Need help choosing a Xeon processor

I am in the process of building a high performance workstation for 3d modeling/animation, fluid simulation, and rendering. My choice of processors are; the E5520, L5520, or E5530.

Now at first glance, you realize that the E5530 has a higher clock rate than both the L5520 or E5520. I did some research on benchmarks and i came across something interesting; i found a website that benchmarked some of the recent xeon processors and it had some interesting results.

Supposedly, the L5520 outperformed the E5530 in just about every test except for maybe 1 or so. The review can be found here,
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/com [...] 500-series

Anyway, what do you think? Should i shelve out on two L5520s? will the E5520 give me similar performance to the L5520s? and if not, than what makes the two of them different? Or should I just go with the higher clock speed of the E5530 cpu? I tried to find as much info as possible but didnt have much luck. Please help me out.


Caleb

the L5520 has the lowest power consumption but everything else is the same with the three procs

if i were u i would go with the E5530 for that little boost in clockspeed

but if power is an issue iwould go for the L5520

Actually the difference in Clockspeed is negligible so it is up to u between the L5520 or the E5530

really i couldn't see the Benches in ur link


but it might be cuz the L has better arch in it.

how does that work?

how does power depend on clockspeed?

oh i see
but how does heat consumption zero in on single threadapps?

oh ok so the best choice would be the L5220 here ok

L5520 it is! the L5520 and E5540 are close in price, so why not pay a tad bit more as long as it isnt $100 more.

What are you saying? That i should do with the E5530? From benchmarks, the L5520 outperforms the E5530 in just about every bench.

Please elaborate.

the L5220 is the best, this guy is just confusing

sweet^

Heya

Im just making workstation for myself. If u want to go 1 CPU on mobo go for I7 and OC it. No point using single CPU with xeons. But if you go for DUal Quad COre then u better get 2x/4x+ SSD fastest HDD in raid coz believe me Real Flow/other fluid simulation softs will need lot of speed from HDD to write/read data... so that dual xeon can work at 100%, also you need lots of HDD space for complex scenes... (lsat time I did fluid animation 1 Frame was 1.2 gb heavy )

and go fastets 3.3 ghz Xeon if money doesent matter In dual setup they will rox

^+1

My old "workstation" which was also my very first computer build was a Core 2 duo E6400 (2.13 ghz), 2 gigs of ddr2 5400 ram, with a 320 gig hdd and a Quadro fx 1400 graphics card using an Intel d975xbx gaming mobo.

so far, what I have in he making is a Super Micro X8DA6 motherboard, coupled with two Xeon L5520 (2.26 ghz) processors, 24 gigs of DDR3 1066 ram, a Corsair P128 SSD, two SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 hard drives with a Raid 1 setup, a Nvidia Quadro fx 3800 graphics card, and a PC Power & Cooling T12W 1200W power supply, all wrapped up in a Coolermaster Cosmos 1000 case.

Its going to be a beauty once she is complete. However, I am thinking of waiting till the new generation "Fermi" quadro cards which are set to release in Q1 of 2010.

stick with the rig you are planning. It will be awesome.

HUmh...I'm googling from 2 months and OC 2xCPU is imposible atm.. I heard that ''some'' people menage to OC xeons using some soft but thats ''?????'' for me... Back to CG card.. from the old hardware you have I think you never had any hard scenes... or had and didnt go well...(duno) atm I got few works with 20-40K objects in scene and to be honest old 8800 gts is well... I dont have 30 fps in viewport but once I put all on layers its easy to work... dont put 700~$ in CG card just to get good viewpoer FPS... also using DX10 can speed up viewport work even tho is buggy better spend it on better CPU or other components... b

Btw I got Cosmo 1000 too Cant w8 to get cpus and test it out :] Sadly...it does not support SSE mobo factor (asus d18) but hey only 3 screw dont fit, that can be fix easily...

Btw what ram do you getting? I was looking on Kingston but 1333 mhz cost 1.5k £ LOL...

Supermicro is indeed superior to Asus for server motherboards.

Lol chiil people I'm not telling him to buy other rig or ill kill him lol.. just trying to figure out why he is taking what he is taking... I was chating with 3 CG directors b4 I chose my rig and none of them ever used QUATRO/Fire card, wana know why he want to use it lol... also what ram are you taking ? If u got cheap 1333 rec ecc ram share with us !

You really are clue-less, aren't you?

this OP is going to be screwed

well us should be

now go to ur room and get an avatar

yeah all i see is a image pic

I AM FINALLY A VETERAN, FEEL MY WISDOM

who?

I need to post an avatar, i have no idea what im going to use for one.