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how many cores does your CPU have?

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This NAS awesomeness is similar to how gaming systems can eek out excellent performance from a closed, optimized environment.

PCs are the Wild West in comparison with a near infinite degree of variability and complexity as a result.
 
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COLGeek said:
This NAS awesomeness is similar to how gaming systems can eek out excellent performance from a closed, optimized environment.

PCs are the Wild West in comparison with a near infinite degree of variability and complexity as a result.
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So I guess it's similar to how games are optimized for consoles?
 
Well when you have a system doing ONE thing, pretty easy to leave out what you don't need.

Still running Windows on my 12100F, but I keep thinking more and more about switching it to Linux. Basically just needs a browser and a file system to act as an HTPC.
 
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Order 66 said:
So I guess it's similar to how games are optimized for consoles?
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Yep. That is what I said. When you control all the hardware, you can optimize usage. That is why it is almost silly when folks say "I want to build a system equivalent to a PS5 or XBox" and then are disappointed when they see the actual results. It is an apples and bananas comparison.
 
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punkncat said:
Just curious as to what manner of server, if you don't mind sharing? It would seem to me a better use case for the fastest/powerful CPU to be your main PC but, of course, I have no idea what you are doing with it...
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Was replacing a SNB era server box that had been in use for over a decade. Needed ECC (so I couldn't use anything else I had), M.2 slots and longevity as I don't like replacing hardware on something running 24/7 unless there's a failure. So sure the fastest CPU being in my primary box would be better, but that would just mean buying more hardware so wouldn't have helped.
 
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Eximo said:
Still running Windows on my 12100F, but I keep thinking more and more about switching it to Linux. Basically just needs a browser and a file system to act as an HTPC.
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I tend to use Windows Pro OS in my servers both for ease in remoting in to it as well as my comfort level with Windows as I am so familiar with it. I had a FreeNAS setup at one point and it worked very well until it didn't. Anything I did with that machine was a search on Google and do as the instructions said more so than actually knowing. The past couple of years I have been playing with Ubuntu as my Linux flavor of choice. I was going to migrate some office PC's over to it but I cannot get all the functionality I want that way alongside when one of the office folks mess it up I am clueless (as above) on how to un(mess) it.

My main (local) online storage right now is a Synology that I really don't care for at all.
 
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Basically what I have done as well. Just run Windows because it is easy, but really I am not doing any of the fancy HTPC stuff.

I understand Arch Linux supports Intel Arc out of the box, so was wanting to give that a try.
 
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That CPU wasn't available when I built my rig.
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that makes sense. Also, I know the 7950x3d has issues with games running on the cores that don't have the 3d cache, and the solution just seems to be to disable the cores without the 3d cache. wouldn't a better solution be to set the affinity for each game to the cores with the 3d cache, and let the other 8 do other non gaming tasks?
 
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that makes sense. Also, I know the 7950x3d has issues with games running on the cores that don't have the 3d cache, and the solution just seems to be to disable the cores without the 3d cache. wouldn't a better solution be to set the affinity for each game to the cores with the 3d cache, and let the other 8 do other non gaming tasks?
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I have never made my system sweat with any game or settings thrown at it. All at stock.
 
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The core count may not be so important. It's the CPU overall. The i5 13600K has 14. I'm pretty sure i don't "need" 14 cores, but that was the boy i wanted so i bought it.

At least in my case the number of cores wasn't important. But judging by the poll results, it's pretty high even though it's an i5.
 
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35below0 said:
The core count may not be so important. It's the CPU overall. The i5 13600K has 14. I'm pretty sure i don't "need" 14 cores, but that was the boy i wanted so i bought it.

At least in my case the number of cores wasn't important. But judging by the poll results, it's pretty high even though it's an i5.
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For me, I play certain games that are extremely CPU intensive (specifically Beamng.Drive, and UEBS2) so that's why I have an 8 core CPU.
 
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Order 66 said:
For me, I play certain games that are extremely CPU intensive (specifically Beamng.Drive, and UEBS2) so that's why I have an 8 core CPU.
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I was playing Factorio and Rimworld on a 3750K using the iGPU. It struggled a little bit when there was a ton of stuff going on. RimWorld not so much but Factorio, yes.
I wouldn't build steam engines because the darn steam kiled the performance. xD

I might have to try Beamng.Drive just to see how my new PC does.
 
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