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Xeon or i7

Providing that it is apples to apples as in same # of core, CPU speed, which chip would perform better for home recording? No sure but is one better for serial and or parallel processing? I will be using Cake walk, not sure of what amp Sim or other plugins outside of the plugg-ins that come with cakewalk that I will be choosing.

dual core amd versus 2 xeon cpu's

I'm just about to upgrade my daw and have seen two good options. One is a dual core amd 64x2 and the other has two xeon 3.2ghz cpu's. My question is, do you think I would notice a significant speed advantage with the twin xeon system (about a grand more than the amd 64x2)? I use Cubase SX3 and Reason 3 with an O1x and Emu 1820m.

Many thanks for any opinions.