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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?
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?
