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How do Xeon processors differ from regular processors?

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Yes I know that Xeons are meant for server use, require different motherboards and you can have more than one of them in a box. But technically how is a Xeon processor itself different from a regular core 2 processor?

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The answer is that it's not very different. It has a larger cache and is not explicitly crippled to prevent it working in multiprocessor systems. Xeons also have support for ECC memory, which is not normally supported on consumer CPU chips. Otherwis…

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