What CPU(s) do you use for your Workstation?

[cbn]

What CPU(s) do you use for your Workstation?

For Desktop, is it a 1P or 2P set-up?

 

[Essence_of_War]

At work, an E8400, a first gen hex core i7, and a i5 4590.

At home, an i7 3770k and occasionally my wife's 2P, octocore Mac Pro.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Now I'm curious about what Essence_of_War does for work or where he works. I'm fine if the response is "None-ya's-business!" But that's quite a range of hardware, there! I had a single computer for my regular "day" job -- it must have been an early Pentium. For my "night" job -- teaching technology and programming -- the machines at home (no office at school, ya see) were a 486, a Pentium "Overdrive" rig, and a Pentium II. Be-cause! That was the 1990s!

Today, my workstations are both Sandy Bridge K systems. [My server is an old Q6600 system, but you didn't ask.] I have to maintain and service two fam-damn-ily machines upstairs: an LGA-775 E6700 and an Ivy Bridge 3570K.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Work : 2x Xeon X5650 (HP Z600), i5-4300M (ThinkPad T540p)
Home : see sig ↴↴↴ (+ 2500K @ 4.6GHz, 2x Xeon X5675)

 

[rchunter]

Xeon x5660 @ 4.2ghz.
Haswell e3-1246v3

 

[Hmoobphajej]

Work: Core i7 4770 ( HP 800 G1 )
Home: Core i7 4770k

 

[VirtualLarry]

My main desktop, G3258 (rocking the dual-core, yeaaaah!), and a laptop, an N2830 (Atom! Budget laptop buyers represent!).

 

[Nothingness]

At work, E5-2650 v2 for my workstation (plus some large [>10k cores] company clusters). At home, i7-4770K.

 

[ZGR]

i7-3720qm. Thing is a VM monster!

 

[TeknoBug]

For a serious workstation for doing sensitive documents and such, something with Intel vPro and IPT instructions, usually a non-K i5 or i7 and select i3's has them- hence my i5 3550. Oh and of course direct I/O virtualization (VT-d).

Otherwise my i7 3770K served me well for gaming and other stuff.

 

[NTMBK]

A pair of Xeon E5-2643. Getting a bit long in the tooth though.

 

[zir_blazer]

Xeon E3-1245V3.

Since there isn't a big price difference between entry level Workstation parts and consumer ones, I would say that NOT going for Workstation class if the budget allows and you're not intending to overclock, is a rather lame idea. Bring prosumer to the masses.

 

[MaxPower83]

at work : P4 2,8 Ghz , 2 GB RAM , Win xp sp3 (originally it had only 1 gb , i upgraded it with a stick of DDR1 i had lying at home.) Thanks God i use it only for sending e-mails.

at home : i5 3550 , 8 gb Ram, Crucial ssd 64 gb, Radeon hd 7770, win 7 home.

 

[Fox5]

Core i3 4340. 16GB DDR3, Intel 180GB SSD boot drive, 4TB Seagate hard drive, 120GB Samsung 850Evo as an ssd cache + ready start drive + virtual memory drive.

I used to use a 6 core Phenom II running with ECC memory, but I decided to degrade in size and power consumption to mini-itx. The system runs faster, fits easily under my desk, and does pretty much everything I used to do but faster and with lower noise. Sometimes I run into a memory limit on VMs only having 16GB of ram, but it's generally workable.

Also, I'm using Intel's ssd cache with a Samsung 850 Evo drive and it really makes HDD performance fly, which makes a huge difference for usability in general.
In Crystal DiskMark using Intel's ssd cache, my harddrive does >500MB/s R/W Q32T1 sequential, > 200MB/s R/W 4kQ32T1, >400MB/s sequential, and ~30MB/s / 50MB/s R/W for 4k random.

 

[justanotherboy]

At work: 2 X Xeon E5-2697 v2
Core i7-4700MQ

At home: Core i7-4790K
Core i5-3437U

 

[DeathReborn]

Home PC: 4770K @4.8GHz
Home Workstation: 2x Xeon E5-2667 v2
Work Laptop: i7 4810MQ (Dell Precision M2800)

 

[saratoga172]

Work: E5-2680 v2 (I use VDI at work), any computer I feel like using at the moment to connect to my virtual machine. Right now an i7 17inch MBP
Home: i7-5820k

 

[Arachnotronic]

5960x.

 

[cbn]

Bump for more responses (Hopefully).

 

[Micrornd]

2 x E5-2696 v2

 

[Lil'John]

Current is a 3930k.

Christmas gift to myself will be two E5-2695 v3(or 4 if it is out) I probably wouldn't go this route if I didn't get a good discount on the CPUs ()

Primary use is software development with upcoming emphasis on highly threaded.

 

[jpiniero]

The desktop at work is a Sandy Bridge QC. No SSD. The funny thing is that it's on a lease; and while I could get a lease refresh I don't care. Don't want to bother having to reinstall everything.

 

[Walternowi]

Work: Xeon L5639
Home: Xeon E5-1650 v2

 

[Charmonium]

I have several servers for a DC project. The most advanced is an E5-2695v3.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

The PC on my desk at work is an i7-3770.

Sitting at my desk at home, I can see two i5 PCs, a server with a G3250 Pentium, and my laptop has an i7.