Server desktop computer = KING of gaming ?

[holycpu]

ok, this is what my friend said.

he can make a server computer to be the king of gaming.

Stuff include......

2 CPU (from INTEL) + one motherboard + decent video card (lets say 9800 pro) + etc....

CPU each cost about hmm 150-200.

No OCing in this computer

This computer (according to HIM) will be able to play 5 games at the same time and it gives 40-50 FPS in average with MAX SETTING in games like HL2, DOOM 3, WoW, GW, BF2, etc etc.

Is this true?

 

[Vegitto]

No, it's not. Maybe if you had an 8-way, dual core Opteron rig...

 

[holycpu]

Originally posted by: Vegitto
No, it's not. Maybe if you had an 8-way, dual core Opteron rig...

ok, what is this 8 way, dual-core opteron rig? how can this rig be good in gaming?

 

[Vegitto]

Well, it's got a whopping total of 16 cores, and costs more than your house. And that's not an insult.

 

[biostud]

Originally posted by: holycpu
ok, this is what my friend said.

he can make a server computer to be the king of gaming.

Stuff include......

2 CPU (from INTEL) + one motherboard + decent video card (lets say 9800 pro) + etc....

CPU each cost about hmm 150-200.

No OCing in this computer

This computer (according to HIM) will be able to play 5 games at the same time and it gives 40-50 FPS in average with MAX SETTING in games like HL2, DOOM 3, WoW, GW, BF2, etc etc.

Is this true?

LOL, no he must have smoked something.
The videocard can't even run Doom III alone on highest settings.

 

[Vegitto]

Ooch, the videocard. If you plan on such a rig, be sure to include ATi's Crossfire or nVidia's SLI.

 

[sangyup81]

multiple cpus but still only 1 video card

 

[ryanv12]

Well, I could understand 2 CPUs on a SLI motherboard with two 6800's in non-sli mode powering 2 different monitors. Essentially then, it's two seperate computers though

 

[MDme]

He is either smoking something OR he is not your friend OR he could be PORKSTER.

 

[The Pentium Guy]

Could be the latter

 

[Continuity27]

Originally posted by: MDme
He is either smoking something OR he is not your friend OR he could be PORKSTER.

NOOOOOOOOO!

 

[theMan]

thats hilarious, maybe if there was at least a decent video card, maybe, and 4way quad opterons, it could. but with a 9800pro? wtf is he smoking. if you could find a mobo that had 4 pcie/agp slots, it would work. but WAAY to expensive.

 

[SonicIce]

Originally posted by: holycpu
ok, this is what my friend said.

he can make a server computer to be the king of gaming.

Stuff include......

2 CPU (from INTEL) + one motherboard + decent video card (lets say 9800 pro) + etc....

CPU each cost about hmm 150-200.

No OCing in this computer

This computer (according to HIM) will be able to play 5 games at the same time and it gives 40-50 FPS in average with MAX SETTING in games like HL2, DOOM 3, WoW, GW, BF2, etc etc.

Is this true?

I love playing 5 games at the same time! It's 5 times as fun! Anyways if he's talking about running 4 games in the backround while playing a 5th, maybe.. I dunno. I think you'd need more than a dual xeon rig for that.

 

[theMan]

you could do it with 5 video cards, and 5 monitors, but more than 2 xeons would be needed.

 

[Rock Hydra]

Originally posted by: SonicIce

Originally posted by: holycpu
ok, this is what my friend said.

he can make a server computer to be the king of gaming.

Stuff include......

2 CPU (from INTEL) + one motherboard + decent video card (lets say 9800 pro) + etc....

CPU each cost about hmm 150-200.

No OCing in this computer

This computer (according to HIM) will be able to play 5 games at the same time and it gives 40-50 FPS in average with MAX SETTING in games like HL2, DOOM 3, WoW, GW, BF2, etc etc.

Is this true?

I love playing 5 games at the same time! It's 5 times as fun! Anyways if he's talking about running 4 games in the backround while playing a 5th, maybe.. I dunno. I think you'd need more than a dual xeon rig for that.

Tell your friend that what he needs to do is to take every computer he has, and all his stuff and pack it up in a nice box. Chuck said box out the window and never touch another computer again.

 

[jose]

It's confirmed, your friend is an idiot..

What's he's putting together would only be a "Serf of gaming"... maybe "Vassle" at best...

 

[Sahakiel]

It might be possible if he had a better video card, loads of RAM, and four games were minimized in the background. WoW might be able to run easily in the foreground, but the rest may be problematic.

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: holycpu
ok, this is what my friend said.

he can make a server computer to be the king of gaming.

Stuff include......

2 CPU (from INTEL) + one motherboard + decent video card (lets say 9800 pro) + etc....

CPU each cost about hmm 150-200.

No OCing in this computer

This computer (according to HIM) will be able to play 5 games at the same time and it gives 40-50 FPS in average with MAX SETTING in games like HL2, DOOM 3, WoW, GW, BF2, etc etc.

Is this true?

yes, it is true your friend is an idiot

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Originally posted by: holycpu
ok, this is what my friend said.

he can make a server computer to be the king of gaming.

Stuff include......

2 CPU (from INTEL) + one motherboard + decent video card (lets say 9800 pro) + etc....

CPU each cost about hmm 150-200.

No OCing in this computer

This computer (according to HIM) will be able to play 5 games at the same time and it gives 40-50 FPS in average with MAX SETTING in games like HL2, DOOM 3, WoW, GW, BF2, etc etc.

Is this true?

No, in order to be "king of gaming" the computer would need more GPU power than CPU power. While the 2 CPU setup would imrpove multitasking and allow for more games to be run at the same time, you wouldn't have great frame rates because the 9800 is SLOW. When an X800XT is easily twice as fast, you can then even have an even faster 6800 Ultra and put two of them together in SLI...

And right now the only tried and true available SLI platform is the nForce 4 SLI for AMD CPUs. Of which an FX55 would be the fastest gaming processor for such a system. However an X2 would be better for running more than one game, granted I don't see how you could hope to play more than 2 games at the same time, and more than 1 game if it is an action/FPS...

 

[imported_Kensai]

You'd need a quad, dual-core Opteron system with at least 2 high end graphics cards per game, as of now, very few computers can run Doom 3 at maxed out settings at the "Ultra" setting.
Of course you'd need something like 8GB+ of ram, etc. etc.

 

[Jeff7181]

Kick him in the shin and call him a moron.

 

[Leper Messiah]

lol. So does that make my system at least a duke, or earl of gaming? Why TF would you pick an intel proc for gaming anyways? Why TF woud you want to run 5 games at once, anyways?

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: L3p3rM355i4h
lol. So does that make my system at least a duke, or earl of gaming? Why TF would you pick an intel proc for gaming anyways? Why TF woud you want to run 5 games at once, anyways?

If you were as uber 7337 as his friend and could build a system like that... then you'd KNOW why you want to run 5 games at once...

 

[Diogenes2]

ok, like this is what my friend said, like wow man, like I mean, like I can make this, like super gaming rig, like what you do is like plug all this stuff in .. etc. etc. etc...

:roll:

The ' playing 5 games at once ', is the most intriguing part of this thread. I'm really curious about what 5 games they might be...

How old is your friend, by the way?

 

[aka1nas]

Maybe they mean running 4 dedicated servers and playing 1 game at the same time? That isn't completely unfeasible with enough CPUs and RAM.