What's the deal playing Games on Xeons?

yogurt_21 · Jul 21, 2015

Pure gaming or cost concerned= i5 + Geforce/Radeon
Home Multi Tasking, occasional advanced task + Gaming= i7 + Geforce/Radeon
CAD, Rendering, Graphic Design, etc + Occasional Gaming = Xeon + Quadro/Firepro
Occasional CAD, Rendering, Graphic Design, etc + Hardcore Gaming = Xeon + Geforce/Radeon
Full time CAD, Rendering, Graphic Design, etc + Hardcore Gaming = 2 rigs

newtekie1 · Jul 21, 2015

theonedub said:
I thought that was the case, too. Yet a couple days ago I was on OCN looking at the Xeon threads (curious after all the Xeon talk in the WCG forums) and stumbled on this thread:

http://www.overclock.net/t/1564465/psa-unlocked-8core-for-x79-if-you-cared/0_50

Apparently there are E5 series Xeons on LGA 2011/X79 that have unlocked multipliers and people are running them at 4.4ghz+ (and some even breaking 5ghz). Sneaky little perk of X79- just have to wait until the big chips take a dip in pricing like the 1366 Xeons have recently

Yeah, but everywhere I can find that particular Xeon for sale it is $1,500+. Might as well just spend $1,000 on a 5960x...The left over $500 will buy me a decent motherboard and a 16GB kit of DDR4.

Ebo · Jul 21, 2015

The X79 platform and with a Xeon still packs one hell of a punch. Where I live in Europe people just wont get rid of them execpt you pay big money, like almost a X99/Hasswell-E, because the difference is close to nothing.

BTW I could shrow in a I7-5820K also.

Caring1 · Jul 21, 2015

FreedomEclipse said:
what you want is one of these for gaming

It will improve your reaction speed more than 10 fold i shit you not.

I see they haven't updated the listings and included the 20 core version yet.

tabascosauz · Jul 21, 2015

Ahhzz said:
To slightly side-step, and not being sure of the exact corollary, several years back, I built a system for me based on the AMD Opteron (a 185 Denmark, if I remember right), and was able to overclock it a good bit. The nice thing about the Opties was the stability. That thing was rock solid, and never had a penny's problem with it. The Opty and the Xeon are supposed to be business class, so they are a bit more exacting in their standards. I thought of it kind of like buying a Honda vs a Fiat. I might find a faster Fiat, but the Honda was going to keep going a lot longer with less issue.

Just my 2 pence

Honda vs. Fiat...

Higher E5s and E7 just about cost as much as a few-years-old Honda Civic

Ahhzz · Jul 21, 2015

tabascosauz said:
Honda vs. Fiat...

Higher E5s and E7 just about cost as much as a few-years-old Honda Civic

lol yeah, but 5 more years and that Civic will still be worth almost that much. Can you say as much?

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