Intel CPU question
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@wrx7m said in Intel CPU question:
@jmoore said in Intel CPU question:
@reid-cooper said in Intel CPU question:
Even an i5 is typically overkill today. What kind of workloads will these run?
I totally agree. Bottlenecks are hardly ever the cpu, they are almost always disk and memory. I have been going round and round with my management on this. They buy I7's but a mix of 5400/7200 hard drives. The i5 would be just fine for general use.
I have been buying SSDs, for users, exclusively, for about 6 months and it is by far the most noticeable improvement. Period.
It's the one big leap we've had in the past fifteen years.
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@wrx7m said in Intel CPU question:
@jmoore said in Intel CPU question:
@reid-cooper said in Intel CPU question:
Even an i5 is typically overkill today. What kind of workloads will these run?
I totally agree. Bottlenecks are hardly ever the cpu, they are almost always disk and memory. I have been going round and round with my management on this. They buy I7's but a mix of 5400/7200 hard drives. The i5 would be just fine for general use.
I have been buying SSDs, for users, exclusively, for about 6 months and it is by far the most noticeable improvement. Period.
I have personally been using SSDs for several years after the amazement of the massive performance increase. Nothing has improved performance so dramatically in the past 15+ years like SSDs.
Yep your absolutely right
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I must be on seven years of SSD now. I could never go back.
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I've spoiled myself with 16G of RAM and SSDs. I could never go back either.
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IMO, an i-5 is fine for an office plodder and an i-7 is hard to justify.
Now with Coffee Lake dragging i-3 up to a quad core, that's where my recommendations for new PC's is going. (next year some time).@reid-cooper said in Intel CPU question:
8GB, i5, SSD... tends to do the trick.
^ that's what we're running and no complaints.
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i7 has higher clock speeds, larger cache, and Hyper-Threading. Unless your applications can use Hyper-Threading there's no reason to consider i7
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@jackcpickup said in Intel CPU question:
i7 has higher clock speeds, larger cache, and Hyper-Threading. Unless your applications can use Hyper-Threading there's no reason to consider i7
i5 has hyperthreading, doesn't it?
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@scottalanmiller said in Intel CPU question:
@jackcpickup said in Intel CPU question:
i7 has higher clock speeds, larger cache, and Hyper-Threading. Unless your applications can use Hyper-Threading there's no reason to consider i7
i5 has hyperthreading, doesn't it?
Nope. i3 and i7 do. That's why i5 are so popular for gamers, games mostly don't utilise it
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@jackcpickup said in Intel CPU question:
@scottalanmiller said in Intel CPU question:
@jackcpickup said in Intel CPU question:
i7 has higher clock speeds, larger cache, and Hyper-Threading. Unless your applications can use Hyper-Threading there's no reason to consider i7
i5 has hyperthreading, doesn't it?
Nope. i3 and i7 do. That's why i5 are so popular for gamers, games mostly don't utilise it
Interesting, never realized that.
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I mean I knew that games couldn't use it, I meant about HT in the i5.
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Get a different machine for the CAD user, he'll be taxing CPU and GPU heavily. Get him Xeon workstation if you can, ideally something that's certified by CAD vendor. You'd be surprised how quickly they are to blame non-certified hardware if there are any issues with their software.
