I've noticed that AutoCAD is still using one giant process on one core and really isn't taking advantage of multiple cores. The only benefit comes in the fact that the Operating system is more distributed leaving AutoCAD to have a core all to itself.
I understand why everyone's default position is to stick with Dual Xeons but since the standard for processors now is multiple cores on one chip do we still really need Xeons? Anyone know of any sites that have done comparisons and benchmarks?
It might be that Xeons vs Multicores are like the AMD64 vs Pentium 4 where even though it never really took advantage of 64 bit processing power at the time the AMD64 was just a better chip in general.