You can choose a lower core count, frequency-optimized model, that has a higher clock speed for better single-threaded performance. The lower core count will also save you a LOT of money on SQL Server 2012\/2014 licensing costs, although you will give up that extra load capacity with few total processor cores available. <\/p>\n

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