Will this bottleneck 1080ti?

[Marie Rose]

I play CS2 720p low, BF V 1080p High. Looking at 12400f vs E5 2697A V4 with a 1080ti. Both should not bottleneck the GPU right? I play cs2 720p low. This would become a LAN pc for parties.

Links to my aliexpress cart parts:

Intel Xeon E5 2697A V4 E5-2697AV4 processor 2.6GHz 40M 16-Core 32-Thread 145W 14nm LGA 2011-3 CPU - AliExpress
MACHINIST RS9 X99 Motherboard Support Xeon E5 V3 V4 LGA 2011-3 CPU Processor DDR4 RAM Four Channel and SATA PCI-E M.2 Slot - AliExpress
Kllisre RAM DDR4 8GB 16GB Memory 2666MHz 3200MHz Desktop Dimm High Compatible - AliExpress  DDR4 8GB 2666 X 4PCS

VS Much more expensive 12400f, ddr5 6800mhz 2 x 16gb, ASRock B760M PG Riptide.
 

[emosun]

don't buy computer parts from ali express , unless you don't care if they are used and don't function

[8tg]

11 minutes ago, emosun said:

don't buy computer parts from ali express , unless you don't care if they are used and don't function

Ah yes, as opposed to all those new e5 2697v4’s still on store shelves at your local microcenter.

[thekingofmonks]

You want to get at least Coffee Lake or Zen 2 for these games. Forget Broadwell.

[emosun]

1 minute ago, 8tg said:

Ah yes, as opposed to all those new e5 2697v4’s still on store shelves at your local microcenter.

well i'd sooner buy nothing than send money into the abyss

[Marie Rose]

13 minutes ago, emosun said:

don't buy computer parts from ali express , unless you don't care if they are used and don't function

I know this, used the site for 8 years. Its my guilty pleasure. I have always gotten my refund if something has not worked, be it a desktop, cpu or a gpu so far.

[8tg]

16 minutes ago, Marie Rose said:

I play CS2 720p low, BF V 1080p High. Looking at 12400f vs E5 2697A V4 with a 1080ti. Both should not bottleneck the GPU right? I play cs2 720p low. This would become a LAN pc for parties.

Links to my aliexpress cart parts:

Intel Xeon E5 2697A V4 E5-2697AV4 processor 2.6GHz 40M 16-Core 32-Thread 145W 14nm LGA 2011-3 CPU - AliExpress
MACHINIST RS9 X99 Motherboard Support Xeon E5 V3 V4 LGA 2011-3 CPU Processor DDR4 RAM Four Channel and SATA PCI-E M.2 Slot - AliExpress
Kllisre RAM DDR4 8GB 16GB Memory 2666MHz 3200MHz Desktop Dimm High Compatible - AliExpress  DDR4 8GB 2666 X 4PCS

VS Much more expensive 12400f, ddr5 6800mhz 2 x 16gb, ASRock B760M PG Riptide.
 

Neither will bottleneck a 1080ti, though they’re both very different platforms with entirely different ideal use cases. Old high end xeons are great if you need really good multicore performance on a budget. That’s not gaming for the most part, a few fast cores will do far better.

If you’re just trying to do something on the cheap to get those relatively light games running well, and you already have a 1080ti to work with, low end modern stuff or slightly older consumer high end will do fine.

ie 12400F but on a b660 ddr4 board, shouldn’t cost nearly as much as going with 32gb of ddr5 on b760

Or go older, an i5 11400f on b560, etc, you can keep going back. The 1080ti was at one point commonly paired with the i7 7700K, 4c/8t now on par with even the i3 12100

[Marie Rose]

Just now, 8tg said:

Neither will bottleneck a 1080ti, though they’re both very different platforms with entirely different ideal use cases. Old high end xeons are great if you need really good multicore performance on a budget. That’s not gaming for the most part, a few fast cores will do far better.

If you’re just trying to do something on the cheap to get those relatively light games running well, and you already have a 1080ti to work with, low end modern stuff or slightly older consumer high end will do fine.

ie 12400F but on a b660 ddr4 board, shouldn’t cost nearly as much as going with 32gb of ddr5 on b760

Or go older, an i5 11400f on b560, etc, you can keep going back. The 1080ti was at one point commonly paired with the i7 7700K, 4c/8t now on par with even the i3 12100

I own the ddr5 ram and a lga 1700 cooler already so. The chinese build would cost 120e while buying 12400f is 150e and mobo is 150e so 300e total.
then again if I pay for the newer system I get somewhat of a upgrade path unlike the xeon but the thing here is I will be using the pc like 10 times max per year since it will be only for LAN parties and such so I dont know If I should invest so heavily on it.

[8tg]

5 minutes ago, Marie Rose said:

I own the ddr5 ram and a lga 1700 cooler already so. The chinese build would cost 120e while buying 12400f is 150e and mobo is 150e so 300e total.
then again if I pay for the newer system I get somewhat of a upgrade path unlike the xeon but the thing here is I will be using the pc like 10 times max per year since it will be only for LAN parties and such so I dont know If I should invest so heavily on it.

Sell the ddr5 and buy an old coffee lake system or something, if this is just a secondary build.

X99 is not the way to go for a cheap gaming pc, it was some years ago, but you’d be far better off with even something like an i5 8400 on H310