Benefits of Dual Xeon workflow vs 1 CPU consumer "gaming"

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I mean..throughout the years it is known that for CAD, VFX, and Film Editing, most "ideal" machines are Dual Processor boards, mainly nice workstation from Dell, HP, IBM etc, or custom builds.

I know a little logic behind bandwidth, computing power, and what the application demands. First and foremost, I am not a gamer by any means. I mostly deal with media and graphics.

I have a question about total Dual Xeon motherboard computing power..

If one has TWO Xeon (identical) processors you are basically multiplying x2 of its power, correct? For example, aren't dual processors computing simultaneously at all time? Therefore, the ghz (speed), FSB, and GT/s are in unison, or rather the system has "double" efficiency in computing power vs a single non Xeon processor?

 
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Thats the kind of workload a dual Xeon system is made for. So some cores will work on your render, you work using other cores on another program. You can even dedicate only a certain amount of cores to certain activities.
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No it doesn't work like that.

Dual processors allow the workloads to scale over more cores (assuming the program can do that), so in simplest terms lets say you have an encoding program that can use every core and you have 4 cores, it maxes all 4 of them out. But now you get a second 4 core processor in there it takes that workload and scales it over 8 cores thereby halving the workload each core has to do, so it gets done twice as fast. Mind you this is an ultra simplified example but it shows how it works.

It only works for programs that can take advantage of it. Some folks think using a dual Xeon system to game would be a good idea, except no games can handle that second processor, in fact most games only use 2-4 cores tops, single core performance is far more important. This is why those decomissioned Xeon processors make bad gaming processors, because many times each core is not that fast, but their strength is scaling their compatible workloads over multiple cores.
 
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Hi Rogue Leader.

I mainly want to hop between After Effects and Photoshop simultaneously and possibly even Premiere Pro opened. I guess all of Adobe Suite programs...While I have one program rendering a composition I want to continue working in another Adobe program.
 
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Another question in computing vs an i7-990x extreme vs Xeon.

If I get two Intel Xeon E5620 Westmere 2.4 GHz 12MB processors running a total of 72gb system memory performance vs my current i7-990x 24gb system, would my workflow of Adobe app performance jump dramatically?
 
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I don't think it would. The 990x is 6 core vs the Xeon only 4, so it would be 8 cores with a dual processor setup, the cores are a decent amount slower than the 990x and with only 2 extra you'd really need to be maxing it out to see any benefit. Now the boatload of RAM in comparison helps as well, so that will make a difference with a lot running, but I can't say for sure you would be pleased with the results. I would consider some newer faster Xeons or ones with more cores to really make this upgrade worth it.
 
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Thank you very much Rogue Leader. =) I have been looking at new Xeon's at Newegg.
 
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