you notice the speed loss far less with some systems, such as mine, its a dual socket Xeon workstation, dual E5 Xeon 6-core's, 80.0 GB DDR3 ECC, GTX 1050 TI 4GB
I personally prefer AMD as well, and have a Phenom II X6 build with 3-way SLI in the other room, but with GTX 285s that suck power like a kid with soda. I got given this motherboard, and i work in a datacenter so Xeon chips are all over the place from retired servers, so i threw this thing togeather, its a monstrosity, the board is massive, and its sitting inside a massive full size leftover server tower.
This build uses a fraction of the power of the AMD system, mostly due to the videocard differences, GTX 285s are known to be thirsty by themselves, and it has 3 of the suckers in it with a 1KW power supply, dual pumps for the watercooling, and a raid system with SSDs and Rotating drives. I might as well have a second A/C unit running power wise. I was right about to build a new AMD platform, or rather upgrade the existing one with new CPU, MB, RAM, but this dual xeon board fell into my lap and now i dont plan to until i have real need.
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I personally prefer AMD as well, and have a Phenom II X6 build with 3-way SLI in the other room, but with GTX 285s that suck power like a kid with soda. I got given this motherboard, and i work in a datacenter so Xeon chips are all over the place from retired servers, so i threw this thing togeather, its a monstrosity, the board is massive, and its sitting inside a massive full size leftover server tower.
This build uses a fraction of the power of the AMD system, mostly due to the videocard differences, GTX 285s are known to be thirsty by themselves, and it has 3 of the suckers in it with a 1KW power supply, dual pumps for the watercooling, and a raid system with SSDs and Rotating drives. I might as well have a second A/C unit running power wise. I was right about to build a new AMD platform, or rather upgrade the existing one with new CPU, MB, RAM, but this dual xeon board fell into my lap and now i dont plan to until i have real need.
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