Hi, I am ordering Dell Workstation 5820 with Xeon Processor & would like to know if extra $ 110.00 price difference is worth getting Xeon 2245 instead of Xeon 2235. https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+W-2235+@+3.80GHz&id=3821 Passmark for 2235 = 14289 Passmarke for 2245 = 19499 Also I am ordering 2 x NVIDIA T-1000 Graphics card ( The Max Dell will allow ) but would like to buy the 3rd from online & add it later & would like to know if it will work to drive 12 x 24" Monitors ( 1920x1200 ). Mobo has : Full length 5 PCIe slots : 2 X16 1 X8 1 X4 1 X1 I am planning on adding the 3rd card in X8 slot. Also they are giving 16AMP power cord & PSU is only 950W. Isn't 6A enough ? My old workstation is 1100W & has 6A Cord. Scataphagos : You were right on Dell 3660. It had just too many problems & did not run 8 monitors fully. I was fixed on New USB 3.2 & 3.2 Type C plus DP ports ( Bells & whistles ) on it. But now 5820 has many USB 3.1 Gen1 & also type c ports which it didn't then. So I took your advice & returned Dell 3660 & getting 5820 now. Thanks buddy doing what is right, always.
Unless know your software will utilize 8 cores, likely little difference in trading on 2235 (6 core) or 2245 (8core). Both have about the same single thread performance. As for 12 monitors... probably will run. W10 originally had a default limit of 10, but if default setting won't handle >10, there are other monitor software programs which allow much more. I once saw a demo of W10 running 72 monitors. Monitor resolution you propose will be OK... PSU, too. As far as power cord, never heard of it having an amp rating so low as 6amp. The lightest extension cord commonly available is usually 16ga, 11amp. If a cord was truly rated at 6amp, it would safely handle only 660W of power.
So why a jump of 33% Pass mark in 2245 & does higher pass mark mean faster or handle tick charts better ?
I have been using 12 monitors on Win-7 for 10 years without any special software. How is that Win-10 won't ?
Difference between 6C and 8C. Passmark rates according to "max data throughput if all cores/threads are saturated 100% with data"... which is likely never the case. You'll probably use 4 cores, max, so having extra cores and threads won't improve speed. Then again, sometime in the future 8Cs might come in handy for $110. I'm surprised the price diff is only $110... used to be much greater. But here's a thought... if you're running tic charts on several/many issues at once... you may benefit from having 8C. I recall years ago running tic charts on MetaStock, and it had my CPU pegged 100% all the time... but I don't recall whether I had a 2C or 4C CPU. Tic charts are heavily taxing on your hardware... suggest running maybe 1-min charts instead.