XEONS

[shuttles]

I am getting confused now
Xeon's now look so like so much like normal Quad Intel CPU's. Why would anyone choose one now days?
I am trying to figure which is best for my scenario. I'd like to build a decent home PC for heavy duty video editing.
Obviously CPU choice is the primary factor.
The choices are getting very gray as to which is best. What advantage is there now?

 

[djcoolmasterx]

Xeons are intended for servers and need to operate 24/7 so they are generally higher quality then the desktop line as they need to be more reliable.

 

[amdfangirl]

Xeons are for servers and workstations, they support as many as 4 Xeons per motherboard. Some Xeons may also have extra cache. Some Xeons have up to six cores.

 

[mi1ez]

Xeons won't fit in standard desktop boards (socket 771 as opposed to 775) and require ECC RAM for extra error detection and protection. This is very expensive. I believe they support different extensions as well.

 

[mi1ez]

A further investigation reveals they use LGA775 and LGA771 depending on the chip. They also use socket 604.

 

[amdfangirl]

The LGA 775 ones are the same as their desktop counterparts, but with a different name. AMD does this too with the AM2 Opteron Line.

 

[someguy7]

The 775 ones are/or were better binned chips for the most part. They had lower VIDs. I havent checked into all that in a while. There have been revisions that have lowered the VID's . When the 4nm parts 1st came out alot of people where getting the xeon version instead. They where the same price or cheaper than its desktop brother and where actually in stock at launch. The desktop versions prices went up cause of the demand for them.

 

[amdfangirl]

Something like that