Does the game have workstation pc?

[Anchoring Evil Hamster]

I saw an "X" look-alike case in the free-building mode, it has 9 disk slot, looks pretty like a workstation, but are there actual workstation cases in the game?
BTW I just watched a video about a workstation. It has 24 disk slot, 16 ram slot, and 2 cpus, (and pci slots, for gpu I guess). So it looks like it will be perfect for gaming, am I right?
(Maybe it's just too powerful for gaming xD)

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No there are no "Workstation" class systems in-game and the developers have told us there never will be either. HEDT & Desktop only.

[Askindale]

Originally posted by UncleGaygaygay:

I saw an "X" look-alike case in the free-building mode, it has 9 disk slot, looks pretty like a workstation, but are there actual workstation cases in the game?
BTW I just watched a video about a workstation. It has 24 disk slot, 16 ram slot, and 2 cpus, (and pci slots, for gpu I guess). So it looks like it will be perfect for gaming, am I right?
(Maybe it's just too powerful for gaming xD)

as for your question on the gaming performance of a workstation desktop; it could be a good gaming machine but the price to performance of the actual PC itself would be terrible. Gaming PCs usually have 1 CPU, 1 GPU and 2 sticks of RAM for dual channel memory (between 8-16GB being desired) and that's a good gaming setup. Using a workstation PC would arguably be a good gaming PC. However take what you saw for example 2 CPUs that immediately means unused cores that you never needed for playing games. the 16 RAM slots are certainly overkill for any video game. the reason for building the machine doesn't fit with the purpose of that machine.

[Mhill]

You do realise that X299 is actually a workstation platform? The HEDT segment for some years going back to X58 have been. This is why they have vastly more PCI_E lanes and 4 or more Multi GPU support, and upto 18core CPU's (Soon to be 22c), including Xeon support.

Today some boards still support upto 7 GPU's (obviously they'd have to be single slot waterblocked versions) But they exist....namely boards like the Asus WS Sage X299. and of course some have Dual CPU support.

Sure they get used by enthusiasts/benchmarkers and gamers with deep pockets (Not the Dual CPU boards though, as it would be pointless due to games and benchmarks not scaling beyond 1 CPU).

Gaming performance can be pretty superior on these platforms, unfortunately you need vastly superior cooling solutions to match gaming performance of more consumer based CPU's like the 9900K for example. As they tend to have much lower out of the box clockspeeds compared to most consumer variants.

Although this doesn't matter in most cases, since many ppl running systems like this for gaming are not using CPU bound resolutions anyway.

And i'm one of them :)

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Originally posted by Mhill:

You do realise that X299 is actually a workstation platform?

Actually you're a little confused there. I'll try to explain and help you understand: HEDT = High End Desktop Computer. They may seem like more exotic systems but HEDT systems are always "Uniprocessor" or single-socket systems, just like the normal "Desktop" category of computers. "Workstation" systems are completely different. "Workstation" systems are the dual-processor, 16+ ram slot computer systems. That's what the OP Was referring to here, -NOT- HEDT computers. There is a big difference in what "Workstation" means.
Both Intel's X299 platform and AMD's Threadripper X399 platforms are classified as "HEDT" by both Intel and AMD, and NOT "Workstation" class systems.

[Mhill]

Originally posted by Aquafawks:

Originally posted by Mhill:

You do realise that X299 is actually a workstation platform?

Actually you're a little confused there. I'll try to explain and help you understand: HEDT = High End Desktop Computer. They may seem like more exotic systems but HEDT systems are always "Uniprocessor" or single-socket systems, just like the normal "Desktop" category of computers. "Workstation" systems are completely different. "Workstation" systems are the dual-processor, 16+ ram slot computer systems. That's what the OP Was referring to here, -NOT- HEDT computers. There is a big difference in what "Workstation" means.
Both Intel's X299 platform and AMD's Threadripper X399 platforms are classified as "HEDT" by both Intel and AMD, and NOT "Workstation" class systems.

I do not need someone breaking down what the HEDT acronym means, your preaching to the choir here, but your on the wrong song. Your the one who is confused, HEDT covers many bases from gamers with deep pockets, enthusiast overclocker/benchmarkers and professionals with workstation demands.

You can type workstations in google and pretty much most sources will supply workstations with X299. I mean it's pretty common knowledge that X299 is a workstation board for the most part, it's just adopted by enthusiasts for different purposes.

Here i'll even supply a few links....

https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/workstation-computers/

https://www.dell.com/en-uk/work/shop/workstations/sc/workstations/precision-desktops

https://store.hp.com/UKStore/Merch/offer.aspx?p=b-z4-z6-z8

Here's an X299 that even has WS in it's damn name, do i need to go on?

https://www.asus.com/uk/Commercial-Servers-Workstations/WS-X299-PRO/

"ASUS 5-Way Optimisation makes your workstation smart. One click takes care of complex tuning, dynamically optimising essential aspects of the system to provide overclocking and cooling profiles that are tailored for your rig"

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Originally posted by Mhill:

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You can find as many "references" to "prove your point" as you like until the cows come home. Anyone's free to call any computer system anything they wish. That still does not change the fact that the official definition by Intel and AMD are that both X299 and X399 are "HEDT" systems.

It also won't change the fact that in the eyes of PCBS and the developers, X299 & X399 are allowed in game. Because those are actual computer systems that someone would concievably buy from a small mom`n`pop computer repair store like this game is simulating.

In the reference to "Actual workstation systems" that use dual processors: those will never be in the PCBS game. That's completely unrealistic as anyone buying those would be custom ordering them from any of the major OEM's.

[Mhill]

Originally posted by Aquafawks:

Originally posted by Mhill:

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You can find as many "references" to "prove your point" as you like until the cows come home. Anyone's free to call any computer system anything they wish. That still does not change the fact that the official definition by Intel and AMD are that both X299 and X399 are "HEDT" systems.

It also won't change the fact that in the eyes of PCBS and the developers, X299 & X399 are allowed in game. Because those are actual computer systems that someone would concievably buy from a small mom`n`pop computer repair store like this game is simulating.

In the reference to "Actual workstation systems" that use dual processors: those will never be in the PCBS game. That's completely unrealistic as anyone buying those would be custom ordering them from any of the major OEM's.

Dual CPU motherboards wouldn't be in the game obviously, but i wasn't talking about ingame content. I was just trying to explain that HEDT has many facets to what it was some years back. It seem to me that your dead set on defining a workstation as a seperate entity to HEDT. While this used to be true, it's isn't as black and white as that now.

Quite frankly, a system with multi cores, lots of ram/ GPU horsepower and installation of professional software can be a workstation. Intel/AMD's clarification on HEDT will be different, since they want business' to continue buying $10,000 Xeons etc...

Lets just end this on saying we're both correct. I got games to play....