Am 17.08.19 um 03:12 schrieb Harry Putnam:
> I'm running hipster on an HP xw8600.  Don't want to open it up right
> now but I think I've seen something a while back indicating it was
> manufactured in 2010 or so.  
>
> Someone here will know if that is possible, but at any rate it is
> pretty old.
>
> It's a 2x with Xeon 5450 @ 3.00Hz processors 
>
> What I want to know is what would be todays equivalent to what this
> old beast was in it's day.
>
> Since it has 32 GB of ram it still seems pretty fast and powerful,
> but I'd like to try a modern equivalent and see what its like.
>
> If anyone is willing and knowledgeable about Xeon's, please let me know
> what would be a Xeon model 4-5 yrs old that would be a modern
> equivalent.
You can answer your question quite easily. The successors of your HP
workstation are
Z800 -> Z820 -> Z840 -> Z8
So, you'll just have to look what processors are being offered for
either Z820 or Z840.
Z820 come either with E5-2600 or E5-2600v2; Z840 either with E5-2600v2
or E5-2600v3.


Regards
Andreas
>
> I've confused myself pretty thoroughly pawing thru Xeon's online
> stuff.  But I'd like to start shopping on ebay and similar sites for a
> newer setup.
>
>
>
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