What Do I Do? Trade My Pc For A Server!!??

[7angofragger]

I am an extreme gamer! My current system is an ASRock 939Dual-SATAII, AMD 4000+, 1GB DDR400, and an ATI X1900AIW. My friend offered me his server (1 Xeon 2.80GHz Nocona, 2x 512MB DDR2 400 DC, 1 PCI x16, 1 PCI x1, 3 PCI, 2 DVD-RW's, and 2x 80GB WD SATAII RAID), and a modded xbox for my pc. I would have $220 bucks for christmas. Would it be better for me to just trade him and put an X1950PRO in it? Would it be faster?

[rond36]

Hello 7angofragger, and welcome to The PC Guide Forums!

Don't trade. Your PC is much better then what he wants to trade you.

What motherboard is in the workstation/server?

The Xeon 2.80GHz Nocona is the slowest in that series (2.8GHz-3.6GHz) with a 800MHz FSB and 1MB L2 cache.

If it had a single 3.8 Irwindale it would be almost as fast as your AMD 4000+.

Will the motherboard support Irwindale Xeon CPUs 800MHz FSB and 2MB L2 cache

A single Xeon 2.80GHz Nocona 800MHz FSB and 1MB L2 cache = a P4 2.80GHz Presscott core 800MHz FSB and 1MB L2 cache.

Your CPU is much faster and you wouldn't see a significant performance advantage until you add a second CPU.

Nocona core Xeon CPUs are getting hard to find and Intel made 2 different 2.8GHz Nocona CPUs DO stepping and EO stepping and when adding a second CPU the stepping of the CPUs must match.

Most games will not use the second CPU so you would more or less be extreme gaming with a 2.8GHz P4, that doesn't sound very extreme to me LOL.

If it had a couple of 3.8 GHz Irwindale CPUs it might be worth the trade.