lower power consumption for any recent i7.much smaller manufacturing process, 14nm vs 32nm for the Xeon, leading to a much.Of course, there are still some advantages to the i7: 12 MB 元 cache for the Xeon vs only 8MB for the i7.L2 cache is 2MB on the Xeon vs 1MB only on the i7.you have 12 threads on the Xeon vs 8 only for the i7.You can compare for example the Xeon w3690 (2011) with the i7 6700k (2015), and you will find that: All in all, for an i7 of the same generation as a Xeon, you’ll be faster in single core operations and significantly faster in parallel ones. And more importantly, they are also capable of hyper-threading. They come with at least 4 cores and have a lot more cache than their i- little brothers. Xeon’s are not consumer grade chips, they are their enterprise equivalents. The Xeon part was the most attractive piece of hardware when I started looking at HP Z400. a Xeon processor with integrated cooling.2 bays for hard drives, and 3 bays for other peripherals (5.25 inches).A motherboard with many, many ports (both at the back and front).A heavy (it won’t move!), very sturdy tower, well designed.So, what do you get with a HP Z400 that’s worth considering? Well, there are a bunch of different configurations out there for sale, but what’s basically not changing is the following: No surprise since HP is one of the worldwide PC leading manufacturers, pushing high volumes in many markets. The HP Z400 line, used mainly by some corporations for various purposes (design, video edition, rendering, etc…) is progressively being replaced by newer models and there’s now a bunch of them available for very, very reasonable prices in about every major location. Recently I was in the business of replacing one of my machines at home (all running Linux by the way), and while I had initially considered simply replacing parts at first, I became aware through various channels of the availability of good and cheap Xeon HP workstations on the market these days.

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