Thanks guys. I already have my high end gaming-pc built and pimped out, -- the goal here was to build a decent but affordable workstation/server for my home office. (Thus, SR2 really isn't an option). I noticed that the only affordable 32nm cpus that have at least four cores are the westmeres.
I use my office PC for developing, virtual machines, to serve as a home file server and very occasionally for gaming.
Is there any real reason NOT to use the Westmere? It's affordable, quad-core and 32nm.
What negative impact is there in using it in a motherboard not supporting dual qpi (other than not being able to take advantage of dual qpi)? Would it perform worse than, say, a nehalem desktop cpu rated at the same speed with the same number of cores?
post edited by cpsusie@hotmail.com - Monday, September 06, 2010 3:45 PM