Xeon X3430 or i7-2600 for chess?

[kaissa]

Hello to all,

My choices are reduced to the above processors for a computer at work. I am leaning towards Xeon but would like to know which one is better suited for chess only.

RAM size is same.

Regards,

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

Xeon of course....
Dr.D

[Mithu]

Looking at this page http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu ... 40+2.40GHz I thought the i72600 and i72600K are way above Xeon in terms of benchmarks.
Correct me if I am wrong please.

[Sedat Canbaz]

Personally,if i start to build a very fast PC,then my choice will be for i7 3930k

Or if you are looking for more reasonable price and fast machine,then i7 2600k or AMD Phenom II X6 1100T can be another alternative

About Xeon X3430,no much information about its overclocking capacity and chess benchmark values

Exception this one:

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Hardware-Processor        Speed      Cores    kN/s
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Intel Core i7 3930k     @ 4.80 GHz     6      20356
Intel Core i7 2600K     @ 5.30 GHz     4      15970
AMD Phenom II X6 1100T  @ 4.20 GHz     6      14484
Intel Xeon X3430          2.40 GHz     4       7169

For more Fritz Benchmark results:
http://www.sedatcanbaz.com/chess/fritz- ... enchmarks/

Best Regards,
Sedat

[kaissa]

Thanks to all of you for your replies.

I am limited to these processors only. It will be a small server for the office where 4-5 computers will connect for file sharing, Sharepoint and etc. So no overclocking and chess usage will be negligible.

Can anybody guess how much rating difference will be between these two? One has 7.169 kNs and the other 10.796. 50 points? 100? More?

Thanks for your time,

[Sedat Canbaz]

Thanks to all of you for your replies.

I am limited to these processors only. It will be a small server for the office where 4-5 computers will connect for file sharing, Sharepoint and etc. So no overclocking and chess usage will be negligible.

Can anybody guess how much rating difference will be between these two? One has 7.169 kNs and the other 10.796. 50 points? 100? More?

Thanks for your time,

Not at all...

I expect (in Auto232 mode,same engine+same neutral book,same time control...) i7 2600K against X3430,to be approx. 20-30 Elo stronger

Regards,
Sedat

[rbarreira]

From what I've seen the Xeons are rarely worth it on performance-price ratio. Intel charges a premium for server features such as support for error-correcting memory.

In this case the i7 certainly has better performance - it has the same amount of cache, but it's a Sandy Bridge and clocked much higher than the X3430...

http://ark.intel.com/products/42927/Int ... _40-GHz%29

http://ark.intel.com/products/52214/Int ... _40-GHz%29

[tttony]

The i7 2600k