Cons and Pros of Xeon?
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Ali Tauseef
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Con: It's not as good for gaming....
Pro: If you ever need to perform other tasks e.g: Rendering, the Xeon will do good.
But NOT saying that Xeon can't game, it still kicks ass, ofc if its a nice one.
Pro: If you ever need to perform other tasks e.g: Rendering, the Xeon will do good.
But NOT saying that Xeon can't game, it still kicks ass, ofc if its a nice one.
I think the pros are PCIe lanes cores and cost. For the money you can get more cores and PCIe lanes than consumer grade core-i chips. The cons is speed. xeons are typically clocked lower.
Frankly core count and PCIe lanes are not much of a pro. Most games don't use heavy multithreading such that more cores make much difference and the industry is moving away from multi GPU systems that need lots of PCIe lanes. Frankly PCIe specs have outpaced the need of the bus for gaming. Saturating the PCIe bus during gaming is a challenge even with multiple GPUs. So it's fine to run x8/x8. as opposed to x16/x16. And there are lots of other problems with multi GPU options.
Frankly core count and PCIe lanes are not much of a pro. Most games don't use heavy multithreading such that more cores make much difference and the industry is moving away from multi GPU systems that need lots of PCIe lanes. Frankly PCIe specs have outpaced the need of the bus for gaming. Saturating the PCIe bus during gaming is a challenge even with multiple GPUs. So it's fine to run x8/x8. as opposed to x16/x16. And there are lots of other problems with multi GPU options.
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Can't. Unless you do a BCLK overclock, which doesn't yield huge gains.
What generation Xeons are you looking at?
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Without specifics (like number), that doesn't help much. They are likely very old architecture, which have very low IPC compared to your 4590.
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