Fast but economic workstation needed

[oluv]

@fooprobe

Have a look at http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html
It should give you a rough idea of the comparative speed of processors.

And yes, only Xeons can be used in multiprocessor configurations.

thanks for this list, which is interesting.
according to this list, indeed my E5-2630 xeon has only 8,907 points, while the i7-3770K reaches 9,650 points. but i don’t understand why even 2 xeons seem to be hardly faster than a single core i7.