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    Processor Question

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Shinra358, May 4, 2014.

  1. Shinra358

    Shinra358 Notebook Consultant

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    Intel® Core™ i7-4960X Processor Extreme Edition
    (15M Cache, up to 4.00 GHz)

    Intel® Xeon® Processor E7-4820 v2
    (16M Cache, 2.00 GHz)


    I see the first one higher up on the list. It is a 6 core gaming. The 2nd one is way down the list and it is an 8 core 'server' processor. Would the 2nd one blow the first one out of the water with gaming, or do server processors just deal with optimization of server things?
     
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    smellon Notebook Evangelist

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    You would see higher performance out of the 4960 due to the high turbo clocks.

    In all honesty though, a 4-core with hyperthreading would be just as good and the money saved would be better used toward better GPU's.

    I believe most games barely supports 2 cores, with 4 cores still being far down the road. Therefore with 8 cores, most will be wasted. With a much higher turbo boost, the 2 cores of the 4960 should be significantly faster than the octo-core.

    Also, looking at intel's page for the server cpu, it mostly contains checks against errors which will not be used anyway in gaming.

    Also, the two CPU's are different sockets and are not compatible.
     
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    the i7 would run at 3.6GHz unless it was using under 6 cores for the turbo to activate, but either way the i7 will win. The XEON is meant for handling large flows of data and different kinds of data than is really used in gaming. If a game uses only one-four CPU cores, having six or eight will not do any good, though boosting the speed of the 1-4 that it IS using will help, so the XEON will also lose out in that respect.

    Also, while it is rare, some games STILL only use a single core. Like Terraria. And un-modded minecraft. And anything made with Java.
     
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  4. n=1

    n=1 YEAH SCIENCE!

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    Not to mention that server boards are an entirely different beast altogether.
     
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    Arent compatible with what?



    Btw, I'm asking this question because I saw some xeons as options for the eurocom version of the 9570.
     
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    The xeon are locked and geared towards multi threaded apps.

    unsurprisingly most games are not designed to thread across 8 cores so they will loose to the i7, especially when it is overclocked to 4.2-4.4ghz on 6 cores.
     
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    Only the larger xeons require a special socket (eg the 15 core ones)

    The others use a standard 2011 socket.
     
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    You can't put a XEON into the socket that any i7 will fit into. It's a totally different motherboard you need.
     
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    Yeah, I wrote it before you posted, sorry about that. You know me Meaker, I'm the first to admit I didn't know something.
     
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    Rather than giving a definitive no, if you are not sure, it's best to say if I remember correctly or I think this is the case.
     
    Meaker@Sager, May 7, 2014
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    ^ very true. I usually do that. Should look out for it more.
     
    D2 Ultima, May 10, 2014
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