Intel i7 or xeon e3

amando 2020.02.05 18:06

Hello,

i have a question, i try to ise a dedicated server close to my broker location,

i can choos between

i7 4790 with 32 gb 1600mhz ram and

xeon e3 1230 with 32gb 1333mhz ram

Both with ssd

what is the better for metatrader?

clock speed is nearly the same

but the e3 have way more transistors on cpu

can someone explain what is better?

Alain Verleyen 2020.02.05 21:31 #1

amando:

Hello,

i have a question, i try to ise a dedicated server close to my broker location,

i can choos between

i7 4790 with 32 gb 1600mhz ram and

xeon e3 1230 with 32gb 1333mhz ram

Both with ssd

what is the better for metatrader?

clock speed is nearly the same

but the e3 have way more transistors on cpu

can someone explain what is better?

The clock speed is irrelevant nowadays.

You can check the CPUs performance here.

PassMark Software - CPU Benchmarks

www.cpubenchmark.net

CPU Benchmark results (“Baselines”) were gathered from users’ submissions to the PassMark web site as well as from internal testing. PerformanceTest conducts eight different tests and then averages the results together to determine the CPU Mark rating for a system. To ensure that the full CPU power of a PC system is realized, PerformanceTest...