Firstly mate, we all agree that AMD do give very compelling price to performance at the low end.
The problem here is that you are comparing a very highly overclocked FX 8320 to an IVY based XEON. There are higher performing Haswell based XEONs now and even with the hefty overclock AMD only gets a slight lead.
If I were building a server or a workstation and money mattered I would take both into consideration. Is that enough of an endorsement?
So logically these CPUs could quite easily cross paths. If I were streaming using Xsplit for example the AMD is the clear winner. I could do that using the Xeon too, as I count it as a 'other than gaming' use.
The Xeon has the advantage of being able to use ECC memory, which is vital for it's intended purpose. The FX 8320 does not have this. Then there is also the power consumption/thermals to consider. Do you honestly expect the FX 8320 with a massive overclock to survive as long as the Xeon? While you do state that you don't care about this arguement, other here do and you must respect that opinion.
I've had my 8320 going hard core for 18 months and no issues so far. Obviously I would down clock it to stock which would be fine. It costs £100. For the productivity the price is impossible to beat.
I could buy ten AMDs for the same price...
Please note, I did tell people to avoid and ignore that part of the thesis. Yet they have chosen not to. I've also not called any one stupid or retarded yet oddly, have been called both.
But I'm not mad.
I did mention that I kept the Intel over the AMD for its mere power use, but sadly no one seems to have read that far. Shame.
I do think that it is great that this kind of performance can be delivered by an FX 8320, but when looking at the big picture the Xeon still makes a lot of sense, even if it doesn't in your particular use case.
Guys we need to agree to disagree on this one, as at this point a mod will probably have to close this thread.
Actually dude as a matter of fact Xeons have been making less and less sense as the years roll by. They're over priced and usually splattered by their desktop substitutes (let's take into account the £4000 12 core and the 5960x, which demolishes it) so Intel have been bleeding their Xeons into unlocked desktop parts like the 3970x, 4960x Enterprise series. This is only to get the sales that they lose by over pricing their Xeons. It's the same with Nvidia. They were selling the Titan which is a Tesla into the desktop market trying to rack up more sales.
Every PC part you ever used is a server hand me down of sorts. That's just the nature of the industry I'm afraid.
As for locking the thread? why? are people not capable of reasoned discussion here then?
