I am the IT manager for a small Oil & Gas exploration company. I know little to nothing about how to use ArcGIS.
My Mapping and GIS guy needs a new workstation, his current unit is a 4 year old Dell T5500, single Xeon with 4 cores that's maxed out on hardware. It's time to bring on a new system.
The question I have is in reference to processors. I am pretty sure the Intel Xeon processor is the way to go (as opposed to a maxed out i7), two Xeons would be good, but where I am getting stuck is on how many cores, and what speed.
I have been told that 2 processors with a total of 8 cores running at 3.0+ GHz is better than 2 processors with 16 cores running at 2.0+ GHz. Cache on the 3.0+ processors is usually greater per core as well.
Can anyone contribute to this discussion with real-life experience?
--Jon
My Mapping and GIS guy needs a new workstation, his current unit is a 4 year old Dell T5500, single Xeon with 4 cores that's maxed out on hardware. It's time to bring on a new system.
The question I have is in reference to processors. I am pretty sure the Intel Xeon processor is the way to go (as opposed to a maxed out i7), two Xeons would be good, but where I am getting stuck is on how many cores, and what speed.
I have been told that 2 processors with a total of 8 cores running at 3.0+ GHz is better than 2 processors with 16 cores running at 2.0+ GHz. Cache on the 3.0+ processors is usually greater per core as well.
Can anyone contribute to this discussion with real-life experience?
--Jon