blackhawk2000

thanks for that runit3 ill have a look @ the 820 benches. would be nice if there was a universal listing for what cpu's can keep x gfx card fed

there is 2 vms with gpu pass through running windows 10 within the system feeding out to 2 sets of keyboard / mouse / monitor , the idea is condensing hardware down to 1 box to keep 2 people doing their day to day which includes gaming while also providing a redundant Nas solution. so the system will provide the same level of performance as a bare metal box give or take 1-2% for the extra overheads. i have used unRaid for this in the past the question isn't about is unRAID the best option.. the question thats being asked is about real noticable performance difference between the 2 cpu's in a gaming scenario being the fx 4130 and the E5520 xeon there is a moderate disparity in overall clock speed 2x the threads available, in certain games that can leverage the extra threads i assume despite the lower clock i should see a similar level of real world performance, however i dont have the xeons on hand to benchmark and quantify that. i was hopeing that someone might have a similar set of processors kicking around or have some numbers i havent come across on the internet to properly quantify the real world performance difference.

merged into op to make better sence of what im trying to achieve

Hi all, looking at building a unRAID box for multi player gaming on a budget. (for those that are unfamiliar with unRAID http://linustechtips...ming-build-log/ ) i have a existing quadcore fx 4130 system but it doesnt have enough threads to do this setup so im looking at a pair of E5520 xeons on a intel s5520sc with 48gb of ddr 3 1333 ecc memory (so split up: 4cores 8 threads 16gb ram R9 290 gpu for player 1 and 3 cores 6 threads 16bg ram r9 270x for player 2 leaving 1core 2 threads 16bg ram for the unraid os / nas) i have been looking around @ benchmarks but hard to get a accurate answer on this but do you think there will be a noticeable performance drop going from a fx4130 to the above mentioned setup in gaming? i know its kind of ambiguous question as would depend on how multi threaded the individual game title is etc. some bench marks such as the multicore geekbench 3 put them pretty close together but just trying to get some other opinions from people before buying and testing the older rig for myself. (eddited post to make less ambiguous) .