Between the I7 and Xeon go with the I7. As I said before Xeon is associated with servers due to the higher throughput. You will never see the difference unless you are doing extreme video/graphics editing or running something like Auto CAD.
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If you go with the 'I' series you may also want to look into the new I9 processors although they would probably increase your cost a fair amount. LOL! An 18-core I9 would only cost you $2,099.99.
https://www.neweggbusiness.com/product/ ... nsearchb2bThe funny thing is that the clock speed is only 2.6 GHz.. Again it is all about throughput, not clock speed.
Again you might look at AMD processors. I thought my new AMD Ryzen wes 8-core but appears to actually be 16-core. Matches quite well against a high level I7 and costs less than a third the amount. A 10 core I7 would cost you over $1500.00. This is just for an example of cost differences. Both these processors would be major overkill for your needs.