Incremental Improvement
Is likely killing them. Ive very recently started using old(er) Xeon CPUs for my gaming rigs because they are equally as powerful (if not slightly more) than newer desktop CPUs.
E.g. I have an Xeon X5690 in my gaming machine. Got it off eBay for £30. Shoved it in a Dell Precision T3500 (eBay £50) with 16GB RAM that I had lying around (Salvaged from stuff being thrown out somewhere).
Paid full whack for a GTX760 and I have a very capable gaming machine for less than 300 quid.
At work I have a similar machine with an i7 4770k in it and the same graphics card and the Xeon machine benchmarks slightly better. Which is crazy because the X5690 is nearly 5 years old.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
