Xeon Vs. I5

[SwingFish]

I have a quick question regarding different CPU types,

 

I am a Trader NOT a gamer .. so Frame rates and stuff is kind of secondary, I just need to drive 3 Screens smoothly.

and of course run the trading software and OBS (for the streaming) 

 

i was offered a  XEON X5650  with a GTX950

and a CORE i5-3570 with a GTX1060 3G

 

the i5 is about 80 bucks more expensive. but since this is not a gaming thing .. what would you guys choose? (keep in mind the Streaming part)

 

some notes would be greatly apreciated.

 

cheers 

 

[Jurrunio]

Do they come with motherboards? Because good luck getting a well priced and conditioned X58 board for the 6 core Xeon.

[SwingFish]

4 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Do they come with motherboards? Because good luck getting a well priced and conditioned X58 board for the 6 core Xeon.

ah Yes they are complete builds .. but the details are vague at best 

 

• CPU INTEL Xeon X5650 2.66 GHz MAX 3.06 GHz ( 6 Core 12 Threads )
• Cooler Deep Cool X1
• MB X58 Socket 1366 DDR3
• RAM ECC DDR3 8G 
• VGA GTX950 2GB
• HDD 1TB
• COOLMAN ATX BIG FAN

 

and for the I5 

• CPU: CORE i5-3570
• GTX1060 3G
• RAM: 8GB DDR3 BUS 1600
• Power Supply: (FULL) DTECH PW008 600W
• Hard disk: 1000 GB (1TB)

 

[grimreeper132]

I don't know what hardware your software wants but the i5 is faster in single and quad core performance and slower in multi threaded workloads, and the 950 is much faster than the 1030 so I suggest getting a 950 either way (if possible) and for the CPU either the i5 if your workloads more single threaded or xeon if it's multithreaded (like OBS)

 

I do not know if and if your trading software can use more than 1 core

[SwingFish]

well, that is a pretty good question about multi-tread, the hardware recommendations are terrible on the Spotware Website.

and I know for a fact, that you just can't smoothly run the software on what they recommending.

 

the question about multithread was just answered like this:

 

whatever that means

 

[grimreeper132]

2 minutes ago, SwingFish said:

well, that is a pretty good question about multi-tread, the hardware recommendations are terrible on the Spotware Website.

and I know for a fact, that you just can't smoothly run the software on what they recommending.

 

the question about multithread was just answered like this:

 

whatever that means

 

from what that says to me is more cores the better (to a certain degree, so the xeon should be better, also you can use ECC with the xeon so that might be a small benefit for you)

[Jurrunio]

I have a sneaking suspicion that neither are as good as they seem. Xeon deal is much better, but don't expect it to be great.

[Fasauceome]

Streaming obs will like that 6 core Xeon much more than the quad core i5. Driving displays is child's play for a GPU so the 950 is sufficient.