I need a way to ELI5 to my friends the diffrence between using a Xeon and an Core i7

[Pugs501]

ELI5 is Explain Like I'm Five

[SovietOnion]

Xeon=More cores but less powerful per core/more instruction sets (computer languages) supported... for multitasking 

i7= Decent amount of cores, but also lots of performance per core/ higher amount of possible performance per core... for performance

[DavidTheWin]

 

The Aston Martin DB9 is a Core i7 (take your pick, although the DB9 is more like the 5960x)

 

 

The Aston Martin DBR9 is a Xeon

[Lotus]

Say this:

 

"Xeon is only better if you are using software that can take advantage of it.

Otherwise i7 is better."

 

If he asks what kind of software, just say "If you have to ask, you're not using it."

[harrynowl]

Which Xeon? Xeons can go all the way from quad (maybe even dual) cores to 24 core (and beyond I think) monsters...

 

[SovietOnion]

 

The Aston Martin DB9 is a Core i7 (take your pick, although the DB9 is more like the 5960x)

 

 

 

The Aston Martin DBR9 is a Xeon

Omg that's great I need to send that quote to my brother

[sans3go]

The only benefit i see of xeons is access to ECC ram. 

 unless he is doing computational work xeons are never worth it.