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part of the beauty of gaming on a pc as opposed to a console is that it's always

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possible to push the limits further whether that's with a higher resolution

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monitor exotic peripheral devices or a high-end virtual reality setup

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so it shouldn't be surprising that many computer gaming enthusiasts have

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wondered if the grass would be greener if they installed a powerful server CPU

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in their gaming rig and the idea isn't really that absurd

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Intel's xeon lineup for example gets marketed as their top tier and most

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reliable processors but the pricing of some models is

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comparable to Intel's own desktop counterparts

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so is it worth it to take the plunge so you can laugh at your peon friends who

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are still gaming on their puny core i5s and ryzen 7s

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well to answer we need to examine how

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difficult it would be to migrate to a server class processor not only do

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server cpus often use very similar if not identical micro architectures to

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consumer chips many of them even use the same socket

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allowing an upgrade to a xeon or opteron

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CPU whether it's officially or unofficially just replace the CPU itself

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on your existing motherboard boop

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and then after you fire up your machine with its new server class dna

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you probably won't even notice a difference in the basic functionality of

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your machine that is all your drives memory modules and peripherals should

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continue to work as they did but hold on a minute

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you've opened up your favorite game and things don't really seem to be any

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better your frame rates are about the same and you can't crank the settings up

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any higher than you did with your old CPU what gives

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well remember how i said that server CPU architectures are very similar to

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typical gaming processors this means that core for core clock for

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clock performance shouldn't be terribly different from what you're already used

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to and in some cases it could even end up being worse

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server cpus are designed with stability and power efficiency in mind since they

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often power systems that need to be running 24 7 in data centers that have

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monthly power bills greater than what you or i make in a year

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that is why their cores typically run at

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lower clock speeds than desktop cpus

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also one of the biggest reasons for buying server processors is to get more

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processing course than you can on the desktop but because most games and

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desktop applications can't spread their processing load over multiple cores very

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well even a server CPU with 20 cores

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won't give you a noticeable performance boost in games because it'll often have

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lower single threaded speeds making matters worse many server chips

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don't support overclocking don't include integrated graphics for

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igpu accelerated workloads and troubleshooting and

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one of their most desktop applicable features

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stability enhancing ecc memory support

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drives up the cost of your CPU requires more expensive ecc memory and won't be

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utilized by games which isn't to say that you can't game

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on a server processor if you find a really good deal on ebay or something so

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if this is the case hey pair it with a solid graphics card and have fun

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your frame rate might be slightly diminished in some games due to the

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lower CPU clocks but if you stream or you screen capture your

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gameplay the extra cores could come in handy and of course if you do more than

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just game a server CPU is a perfect

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choice for virtualization allowing you to run virtual machines in isolated

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software environments for running multiple operating systems serving media

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to your household or heck even having multiple people run separate gaming

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sessions on the same system which we detailed in our two gamers one CPU

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project which you can check out up here but getting back to most people if

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you're joe gamer looking to max out your FPS there isn't much point in sitting

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around coveting a xeon or epic CPU

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especially because there are other upgrades that you can make to your

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system that would be way more attention grabbing do you ever find yourself

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trying to control two computers at once well synergy is the solution for you

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it's a software tool that allows you to do that with just one keyboard and mouse

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you can even share multiple screens so there's no more messing around for you

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know which set of peripherals goes with your development station and which set

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goes with your mac and which set goes with your Windows pc because it's even cross

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platform with great features like clipboard sharing dragging and dropping

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between the computers custom hotkeys and

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more it's available in both basic and pro versions with the latter including

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ssl encryption to secure the data sent between the computers synergy is

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