Go look at some single thread benchmarks, i5 can beat it. They only win out on multithreaded benchmarks, most games are not threaded beyond the ability of an i5 or i7. Go look at video game performance benchmarks, xeon is not better for gaming at all with i7 winning out yet again at stock clock speeds. Both xeon and i5/i7 perform the same at the same clock speed, yet the i7 has a higher base clock and is overclockable, the xeon cannot overclock.
That and the fact that you can take an i7 (i7-3770k in my case) overclock it to 4.0GHz and lower the voltages to below 1V! Yes, below 1V running Prime95 fully stable for 24 hours (if you want a server like power consumption). Or, OC it to 4.5GHz or even 5GHz like I used to have mine
Sorry to butt in this chat about processors, but can we come back to the main topic? I want to know if this is a good build and if I am missing anything. Thank you.
The question was pretty much answered dude... Yes, it's an awesome build if you get a i7-4770k to go with it and a SSD (Maybe a ~250GB SSD with a 2TB HDD)
SSD is basically Memory speed HDD is a mechanical drive its thousands of times slower than an SSD....
No, it's much much much faster, but also much more expensive for the same capacity. I have one where I've installed Windows and all my programs (except games), it's sooooooo much faster than a HDD
I will consider it, ever since my first PC I have used HDD without issues. I will consider it, but, my RAM might make up for the speed.
I built this for $3200 http://puu.sh/69tSC You could try using parts similar to these to get to your price point.
That is a great PC, but, I have a budget of $2500. For what I am getting right now, it is very nice. And with Nvidia Shadowplay, recording is easier so I don't need to go all out with speed.
sorry for answering this, but now iam on pc first time today and can provide my example. The configuration is already finished so^^ this performance rating on the heaviest game i saw: on other AAA games like formula1, bf, cod or ac its always 3rd behind those extreme versions. Normal user like me dont overclock so its pretty damn powered for the future. Also optimizations will use all cores and the hyper threading feature, dont worry. I look at mantle for bf4 and maybe its working, who knows BTW: The Xeon could lower the voltages to below 1V too, thats not so important.
A hard disk drive (HDD) uses a big metal disk mounted to a motor, disk spins and a small read/write head can move back and forth across it and either detect the magnetic field of the point under the head or change the field, different field polarities then equal a binary 0 or 1 and can be used to store data. Ancient tech really, functional though. Of course in order to read a piece of data, the entire disk has to spin into the correct location and the head has to slide to the correct position across the disk, this takes time. Solid state drives use NAND flash memory. Solid electronic circuit with several billion cells, each cell can be on or off equalling a binary 0 or 1. All that is required to jump to a particular cell is to change the address lines, no big clunky disk to spin. Its the same tech thats in a USB memory stick or on an SD card. The effective read/write speeds are much higher (in reality they arent any different from a hard disk, but you no longer have disk seek time, ie the time it takes for the disk to move into position so you can still get more data through in less time). Won't boost frame rates in games, but will decrease the time it takes to load files from the hard disk. Also as there are no moving parts they are much sturdier. A single NAND flash cell can't be written too as many times as a magnetic hard drive can though so they do wear out (faster than the motor and bearings in a hard drive will). Also more expensive for the same storage density. Last time I seriously looked at solid state drives they had a price of approximately £1 per gigabyte of storage. So a 1 terabyte SSD would be about £1000. They must have come down a bit by now, at the time you could have a 1TB HDD for under £100 easily. So about 10 times the cost for the same storage amount. Usually you take a a 64-256gb SSD as your C drive and then a plain HDD as your D drive if you are going to use an SSD.
The question is, do you want to overclock? Also, who said xeons are not meant for gaming, like the processor cares if its a game that executes commands from an instruction set or a server application, lol. Xeons are a very affordable way to get SMT without paying for an i7 As i was asking, it all comes down to, if you want to overclock or not.
Yeah, it's not even close to... But the guy thinks Xeon's are for gaming and is trying to prove it at all cost... Just lets let him be...
@OP ignore masterjoc, he has no idea what he's talking about, and metro last night doesn't really use all the cpu (unless of course you run on like a pentium t, then first off, im suprised it even ran, second off, your cpu would instantly max itself , but with a xeon, not even close)
Its a forum, so we can discuss I'm not saying it's just for gaming, but like my pic shown very fast and usable for gaming rigs. This CPU is so fast, you won't change that often in the next years. Also multicoresupport is coming in the future, that's for sure and everyone knows it. Gesendet von meinem HTC One mit Tapatalk 2
Quite the contrary. Most games are on the limit of how far they can be threaded to get performance gains, throwing more threads at a problem doesn't normally help at all unless needed. Many games can be broken down into render and update loops with a few having 1 or 2 more. AI and physics would benefit from GPGPU technologies such as OpenCL or Cuda in many games more so than having more threads thrown at them. Games are not inherently multi threaded. Servers however are and in some cases the Xeon can't cut it, so you throw more machines at it. - - - Updated - - - Just had a quick look online, down to about 50p per gb on SSD. Half the price they used to be.
Just out of curiosity, is it safe to order parts from Amazon? The parts are destributed through Amazon.com, not any other company. I am planning on buying my HyperX blue ram from them. I was planning on buying all my parts from centercom, instore. But then amazon is about $30-40 cheaper.
