the title says it all.
I'm desperately in need of upgrading my virtualization server. I'll be running many guest OSes at the same time. This will mostly be a mix of Windows flavours, Mac OS X 10.6 & 10.8, Linux, and some BSD and Solaris on the side.
Right now I'm looking at both the Xeon E31230Lv3 and the Atom C2750 for a compact and low power server.
Would the doubled core count of the Atom chip and higher frequency (2.4 GHz vs 1.8 GHz) prove to be more advantageous than the higher IPC and loads of instructions that are fully accelerated (AES-NI? SSE3/4?) available on the Xeon?
I'm desperately in need of upgrading my virtualization server. I'll be running many guest OSes at the same time. This will mostly be a mix of Windows flavours, Mac OS X 10.6 & 10.8, Linux, and some BSD and Solaris on the side.
Right now I'm looking at both the Xeon E31230Lv3 and the Atom C2750 for a compact and low power server.
Would the doubled core count of the Atom chip and higher frequency (2.4 GHz vs 1.8 GHz) prove to be more advantageous than the higher IPC and loads of instructions that are fully accelerated (AES-NI? SSE3/4?) available on the Xeon?