P4 or Dual Xeons.

Hi

http://www.tomshardware.com/motherboard/20030827/index.html

Excellent article. To be honest unless you have a big budget

P4 2.8 C
Asus P4C800 Deluxe
2x512 Corsair XMS3500 cl2
Crucial Radeon 9800 Pro
Soundblaster Live 5.1
1 WD Raptor SATA 18gb boot drive
2 x 120gb Maxtor SATA 8mb cache RAID 1
Antec TruBlue 480W PSU

All about £1300

..and a sexy case of your choice :)

Good luck

Charlie:  What kind of work will your workstation be doing?  

http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20030422/

This is great -  benchmark comparisons between Dual Xeons, Dual Opertons, Single P4's with HT, etc.

It's the most definitive benchmark comparison I've seen to date.

Ab.

The actual workstation benchmark part of that review starts here, fyi:  http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/20030422/opteron-23.html#3drendering

Best is check out intel website www.intel.com for benchmark results

Sunray

No . . .   not best.  Intel wouldn't be impartial at all.   they would, of course, try to steer somebody into more expensive product.  Best would be to stick with an impartial website.

My understanding of the question is to give an answer and nothing to do with partiality or impartiality.

All we need to give the person who asked the question an answer and I gave him an answer

Intel would give you the correct benchmarks and other information and it is going to be true.It is better to
see the results in the company where the product is made

 
Sunray

The problem with intels benchmarks (have you looked at them??) is they do not compare a Xeon to a P4 etc.  they compare xeon to Xeon, p4 to p4 etc., of various speeds and cache.

That's why I recommend a different site that's more impartial.

Intel would have you believe the only chip you can use for a workstation is a Xeon processor, which isn't true by any means.

IMO:
Servers = dual Xeon's
Everytthing else = P4C

Dual Xeon's works for High-End workstation apps such as 3DStudioMax, etc., if you really need that kind of power, as well as servers, but it's not really worth the cost considering the performance of today's high end P4's.

Charlieroker - You around?  More questions?  More input you want?

And don't forget the new stuff. Prescott is due out Q1 2004 in quantity, and then there's the Opteron and Athlon64 on the nForce3 chipset.

As ever, we are on the cusp of a new generation of cpu's, so if you can wait 3 months you'll have wider choice and you'll get todays cpu's at a discount.

Good Luck

Hmm...  Charlieroker:   Perhaps I'm confused, but why, when RAXMAN talked about servers (when your question was about workstations) did you award RAXMAN the points?  Regarding workstations he really didn't talk about anything we already said.

No offense, RAXMAN, I'm just confused.  Looks to me like your answer had little to do with the original question, re: workstations.

oops:  >>Regarding workstations he really didn't talk about anything we already said.

should read

Regarding workstations he really didn't talk about anything we HADN'T already said.

The answer was accepted by a very amusing work collague with whom I'm currently having..'issues' with his working practice.  

NOT that I want to offend RAXMAN either!

I don't want to cause too many more problems but  ALbertaBeef had answered with the bets URLs

Mr Beef please follow this link and collect points

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/20731839/For-AlbertaBeef.html

cheers CharlieRoker

lol, first time I've been called "Mr Beef", thx.