I know the Xeon processors have been around for a long time and are mostly used in servers but I am curious, why do people not use the xeon's in a high performance desktop? As far as I know about the best desktop processor out there now is the i7 line. The i7's and xeons are both quad-core processors, what is the main difference in these? I just…
I'm running WRF weather model. That's a ram intensive, highly parallel application.
I need to build a HPC cluster for that. I use 10GB infiniband interconnect.
WRF doesn't depends of core count, but on memory bandwidth.
That's why a core i7 3820 or 3930K performs better than high-grade xeons E5-2600 or E7
Seems like universities uses xeon…
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i5 vs. i7 processor dev laptop
Developer Notebook i5 or i7
I could not decide on which configuration below gives better performance for developers on a notebook(running VS.NET, SQL Server, no gaming);
(A) i5 540M + SSD (Intel) or (B) i7 720M + 7200 RPM HDD (Western Digital)
Since these two configurations(A,…
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I need to get a laptop for dev work ( mostly server side Java, NetBeans ) and wonder if anyone had a chance to use either the i5 or i7 based laptop?
Is the i7 an overkill? ... or will the i5 handle it just fine? I'm thinking something from the HP line running Ubuntu.
Thanks
I'm having an interesting problem with my recent Core i7 Digital Audio workstation build that I am curious to see if others have encountered. First, here are the specs on the machine.
ASUS P6TD Deluxe Intel X58 Socket LGA1366 MB
Intel Core i7-950 3.06Ghz 8M LGA1366 CPU
CORSAIR DOMINATOR 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
Western…
Which performs better for developers on a notebook(running VS.NET, SQL Server, no gaming);
(A) i5 540M + SSD (Intel) or (B) i7 720M + 7200 RPM HDD (Western Digital)
In short, I want to ask whether the performance difference between i5 540M and i7 720M can be compensated via using solid state drive instead of using a hard drive?
Thank…
Hi,
I'm recommending a laptop to a colleague, and the specific laptop he has chosen has the above CPU chips as options. Both chips have 2-cores/4-threads. The i7-620M is a 2.66 GHz (4MB Cache) while the i5-540M is a 2.53 GHz (3MB Cache)....both Arrandale architecture.
He is a .NET programmer working with SQL Server and Oracle, and…
Hi we bought a nice computer to use to solve optimization problems.
Intel i7-980X@3,33 GHz with 12 GB of Team Group 1600 MHz DDR3 RAM.
When we use Gurobi the computer uses all 12 cores at maximum in the beginning of the solve. However after a while (about 8 hrs) it all cores jump between 65 and 85%
When I solve the same models on…
Hi we bought a nice computer to use to solve optimization problems.
intel i7 X980@3,33 Mhz with 12 Gb of Team Group 1600 MHz ddr3 Ram.
When we use Gurobi The Computer uses all 12 cores at maximum in the beginning of the solve. However after a while (about 8 hrs) it all cores jump between 65 and 85%
When I solve the same models on…
Here is the output:
Coreinfo v3.05 - Dump information on system CPU and memory topology
Copyright (C) 2008-2012 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com
Note: Coreinfo must be executed on a system without a hypervisor running for
accurate results.
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
Intel64 Family 6 Model 58…
On my debian-linux system, with a core i7 920 , each time I resume after the command "pm-suspend" (suspend to RAM), mutlithreading capabilities almost disappear. More specifically, two distinct programs can use 2 distinct cores at full rate, but a single program is limited to only one core (for one instance of a multithreaded…
Is there any problem overclocking the Core i7 chip on an x58 mb with you have all 6 memory slots filled? I just heard somewhere that if you want to overclock you should stick to 3 modules? Is there any truth to this?
thanks,
Ncage
I could not decide on which configuration below gives better performance for developers on a notebook(running VS.NET, SQL Server, no gaming);
(A) i5 540M + SSD (Intel)
or
(B) i7 720M + 7200 RPM HDD (Western Digital)
Since these two configurations(A, B) costs nearly same $ for me, I would like to buy the fastest one for my…
Hi,
I downloaded the ubuntu version 10 from internet and tried to run the wbu.exe inside the image that I burnt into a CD. I am getting the following error during running it
My Details
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate; Processor :
Core Quad i7; RAM : 4GB; Graphics Card :
1GB nVidia
Any help is much appreciated.
…
I am wanting to build a really nice PC, price is not to important as I will buy pieces every week or whatever it takes until I get everything I need. I am not a gamer but I would like to watch video and have 3-4 monitors. I do a lot of programming and use a lot of big programs so I would like to go all out and get…
I bought a brand new HP notebook: HP Pavilion dv7-6b21em BeatsAudio edition. The notebook is about 2 months old and has pretty nasty overheating problem.
I mainly use it for development however i do play some games. The disturbing thing is that the computer is loud on pretty simple tasks.
Here are the specs:
…
Hi everyone,
I've got an overclocked system that seems to be misbehaving.
When trying to boot up from cold the system just hangs and nothing is output to the screen. Fans are on as they should but nothing happens to finish the boot. From here I have to switch it off then on again and the boot completes.
If I…
I am not sure which is better. Surely with processors you would think the 920 would be a higher version because 920 870.
What's bothering me is that the 870 seems to have a higher clock speed, so which one is the better processor?
One of the most important thing to me for a CPU is a good mix between speed and heat. For example five years ago I bought a Core 2 Duo 6300 (max TDP 65W): I put a big heatsink on the CPU, no fans (I do hate moving parts and noise) and it worked like a charm and very silently for five years (and it still work…
You may have already heard about the review done by the folks at PC Authority in Australia, where they had an i7 MacBook Pro that got up to 100 degrees Celsius during benchmarking. Here is the URL in case you have not read it.
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I have two systems I've just built. They both have i7 processors and Asus P8Z77 motherboards. When I run a simple processor loop benchmark that I wrote in Delphi some time back I get one machine showing nealry twice as fast as…
I just build myself a new system with a Intel I7 860 CPU. When loading it using a single threaded application like Super PI, CPU-Z shows 2.933Ghz as speed. Now I understood that the I7 goes into turbo boost mode up to 3.46GHz…