[geeks] Amazing! Tales from the Dell T30 trenches...

[Michael-John Turner]

On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 01:11:52PM +0000, Mark Benson wrote:
>I dunno how the E3-12xxvx CPUs stack up against desktop's equivalent
>models. Our production server is running on an E3-1230v3 and seems to hold
>it's own in a small business LAMP server setup.

They're /broadly/ equivalent to the same generation/specification 
non-Extreme i7. So, for example, an E3-1240v3 is /roughly/ equivalent in 
performance and specification to an i7-4770K. Both are 4C/8T, 3.4Ghz base 
clock although the i7 can turbo to 3.9 and the Xeon to 3.8. In this case, 
the Xeon doesn't have an integrated GPU, wherease the i7 does. So, 
/broadly/ equivalent :)

i7s don't support ECC RAM though (E3 Xeons support both ECC and non-ECC 
RAM).

Cheers, MJ
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