replacement for dell t3400?

[imabadboy]

Quote from Bolimomo:

Isn't the Xeon W3503 @2.40GHz processor, passmark score only 1869, a little bit underweight in what today's dollar can buy?

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+W3503+@+2.40GHz

By comparison, an i7-2600 or i7-2600k are around 9000 to 10000 mark.

these cpu benches are specious. the 2600k best the 2600 by 12% when they have identical cpu specs and differ only through the inbedded graphics.

i7 2600k 50% better than an i7 950 ?? no way!!

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/287?vs=100


does passmark work for intel? maybe, passmark performance test and burn-in test ships with intel motherboards.

 

[Scataphagos]

Quote from Bolimomo:

Isn't the Xeon W3503 @2.40GHz processor, passmark score only 1869, a little bit underweight in what today's dollar can buy?

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+W3503+@+2.40GHz

By comparison, an i7-2600 or i7-2600k are around 9000 to 10000 mark.

Yes, it's a comparative donkey..... still, probably OK for most trading.

When people ask, I suggest nothing slower than the W3530 CPU.

Sometimes going "too cheap" just isn't a good idea.

Where paying $519 for that T3500 might make sense would be where you had your hands on a much faster [compatible, of course] CPU.... at the right price... you could swap out.

As a rule of thumb, I consider the proper cost of a workstation machine to be about $600 + CPU + RAM (when RAM was more costly).... and of course some of Dell's deals are MUCH better than that.