- Feb 25, 2012
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I'm building a workstation with unbuffered ECC memory within the next few weeks and was debating on whether I should go with the 1155 platform and the new Ivy Bridge Xeons (Intel Xeon E3 1270 V2) or go with the 2011 platform and an Intel Xeon E5 2630. I will be using it primarily for multithreaded applications with support for up to 64gb memory, however, people using the software say that clock speed is somewhat important as well. So my question is essentially whether 16gb of DDR3 1600 memory with the Intel Xeon E3 1270V2(3.5ghz, 4 cores,8mb cache) will be faster ( or rather almost as fast as) the more expensive Intel Xeon E5 2630 (2.3ghz, 6 cores 15mb cache) with 24-32gb of DDR3 1333 memory. The software it will be used for will be Gaussian09 64bit for Linux. Thanks to anyone who can help or give advice on the matter
http://www.gaussian.com/index.htm
http://www.gaussian.com/index.htm