Has anyone actually gamed on server class CPUs before? I realise they are made from the same cores as the consumer chips, but I thought they had a different instruction set which limited their useability for tasks such as gaming?
Has anyone actually gamed on server class CPUs before? I realise they are made from the same cores as the consumer chips, but I thought they had a different instruction set which limited their useability for tasks such as gaming?
No, no, no, no and NO!Originally Posted by Noids
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My daily/gaming rig is a server class processor (Intel E3110 overclocked to 4.2GHz). It runs everything perfectly fine. The general changes the server chips have are lower power consumption, requiring ECC memory, and of course price/GHz. Are there other changes yes, but if you are looking at those chips, you probably know what they have that the others dont, and why you would or wouldn't need those features (talking Itanium class chips).
E3110 - Asus P5Q - 4 Gigs DDR2 - ATI 3850
Medivh US - Alliance
Kunita - Kunitb - Kunitc - Kunitd - Kunite
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Jordona - Gordona - Cordona - Nordona - Bordona (healer)
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Lax runs an older [by today's standards] dual processor Xeon system with 8 physical cores and his performance is pretty damn good.
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