HI
I currently have a stand alone video encoder virtual sever running on a Dual L5420 which also runs a webserver . The Dual L5420 CPU is older (2008) but has 2 * CPUS with 4 Cores each for a total of 8 Cores.- It also has 12M L2 cache and a clock speed of 2.5. - http://ark.intel.com/products/33929/Intel-Xeon-Processor-L5420-12M-Cache-2_50-GHz-1333-MHz-FSB?q=L542
The E3-1240.v2 setup I have in mind is one E3-1240.v2 CPU , which has a clock speed of 3.4 and 8 MB Cache - http://ark.intel.com/products/65730 .
What I wanted to know is is it worth the upgrade from 8 cores to the newer 4 core * threaded E3-1240v2. Which setup will work best with esx5 server running a video encoder and a webserver ?
Thanks in Advance
AL.