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    Intel Xeon

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by sheff159, Sep 14, 2006.

  1. sheff159

    sheff159 Notebook Deity

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    Ok I know that the Core and Core 2 are the main consumer grade processor now. I also know about the Xeon processor, and that its on high end workstations and servers. But how powerful are these things? How do they compare to say a Core or Core 2 in performance, heat, power consumption? Im not looking into buying one, im just curious.
     
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    They use about twice (sometimes more) as much power as the Core CPUs, have about twice as much cache (the real powerful ones can have even more cache, 16MB+ L3 cache), support a lot of server technologies like Intel VT for domains, and you can have them work in parallel on a server (quad core ftw).

    All pure overkill for the every day consumer. Although AMD Opterons (AMD's server CPU) are quite good when used as normal desktop CPUs.
     
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