https://www.ptcusercommunity.com/t5/Mathcad/Xeon-or-i7-Trying-to-decide-today/m-p/493539#M180056 <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Building a new Dell 7720 laptop to run everything from modeling, Mold Analysis, MathCAD, Bunkspeed, Keyshot etc.</P> <P>Already getting the NVidia M5000M GPU.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>1. With Creo 4 starting to support multithreading is it now finally faster to go with Xeon?</P> <P>2. Since I'll be turning off the onboard GPU that isn't a deciding factor for a CPU</P> <P>3. Which do you guys recommend?? Leaning toward the E3-1535M V6 for the fastest clock.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Thanks!!!<span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="processors.jpg" style="width: 575px;"><img src="https://www.ptcusercommunity.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/3526iAEEB7E1D17D61678/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="processors.jpg" alt="processors.jpg" /></span></P> Thu, 03 May 2018 13:11:51 GMT scampbell 2018-05-03T13:11:51Z https://www.ptcusercommunity.com/t5/Mathcad/Xeon-or-i7-Trying-to-decide-today/m-p/493539#M180056 <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Building a new Dell 7720 laptop to run everything from modeling, Mold Analysis, MathCAD, Bunkspeed, Keyshot etc.</P> <P>Already getting the NVidia M5000M GPU.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>1. With Creo 4 starting to support multithreading is it now finally faster to go with Xeon?</P> <P>2. Since I'll be turning off the onboard GPU that isn't a deciding factor for a CPU</P> <P>3. Which do you guys recommend?? Leaning toward the E3-1535M V6 for the fastest clock.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Thanks!!!<span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="processors.jpg" style="width: 575px;"><img src="https://www.ptcusercommunity.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/3526iAEEB7E1D17D61678/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="processors.jpg" alt="processors.jpg" /></span></P> Thu, 03 May 2018 13:11:51 GMT https://www.ptcusercommunity.com/t5/Mathcad/Xeon-or-i7-Trying-to-decide-today/m-p/493539#M180056 scampbell 2018-05-03T13:11:51Z https://www.ptcusercommunity.com/t5/Mathcad/Xeon-or-i7-Trying-to-decide-today/m-p/495511#M180057 <P>Go with Xeon.</P> Sat, 23 Dec 2017 04:27:07 GMT https://www.ptcusercommunity.com/t5/Mathcad/Xeon-or-i7-Trying-to-decide-today/m-p/495511#M180057 ThoRig 2017-12-23T04:27:07Z https://www.ptcusercommunity.com/t5/Mathcad/Xeon-or-i7-Trying-to-decide-today/m-p/495514#M180058 <P>I went Xeon / ECC for reliability only.&nbsp; Always been a good choice with PTC S/W.</P> <P>Raw performance would dictate otherwise.</P> Sat, 23 Dec 2017 06:54:12 GMT https://www.ptcusercommunity.com/t5/Mathcad/Xeon-or-i7-Trying-to-decide-today/m-p/495514#M180058 TomD.inPDX 2017-12-23T06:54:12Z