advantages/disadvantages? i was looking at the mac pro and i saw that they only used server cpus over the i7 950. Nobody really seems to use server processors on these boards.
a server cpu generally speaking has itenium spport as well as support for vt-x over on the intel side of things. amd has similar technologies b different names essentially their even. anyway almost any cpu can be a server cpu but certain features require certain hardware.. so keep your wits abot you when buying one.. essentially a server cpu is a desktop cpu with more cores and more hyperthreads as well as support for itenium and virtualization.. but they also dot function anywhere near the same as a desktop cpu and none of the boards they work on have support for stuff like hydra/cfx/sli or physix.
Also server CPUs have error correction and error correcting ram. Just so your trading computer doesn't accidentally turn a 0 into a 1 and cause worldwide financial collapse.
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