Benefits of upgrading Xeon 5160 ==> E5450?

[Kletter1mann]

I'm running a Proliant DL380 G5 as a file server for videos. It now has 2x Xeon 5160's (4 cores total). The E5450 (quad core) was offered as an option, so upgrading would bring me to 8 cores. The server is maxed out with 32Gb ECC ram. The E5450's L2 cache is also 4x as large as the 5160 and it supports SSE4.1.

I really don't know any of this stuff impacts real world performance. What kind of improvements would be expected from this upgrade and in for what kind of applications? Thanks in advance.

 

[GhislainG]

How busy are the processors?

 

[Kletter1mann]

I'm not sure. But my question is what kind of applications might see some benefit by the upgrade. Let me put it like this: is there some specific application that would gain by the upgrade then I'd use the server for that. I have other computers. I realize that this is a kind of bass-ackwards approach.

 

[devavictrix]

I can't answer your question directly but I have recently upgraded from a 5110 to an x5355 for general desktop use on Windows 10 and the difference has been very noticeable. I just use MS Office and Edge browser and everything is much quicker to load. This website has been a great example. It used to be painfully slow to load (30s ish) and then scrolling would lag (I assumed because of the adverts) but now it loads and scrolls within 5 secs.

 

[Kletter1mann]

That does help. Your upgrade greatly increased clock speed, which mine wouldn't. OTOH, my upgrade increases L2 cache 4x while yous was 2x. If I go to the x5460 get a small increase in clock speed. I guess that's what I'll do.