2.26 Vs Core i7

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Hi,

guys i am in a big Dilemma i am going to buy a new system for professional
3d architectural Visualization and i am confused in these two new different
technology

First Thought

In my first thought i was thinking of buying a Core i7 920 2.66 ghz,8 Mb Cache and do that overclock till 4 or 4.2 with Liquid cooling Kit. that way i am able to get a decent rendering time for a Normal project.

Second Thought

After some time i get to know that Intel had launched a Xeon series called
5500 then i send my requirements to my computer guy and he send me the
price quote for dual xeon quad core E5520 system. The whole system price is almost same like core i7 system.

So What to Do now, i am in a big confusion. Please suggest some advice so that I should buy some thing in which i did not regret in future.

Also i am listing the hardware configuration for both systems so that you guys suggest me what to add or remove.

Xeon System Configuration

Intel 5520 2.26 ghz Xeon Quad Core ( 2 CPUS)
Intel Motherboard 5520 SC
Hard Disk 150 gb Raptor Western Digital 10000 RPM
Hard Disk 1 TB Western Digital 7200 Rpm
Dvd Rw Sata HP
Graphics card Nvidia Quadro FX 1800
Intel Chasis SC 5300 + 600 watts Psu
Ram 6 gb ddr3 ECC ram (2 gb x 3 ).

Core i7 System configuration

Motherboard Asus P6T Deluxe V2
Intel I7 920 2.66 ghz
Hard Disk 150 gb RAPTOR WD 10000 RPM
Hard Disk 1 TB Wd sata2 32 Mb Cache
Dvd Rw Sata HP
Graphics Card Nvidia GTs 295
Cabinet Coolermaster HAf 932
Psu 850 Real Pro Coolermaster
Tft 24 “ Benq G 2412 HD Full HD with HDMI Port
Ram 12 gb Corsair Dominator (2 x 6 gb kit)
Ups 1 Kva Luminous
Please Suggest,

Best,
Sagar Sharma
 
Go for the Core i7 system...........

U may use Corsair HX850W instead.

And no use of 12GBG, get 6GB DDR3 1600MHz CL6 or CL7 instead.

If u can spend on a RAPTOR + another 1TB, get a SSD instead and maybe 500GB.

For the graphics, I suggest wait for another week and grab Ati's HD5870 X2 as soon as it is released.
 
Sagar, I do not know about performance differences between these two but the company I worked DQ Entertainment for two years, all the systems had those dual xeons in it. For 3D animations, visualization, I guess its the way to go.

Others can chip in...
 
Go for the Xeon System as the main purpose of your system is 3d architectural Visualization.

2 CPU's will do your work better.
 
naveen58 said:
Go for the Xeon System as the main purpose of your system is 3d architectural Visualization.

2 CPU's will do your work better.
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True. Since lot of simulations are necessary, this is the ideal CPU.

Extensive use of Maya cloth simulation, explosions etc are simulated and needed parallel processing.:) So these aere used.

Infact DQ had at that time(2005) nearly 300 systems each with dual cpu's.

Each system costed then around 2.5 to 3 lakhs, that included calibrated monitor, Quadro fx 15008 gd RAm etc. Costly affair....
 
I would say it's a matter of bandwidth. If DDR3 memory, QPI, PCIe (thus data transfer in general) is your bottleneck, then you should go for the dual Xeon. If it's a matter of pure processing power, then maybe you should save money with Core i7.

In my case, I'm building a particular data processing system (big data acquisition -> transfer to host PC -> process by GP-GPU (CUDA). As CUDA is gonna do processing job and as my PC is mostly for testing the data acquistion and transfer part, I need to focus on transfer speed, to be sure that the bottleneck would be my acquistion system and not the PC.

In my case, I have chosen Xeon X5550 (less expensive CPU with 2 QPI @ 6.4GT/s) and the very big Supermicro motherboard X8DAH+, with a very rare dual IOH architecture (see BeHardware - News - March 31, 2009) ! In addition to 6 DDR3 1333 ECC registered memory to get the most of the 6 channels.

I've not begun testing but I guess this PC won't be my transfer rate bottleneck...
 
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