Xeon's for Gaming?

Merkwürdigeliebe · 11-12-2007, 11:07 PM

Well, I've got some considering to do. Till' now, my plan was to wait for the Phenoms, if the Phenoms suck, to wait until the Yorkfields....

But - yesterday Intel unveiled 16 45nm processors. One of them caught my eye, the quad-core Xeon E5420, part of the Xeon series codenamed 'Harpertown'. Curiously enough, it's MSRP was $316, the exact same price for the Q9450 being released in January. It's got the same 12MB L2 cache as well. The E5405, a lower-clocked model, goes for as low as $209!

Now, I don't know much about server/workstation CPUs, but I remember back in the day when I was interested in an Opteron 165, everybody said it was a formidable processor for gaming and that it overclocked very well because of a higher grade silicon used for server processors.

Is the same true for the Xeons? Can I use it for a gaming rig? They seem like quite a good option.

Now another thing is it's LGA771, am I correct in assuming that it should have no trouble being recognized in an LGA775 motherboard?

NosBoost300 · 11-12-2007, 11:25 PM

hrmm thats weird.. but the kentsfield xeons x3210's and such.. all work on lga775.. but are lga775... never heard of lga771... and i havent heard anything on lga771's being made.. that is a good question

but then again, this isa different structure than the yorksfields.. hrmmmm i don't know if it'll be the same? cuz at least todays xeons are still conroe/kentsfield

Merkwürdigeliebe · 11-12-2007, 11:46 PM

I believe these are Penryns.

PS. Every time I read one of your posts, I can't help but imagine you have a Peter from 'Family Guy' voice, because of that old sig. It's really driving me insane.

NosBoost300 · 11-12-2007, 11:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Merkwürdigliebe

I believe these are Penryns.

PS. Every time I read one of your posts, I can't help but imagine you have a Peter from 'Family Guy' voice, because of that old sig. It's really driving me insane.

haha i find that as a good thing!!! hahaha

fhasser · 11-13-2007, 03:36 AM

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NosBoost300 · 11-13-2007, 04:06 AM

skulltrail certainly sounds delicious

gurusan · 11-13-2007, 04:10 AM

LGA 771 is the socket for server boards, and no they won't fit in a 775 board.

Besides, ever since the Core architecture was released Xeons = Core 2 Duos. THey are IDENTICAL.

For example, X3220 = Q6600,

baron5 · 11-13-2007, 05:26 AM

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Originally Posted by gurusan

LGA 771 is the socket for server boards, and no they won't fit in a 775 board.

Besides, ever since the Core architecture was released Xeons = Core 2 Duos. THey are IDENTICAL.

For example, X3220 = Q6600,

really i never new that, interesting never really looked into server cpus b4