How good is a Xeon E5 1680 V2 compared to modern CPU's?

[Dr. Dro]

Super agreed! I also believe in the adage of that there is no bad hardware, just bad prices, although, for a gaming system (as OP implies), they will really be better off with a newer, even if lower end regular desktop chip.

W1zz's review of the i3-12100, for example, places it on a level that these CPUs can't even dream of achieving:

Cheers

 

[unwind-protect]

I didn't realize we are talking socket 2011 Xeons here, my bad. Now it depends on the board what features you get, e.g. registered RAM.

 

[dgianstefani]

Lack of AVX2 is a killer no matter what theoretical performance you could get with top tier cooling, motherboard and ram OC.

There is no universe where buying this chip and a newold motherboard makes sense over a 12100/13600 or a ryzen 5600.

 

[bobbybluz]

For those of us that bought high-end X79 hardware when it was new we've more than gotten our moneys worth out of it and anything now is a fun bonus. I started with a 3930K, moved on to a 4960X I bought off Craigslist for $50 then scored my first 1680 V2 off Ebay for around half of what I ended up selling the 4960X for there. I'm still using the same Asus Sabertooth X79 mobo I bought in 2012. I never dreamed I'd still be using it nearly 11 years later.

For doing audio production work it's perfect and is rock-solid stable running Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC. I can't say the same about what was a bleeding-edge PC I built in 2003; that thing was fairly useless by 2009. I still fire it up every summer to see if it still works.