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I am considering buying an RTX 2070 or RTX 2070 super, but my CPU is an intel Xeon E5-2623 v3 at 3 GHz. According to https://pc-builds.com/calculator/ this will result in a bottleneck. However this only allows me to put one CPU into the calculator. Would the bottleneck be helped at all when using two CPU's?

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3 minutes ago, Do51o said:

Xeon E5-2623 v3

Never use the bogus bottleneck calculator. However, what you've got is a low clocked Haswell Xeon, and when it comes to modern gaming, it sucks. A second CPU doesn't help

 

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In certain heavily multithreaded games it might help going from 4c/8t to 8c/16t. However fundamentally the bottleneck is caused by the older CPU architecture, lower clock speeds and memory bandwith. Adding cores might help a little here and there, but it's not going to resolve the bottleneck.

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That's a low powered xeon. Probably the same speed as a i5 2400.

Dual CPU won't help at all with games, which only use 4 cores at a time.

So a higher clock cpu would be better.

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