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

so in a nutshell, its between getting a L5520 for lower power consumption, or the E5530 for higher speed.

Well my question is, how come on many of the benchmarks shown, thta the L5520 outperforms the E5530? i dont understand that? Can anyone shed a little light on that?


Caleb

I would say the reason why the lower clocked L5520 beats the E5530 is due to the fact that L5520 has 20 watts lower TDP, so it should turbo higher on single threaded workloads.

TDP is not power consumed, but heat produced.

The lower the tdp, the higher the i7 can turbo.

well the l5220 is more expensive, so i would say its a matter of budget verses work load.

Thank you all for you help, this machine is going to be killer!

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.

In order for me to make a choice, i need more in depth info. When you say " i would go for one that gives you more for less", you make it sound like i should go for the e5530 just because it is cheaper and has a high ghz ratio. Cost to me is not a matter right now, im looking for the best performance processor out of the two, and from what others have answered and benchmarks that have been shown, the L5520 is the one for me.

Thank you guys again for the help.

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

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So u makind single CPU workstation? Then go I7 it will own E5530 xeon lol... Find some hardcore mobo that can run 16/24 triple chanel ram and ure set to go... btw 128 GB SSD is a bad Idea for Graphics.... U gona fill it up b4 you know. Better make raid0/1 with 4-10 Hdd and external backup....

Btw I almost finish building my rig...still w8 for the cpu's, we can benchamr one time and see how dual xeon would work comparing to i7, if you go for i7.

Hey

Why are you going for Quatro CG card? I've never see any benefits from this card, meybe somewhere at uni lvl where they calculate physic etc etc but so far max/maya etc is only cpu based if im not wrong...

BTW ur mobo cost 500 dola isnt Asus Z8PE-D18 better?

The asus is nice, but from what I have read about workstation/server motherboards, Supermicro is much more reliable and superior. If you are going for a gaming computer, than an Asus motherboard would be a better choice over a supermicro, since Asus motherboard allow for overclocking and supermicro does not.


Maya, 3ds max, and many 3d modeling and animation programs rely on the graphics card for the viewport and texture processing, etc. Rendering and simulation (depending on what software you are using) rely on CPU. Some programs and rendering packages are starting to make the switch to GPU rendering and processing.


Caleb

again

STICK WITH WHAT WE PLANNED FOR YOU

if not you will end up getting ripped off

Kingston is Cheeper in US

kingston w/ a good OC'd processor and a good NVIDIA workstation car will do good

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 !

SSE is another name for EATX, which the Cosmos 1000 does support. I would not of bought the Cosmos if it was not able to support the mobo platform planning on using.

Im looking at getting 1066 mhz ram, that is what is recommended for the Xeon L5520 cpus. If it was a higher end CPU, then 1333 would be the choice.

This is the ram i am looking at purchasing.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820139073

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

this OP is going to be screwed

we already helped the guy

well us should be

now go to ur room and get an avatar

if u don't get an avatar soon u won't be the forum pro anymore