I'm going to buy a server platform from Dell and use it as a PC with Vista, and of course will add a high-end Graphics card to the system. I'm getting it with the following CPU:
Quad Core Intel(r) Xeon(r) X3230, 2.66GHz, 8MB Cache, 1066MHz
FSB
Is that considered a good CPU and would Vista be able to utilize the quad core technology in it?
Have you consider the Q6600? as an alternative...or since you want to game on this PC, I'll say go for the E8400 or the higher end of this....because Duo Core is still faster at gaming than Quad. Not a lot of games utilized more than two cores yet. Only a handful that I know of, including Flightsim X and Crysis.
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