The trick is the Xeons are an older generation and/or Engineering Samples rather than retail processors.
The result is more, slower threads.
For some workloads, that's a good trade-off. Probably not for videogames, though, where single-thread performance is still very important. Games haven't really utilized more than one CPU well until quite recently. Even a quad core is overkill.
The result is more, slower threads.
For some workloads, that's a good trade-off. Probably not for videogames, though, where single-thread performance is still very important. Games haven't really utilized more than one CPU well until quite recently. Even a quad core is overkill.