Servers vs Desktop PCs as Fast As Possible
Techquickie
·Techquickie
·2015-05-07
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1,095 words · ~5 min read
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okay so lineus there's desktop computers and then there's like server computers
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but how different are they exactly well
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any computer actually has the same basic components processor working memory
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storage Etc and you may be surprised to hear that fundamentally they're not that
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different with some of those components even coming off the same assembly line
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but that doesn't mean that you can just grab off-the-shelf desktop components
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and like fashion yourself a server I mean sure this core 7 runs at 3.8 GHz
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and this Zeon runs at 3.8 GHz but it costs way more well hold on in just a
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second hold off on the core i7 sometimes
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there's more to it than gigahertz and gigabytes and all those gigas so let's
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get this list of differences kicked off number one we just discovered server
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gear is much more expensive for specifications that often appear similar
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or even worse at times but why you get
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intercompatibility with other server grade Hardware things like EC C and
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registered RAM support a bullet point that's hidden halfway down the product
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page for that CPU from before now while using memory that is slightly more
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resistant to errors might not seem like a big deal to a typical desktop User
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it's absolutely critical for a server in a desktop environment one little tiny
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RAM error caused by like cosmic rays might cause Little Sally the cute
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picture she made in Ms paint but in a server it could result in the loss of a
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patient's medical records or who knows what else not to mention speaking of
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intercompatibility that server memory is available in much higher capacities so
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you got to have support for that we find the next difference in the little
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details the characteristics of a product that don't always find their way onto a
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spec sheet for example server and workstation grade Hardware uses higher
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quality components and is subjected to much more rigorous quality testing and
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validation they not only are made to handle heavier Duty Cycles but also live
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longer overall while doing it now on to
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features silent operation a bunch of usb3 ports and like overclocking
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settings out the Wazoo are not the kinds of things that server clients will want
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to spend money on which doesn't mean that they're cheap skates they'll pay
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big money for stuff like fancy networking capabilities Remote
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Management interfaces and Hardware redundancy so that the machine won't
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experience any downtime even in the event of a hardware failure on something
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like a power supply and it's great that they buy this stuff because it drives
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the costs down for us desktop folks in the future so my next Point actually
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ties at least partially into most of the others server Hardware is optimized for
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different workloads for example on the desktop our applications aren't heavily
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multi-threaded so higher frequency processors with fewer cores work really
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well but a server might run an operating system and software that takes much
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better advantage of multiple processing cores so we might get much better
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results with a lower clocked server CPU that has more processing cores or even
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even with multiple CPUs to further spread up the workload and then finally
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there are the optimizations made for the environment in which a server will
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operate for example a consumer and Enterprise grade hard drive might share
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much of the same technology it's a bit of a recurring theme here but a server
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hard drive is much more resistant to wear and tear from vibration something
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that doesn't matter for a drive sitting in a desktop by itself but that is
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critical for a drive that's surrounded on all sides by other drives spinning
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and clicking away doing their own work and there are so many little things like
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this a server won't compromise on power consumption or increase size
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unnecessarily to squeeze a little bit more performance out of the hardware like a gaming rig would it's all about
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how much computing power can fit in as small a space as possible while
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consuming as little power as possible the general consumer has different
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priorities in a big tower that consumes a couple more watts doesn't really
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matter when you got one family PC in the house or even two or three or four but
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if you were buying 5,000 of them it would be a different story which is
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