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Dual Quad-core Xeon Server for...gaming?

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Hey guys, so my parents work at a pretty big IT company and they got connections so my dad picked up a server randomly for $100, and is bringing it home tomorrow. The specs of it, from what I gathered so far, I will update them when I actually get to check the specs on it.

CPU: 2x Xeon Quad-core Server CPUs (3.0GHz each)
Motherboard: Some dual-socket server motherboard.
RAM: ~8GB, maybe more, unknown speed server RAM.
Storage: 400GB total capacity with multiple 15,000RPM drives.
GPU: NONE!
NOTE: Its about two years old, so I'm assuming pretty recent parts, PCIe x16 2.0 slots, RAM 800MHz+, etc.

My dad says hes going to use it to virtualize couple of OSs for around the house. I see the chance to use it to do some PC gaming.

So obviously, I'm going to have to add a GPU onto that. One graphics card I can think of that I can get immediately is a Radeon HD4850 1GB. So based on these specs, how well would it do at gaming? I read around and heard that most games don't use more that 4 cores, so if I can make a virtualized OS with 4 cores and using most of the processing power of the GPU, could I possibly play some Black Ops from my laptop that doesn't quite cut it?

Thanks.

Sound's Interesting. Can you keep us updated please? What progress have you made so far? Can the server virtualize a gaming PC?

fanwashere said:


My dad says hes going to use it to virtualize couple of OSs for around the house. I see the chance to use it to do some PC gaming.

So obviously, I'm going to have to add a GPU onto that. One graphics card I can think of that I can get immediately is a Radeon HD4850 1GB. So based on these specs, how well would it do at gaming? I read around and heard that most games don't use more that 4 cores, so if I can make a virtualized OS with 4 cores and using most of the processing power of the GPU, could I possibly play some Black Ops from my laptop that doesn't quite cut it?

Thanks.

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