cores or clocks?

[Preston builds]

 am building a productivity build with a large budget and need to know whether i should go for a higher clocked 4 core i7, or a lower clocked 14 core xeon.

i do not care for gaming.

[Misinthe]

Go for the xeon if you're not going to be gaming on it.

[TheRandomness]

Lower clocked 14 core because in productivity, lots of cores will win.

[Matt_98]

3 minutes ago, Preston builds said:

 am building a productivity build with a large budget and need to know whether i should go for a higher clocked 4 core i7, or a lower clocked 14 core xeon.

i do not care for gaming.

 

a 14 core xeon would stomp on  the i7 (if it is a newer xeon)

[Preston builds]

2 minutes ago, Miguel552 said:

Go for the xeon if you're not going to be gaming on it.

okay

[Misinthe]

3 minutes ago, Preston builds said:

okay

What kind of productivity will you be doing on it? Most things get better performance from more cores and threads than speed. Games get more out of clock speeds because they're not optimized for more than 4 cores. But things like Premiere and Enterprise grade software is usually optimized for Xeon processors and Server grade components so they utilize all cores available and it does make a difference.

[Preston builds]

1 minute ago, Miguel552 said:

What kind of productivity will you be doing on it? Most things get better performance from more cores and threads than speed. Games get more out of clock speeds because they're not optimized for more than 4 cores. But things like Premiere and Enterprise grade software is usually optimized for Xeon processors and Server grade components so they utilize all cores available and it does make a difference.

more video editing and music production, i will be using 3 screens and running many many apps at the same time. i know that 14 cores will do better, but 1.6GHz is kind of slow. 

[Misinthe]

1 minute ago, Preston builds said:

more video editing and music production, i will be using 3 screens and running many many apps at the same time. i know that 14 cores will do better, but 1.6GHz is kind of slow. 

Yeah but for multitasking like that it's better to have 14 cores over 4 fast ones. The i7 core is twice as fast that the xeon's, so you could look at it like, the i7 has 8 xeon cores because it can do tasks twice as fast with 4 cores, but the xeon has 14 so you still have 6 more cores on the xeon.