Though Its a n00bish question I'vent found any clear answer anywhere even after long days of googling.
Recently I am Planning to Use a AMD Opteron Quad Core 2350 for my Home Lab.
I'll not run it as a Pro Server. rather I'll use it for Development Only.
It will have the following things
- 2 Instances of Apache Server (I'll Need this)
- 1 FTP server
- always running VNC
- MySQL, PostgreSQL
- I need very fast Compiler Performance
- I'll run Several Eclipse Driven Tools like VPUML, Zend IDE, Eclipse or may be net beans too
I'll also run a lot desktop Applications that every desktop user needs. Though this all can be ran smoothly with a Desktop Processor like Phenom X4 I want to use a Server Processor fro Greater performance.
My Question is Would a server processor really increase the performance ? if I run a lot of GUI Apps ? or it will decrease the performance ??
and Obviously there will not be heavyweight Mathematical Calculations. I am just fearing that a can a server processor afford GUI Apps better than Desktop processors ?