Any downside to using a x3 Xeon processor instead of q9?

[boe]

Is there a difference between the xeon x3 and the regular Q9550 as far as motherboard or memory compatability? I'm thinking of getting Gigabyte GA-X48T-DQ6. I can't find the Q9550 anywhere so I was thinking of getting the x3360.

Thanks

 

[craigo]

That will work no worries

 

[boe]

Thanks - I don't mean to seem like a jerk but are you 100% sure that CPU will work with that motherboard?

Thanks for your help.

 

[Fitseries3]

xeons are actually better chips than the core 2's.

 

[btarunr]

No SSE4.1 instruction sets with the Xeon X3xxx

 

[boe]

No SSE4.1 instruction sets with the Xeon X3xxx

Thanks - can you tell me what that means in terms of performance or functionality?


These guys seem to think it does

http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Xeon/Intel-Xeon X3360 - EU80569KJ073N (BX80569X3360).html

http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cach...4.1+x3360&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=us&lr=lang_en

 

[btarunr]

Thanks - can you tell me what that means in terms of performance or functionality?

SSE4 brings with it a set of SIMD instructions. 3D API's such as Direct3D, future versions of Adobe Photoshop and several scientific applications keep close association with the SSE instruction sets and update each time a new set comes out. SSE in lay-man terms, 'speeds-up' math processing many fold. Game engines utilise processor instruction sets for their computation and their developers ensure they're up-to-date. For example, the Doom 3 engine could utilise SSE3 which was very new at the time when Doom 3 came out. The fact that you don't have a certain set doesn't mean the game engine won't work, just that it wont benefit from faster math processing. For example, Doom 3 on a AMD K7 will utilise only SSE and MMX for SIMD processing (because SSE2, SSE3 aren't there on K7).