I'm running AutoCAD 2006 here at the office and need to order a few new workstations to keep up with this resource hog of a program. These workstations will also be running Creative Suite, another hog, but likely not simultaneously. Can anyone give me good feedback on whether I should stick with a single core processor at a faster clock speed (3.8GHZ) or go with a Pentium D 830 3.00 GHZ. I haven't looked into the dual Xeon, as I don't know much about those either. As I understand it, the dual chips process each at 3.00 GHZ but process different things / programs so you get a little less lag. Does this sound right?
Is Autocad even capable of Hyperthreading? From what I can pick up in various articles, no, but I'd like to know if anyone's recent upgraded from a single core to a dual core and what discernable differences have been noted.
Thanks for any insight you can provide!