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Re:Why your next home computer should be an old Xeon worksta... by DCKing on Sunday July 03, 2022 @09:19AM (#31967510)
Yeah I'm not saying that many cores aren't useful for workstation workloads, but nearly everyone still shouldn't buy these for their primary workstation. If you specifically need to run a lot of VMs or run massively parallel computation, most folks still would probably be better off getting a homelab server to run them instead of running them from your workstation directly.
Re:Why your next home computer should be an old Xeon worksta... by water8 on Sunday July 03, 2022 @09:47AM (#31967665)
Agreed personally I find a 5 GHz processor much snappier than a computer with 2.5ghz clock speeds. But that’s also part of DDR4 and other improvements between now and then. It’s not like we’re comparing them to essentially 5/6 generation intel core i7 chips