Xeons

[GeforcebOY1]

Some body explain could i use it in a home pc ?

 

[CoMpUtaFrEek]

I think they are engineered in such a way that is optimum performance with servers, I'm not sure how they would do on a desktop system, I imagine they are better at sending data to many users at once, and calculating as many things as possible, quickly as possible. It may not be good on a desktop PC because usually servers run specific programs to host, e.g. Counter-Strike server, which is different to playing the game.

 

[root]

they are the original implementation of Hyper Threading technology.
sometimes a system with one Xeon processor may show as two, but this wuold be in exceptional cases. if and when this does happen it might bugger up some applications ou have that may be licensed per processor.
the other thing is you won't really notice any difference unless you have applications that are able to take advantage of the Hyper threading technologies.

 

[GeforcebOY1]

so the P4 HT technoigy never really is used?

 

[CoMpUtaFrEek]

Thats a good question Geforce. Root may have the answer?

 

[GeforcebOY1]

should be interesting to see

 

[airiox]

http://www.tomshardware.com/motherboard/20040514/index.html

havent read the article but i am sure it will be useful.

 

[GeforcebOY1]

Cheers , Its bad in games so its out of the question

 

[root]

http://www.pcw.co.uk/products/hardware/1130633

hopefully that provides an answer

Applications have to be coded to take advantage of Hyper-Threading so, at the moment, the performance benefits are a little hit and miss.

 

[David Lindon]

Anyone tried Xeons in a desktop? I nearly got them when I was building my new PC.