[jajakub]

Well that is exactly my thinking, I even asked people who sell ansys over here but even they do not have any real life benchmarks comparing socket 2011 i7 with a similar speedy E5 xeon... I realized from what I read that bottlenecks in ansys are more likely in I/O so instead of pricy xeon i decided to put the money saved into another sata 3 controler and separate ssd drives for swap, working directory and system.