Article Request: Best Workstation CPU

You'd probably be better off putting this in the requests section, down at the bottom of the main forum in the tom's hardware section.

without treading into Xeon/Opterons territory, either the Intel I7 980X or the AMD X6 1090T will be one of the best CPU's to put into a workstation. (for audio/video encoding)

Saw this on the front page and wanted to let you know that I have a story comparing the Xeon 5500s to the Xeon 5600s in the works, Meta. Stay tuned. Might be a couple more weeks before it's done.

Best,
Chris Angelini

ok will do

I'm sure as they are the most expensive   but would like to see an article with best in price range like the gaming articles.

There is not that big of a difference anymore between desktop/workstation rigs. Asus AMD desktop motherboards even work with ECC RAMs.

In fact, because of the difficulties associated with the NUMA arch, these days a multi-core in a single socket can pack quite a wallop in memory intensive applications when compared to a 2p system with multiple DIMM banks.

Years ago (LOL-it hasn't been that long) workstation cards required extended AGP-Pro slots with supplemental molex power connections. Not any more.

Motherboards with multiple PCIe Gen2 x16 slots are $100. Motherboards with quad PCIe Gen2 x16 slots are less than $150.

SATA 6Gb/s with RAID and USB3? Check.
Multiple 1394a and eSATA? Check.
Dual GLAN? (you get the point   )

mainly video and audio editing.

well an article for best desktop/workstation would be great

Yes article for desktop/workstation would be great . . . . . .

well depends on quantum of load. For single socket the intel xeon 3680. For dual socket intel w5680

Imo, I usually consider a "workstation" to be a PC that's using a 2P (or more) with a more than normal amount of RAM that will be running Maya, Inventor,etc.