Is there a reason why gamers don't use server CPUs like AMD Naples with 32 cores?

[Tyler Gollihugh]

Same reason we don't use diesels for race cars. Sure it can be done but it's simply not an efficient way to make use of that type of power.

 

[Tyler Gollihugh]

Just as 1200lbs of torque does a Miata little good, a 296583906283906829034689023869023-core Xeon that costs as much as a used car does a gaming rig little good. Two main words to keep in mind here are "diminishing returns" ... once you go over a certain # of cores you're spending lots of money for marginal/no gains or perhaps even performance loss

 

[Tayler Vest]

pcie connectivity varies between boards, expensive(to buy run and maintain), proprietary board layouts that may or may not fit in a gaming case, most multipliers are locked, and games dont scale well past 4 threads

 

[Brooks Michael]

Most games are run by the graphics card anyway... unless you are so low end that you bottleneck. You don't need to spend a lot on a million cores when the main portion of work is on the graphics card.

 

[Liam Phillips]

There designed to work in servers and henceforth they don't work well in games

 

[Bruno Buss]

Because these CPU's have lower clock speeds. Gaming usually uses around 2-4 cores if you're lucky. Any more and it just can't utilise all the threads. Server CPU's are a bit slower but have a lot more cores.

 

[Jesse Krauss]

IPC and GHz is what matters in gaming.

 

[Timmay Lwig]

Cost honestly but if u really want to see the difference look at a quad core 7700 vs a 6 core 5820 best way to do it

 

[Mangeac Valentin]

Server CPUs are not good for gaming or programming. The clock of the first core is very important and how caches is spread around.

 

[Steve Brighty]

Because games at the most use 8 cored tops no more it would be a waste

 

[Devi Prasad]

Amd nipples

 

[Rūdolfs Jorens Baltiņš-Kļava]

Because most games uses 4 cores at top, server CPUs are huge and they are different platform, well you can run win server or LINUX(most likely linux) on it, but it won't have the happy graphics card you see on your gaming PC

 

[Francis Jay Abordo]

Cause games ussually only use one core...

 

[Christian Luis Miguel Lomibao]

... I dont know, is it because its for a server and not for gaming? I mean, not like motherboards with the chipset for that cpu would fit your case since, server mobos are more complex and complicated, right?

 

[Sander Westerberg]

Because games won't utilize more than 4 cores at best

 

[Yngve Kristiansen]

low Hz pr core and a lot of unused cores in gaming. you oney use a fraction of the CPU's potensial in gaming.

 

[Chrishna Crawford]

If you can ask the question then you must know why, don't you?

 

[Christopher F. Wilson]

i have been gaming on dual CPU systems since 1996, and haven't really had any issues. started with dual Pentium Pro 180's, P3 866, p3 1100, and dozen or so dual Xeon system.
all you need to do is pair it with a good gpu