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Quote from grimallq»

The Xeon is a server CPU. Not really optimized for running games, or any typical application.

I wonder why you thought it was a good idea to stick that in a gaming rig.

You're wrong. I run Xeon processors and they are far more superior than any Core series processor. They are designed for servers, yes, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with using them in a gaming rig. You just have to pick out the right one.

It would have been much better to get a Xeon with 4 cores and 8 threads @ 3.8GHz (Intel Xeon E3 1240) than it would have to get a Xeon E5 with 4 cores and 8 threads @ 2.4 GHz. The first processor is also significantly cheaper. If you want a Xeon in your gaming rig, it's almost always best to go with an E3, and not an E5 or E7. Why? Because anything with more cores will lower the amount of GHz you can run at for the amount of cores you get. They have almost the same performance when you add it up, but split it into a lot more cores and threads. 16 threads+ is not too useful for gaming. Nobody can say I'm wrong here as I have personal experience with it.

If anything else is at fault here, it's Minecraft. On 1.7 Minecraft only uses one core of your CPU, so it's limited to 2.40GHz on one core. It can't use all 16 of your threads. That can be a problem. Give 1.8 a try, as it utilizes multiple cores.

Quote from Frankuro_The_Great»

LinusTechTips.
He will teach you the ways.
Seriously, You know how to get 4HDD into RAID 0 but not that a XEON will be **** in a gaming environment

Read my previous comment about the xeon processors as you are also wrong.

Quote from Myzticlive»

Get a better processor... spend no more than $400

Read the comment above my previous comment. His processors are fine. (To an extent)

Quote from grimallq»

I admit I overblown my earlier post. A lot probably. Still using Xeons for a desktop/gaming rig isn't mostly wasting their multi-threading potential a lot? Since most apps/games aren't designed to utilize so many concurrent CPU threads?

I've seen some tests done. Even Minecraft 1.8 seems to work better, on average, with high speed 4 core i5s and i7s, then it does on high end Xeons.

Re-read/quote my post. You must have started typing this comment before I edited it.

Quote from Craftyawesome»

He's talking about the GPU and you are talking about brocessers (CPU)

Wrong. Read closely.

Quote from Mouzen_Animations»

His GPU is not the problem, His GPU is much better than mine and I get a steady 140 FPS in modded and vanilla on max everything but render distance.

Thank you, I didn't have to explain that to him.

Quote from Hawker_Typhoon»

so all the blame gets shifted towards the software. and you need 3 posts to do that?
come on now... economics. could've done that in one.

The result is bad, and the software could be better (1.8....... )
but what remains, and that is undeniable... is a potentially weird Hardware setup. what remains to be known is the Motherboard type.
That could be another grinning Moment.

Yes, I did need 3 posts. 3 People were blaming the problem on it being a Xeon processor, which in this case is the problem, but I needed to explain to all 3 of them that some Xeon processors are perfectly fine for gaming. If 3 people are wrong, I have to quote all 3 of them in order to correct them. And no, when I click inside one editor and click "Quote" it does not direct each quote into the same editor, if this is what you meant. I'm not going to manually quote a person either, that's just ridiculous. Seeing as you don't even know how to quote a person, I wouldn't expect you to understand.