Saturday, March 12, 2011

Core i7 950 vs 2* Xeon 5630 for desktop usage

Hi all,

I want to buy a computer to use as desktop to run very heavy computational jobs. I want to work in both Linux unbutu and windows 7. I am going to use LAMMPS software in Linux environment which is capable of using as much as available core. Two different configs were recommended

1- Core i7950 and ASUS P6T
2- 2*Xeon 6530 (two 6530 processors) and super micro X8 DTLi

I know that prices are highly different but I have following questions

* Is xeon cpu capable of being used as desktop and is compatible with windows 7 and linux
* which one of the above configurations would work faster (for my usage)


any help, highly appreciated.

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