buy it, or not?

[WinnahX]

my dad is a manager for a company that is about to drop like 3500$ on a rig from dell that uses a 3.73ghz Xeon proc, 2x 1gb 677mhz ddr2 ram, a 200gb sata2 drive.. and that just about it.. so, i went over to ibuypower.com, and put together a new AM2-socket rig for 2600$. it had a fx-62 :D , 2gb of the ddr2 800mhz corsair ram, a 150 GB 10k rpm raptor drive, a sweet asus mobo, and some random video pci-e card (the computer isnt doing anything graphic-intensive, just VERY cpu-intensive, the old computer takes 2-3 days to finish it), a nzxt lexa case and should come with water cooling for the cpu (which would be useful), and oh yes, a 17 inch lcd monitor (dell's computer did not come with a monitor)

 

 

 

the rig from ibuypower shows that dell over-charges almost as much as alienware! lol. not really, the money is for if the computer breaks, and everyone is too dumb to figure it out, but that is still a LOT of money, and ibuypower does have a 3-year warranty...

 

 

 

:arrow: so, im almost sure, would an amd fx-62 beat a 3.73 Xeon?

 

AMD's chip uses 90nm process type, 2.8ghz, l1 cache= 128kb +128kb, l2 = 2 x 1mb

 

 

 

the Xeon uses 65nm process type, 3.73 ghz(duh), and a l2 cache of 2 x 2mb.

 

 

 

of corse, i couldn't find benchmarks comparing the two. :oops:

[Cruiser]

If it's for a buisness, there's a reason they're buying a Xeon box. They aren't going to be running a 7800GTX on that shiny PCI-e slot.

[Diminished2b]

The Xeon would be better, for sure.

[SwordKing]

Really, you're overpaying. A LOT.

 

If you want a good processor, get an AMD Athlon™ 64 Processor.[/b]

[WinnahX]

If it's for a buisness, there's a reason they're buying a Xeon box. They aren't going to be running a 7800GTX on that shiny PCI-e slot.

 

 

 

it doesnt't, and the xeon box also has a pci-e slot...

 

 

 

also the processors are just about priced the same.

[blade995]

You sure that dell box isn't a dual proccesor system? For that price it should be.

[WutangFlu]

Xeon would kill the AMD processor.

[Stuart_G]

Xeon processors are specifically designed for server environments while the FX-62 is not.

 

 

 

If you wanted to get an AMD chip of some sort, the Opteron range is what you should be looking for if you wanted an AMD server.

 

 

 

Normally i would recommend against Dell, but i can see some good reasons as to why it isn't that bad to go with them for this.

 

 

 

A) The computer will already be built and wont require fiddling around with parts and if you accidentally killed something while assembling the FX-62 rig, then your stuffed and have no one to blame but your self.

 

 

 

B) You will get a warranty on the whole thing, so if something [bleep]s up, Dell should replace it.

 

 

 

C) The specs on the Dell system are still better for a server environment than what you picked out. The Xeon chip is running on the 65nm process which means it requires less power and thus less heat output. It also has double the L2 cache than what the FX-62 chip does and its designed for a server environment.

 

 

 

So yes, in this case i would recommend to get the Dell system purely because it is designed for what your father wants it to do, it will perform better in a server environment than the FX-62 rig and it will be ready to run straight out of the box and if something goes wrong, you can blame Dell.