Re: [Xen-users] New Xen System for home

[Rudi Ahlers <Rudi@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gordon McLellan wrote:
> The only problem... down the road, if you want to retask the box as a
> single user gamer, your xeon server board will not be very
> accommodating, where as the desktop board would be happy to oblige.
> Although, I'd question the value of a quad core in gamer anyway ...
> 90% of the games out there are still single core ponies.
>
> Gordon
Even so, either on Windows or Linux everyone will benefit more from Quad 
Core than from Dual Core, even if the games, and apps are single core 
aware. Remember something like a game often have a separate graphics 
engine, and you still need to run the main OS, plus sound / video / LAN 
/ etc drivers, plus firewall, plus antivirus, etc. Yes, even games can 
benefit from a Quad Core, so the same system could be used as a VERY 
NICE game machine, it will beat any other normal game machine hands down.
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