I'm a video editor and I actually do play games sometimes and afaik the dual Xeons is choking my 1060 like it's not that noticeable but it's definitely choking according to the stats. Also editing on the dual Xeon is just a bit exhausting, playback and effect analyzing are slow, rendering is fine tho.
I'm currently using a dual X5650 2.66ghz with 12c24t and people is saying those CPUs is ridiculously powerful when being OCed to 4Ghz. So I've trying to find a used EVGA Sr-2 for nearly a year now because it's literally finding an antique. But I'm getting my hope up since my friend knows this seller who has it and it'll cost me approx $250 to have it on my hand.
On the other hand, there are some people saying I can get a single 2011 CPU system under the same budget that will provide a better performance at base clock. And with my calculation, it will cost me $350 for and 8c16t E5 and a mobo.
I know a little about PC but nothing on how CPU works so I really need some help.
Just want to know if the Dual x5690 can handle single thread processes well, 1700-2000 single thread rating should be good enough for me. Since Premiere and most of the Editing software out there haven't utilized all of the multi cores yet.