First Computer Upgrade For Gaming

OmegaGrayKnight · April 12, 2015

i am upgrading my dell precision 690 workstation that i just bought from my company. the parts that i am currently putting in it is 2 xeon 5355 quad core, 250gb samsung ssd 850 and ddr2 16gb ram. i am waiting for the 2 xeon 5355 processors to arrive. i plan on buying the gtx 980 graphics card a few months from now. but i hope that the system with the upgrades can run that gpu. and it came with a 750 power supply.

just wondering what other people think about this upgrade?

TheSLSAMG · April 12, 2015

I think that it's going to be a bottleneck, but given you upgrade it sooner or later, you will be fine. You're looking at a CPU setup that is a little less powerful than an FX 8350 from my knowledge.

Aniallation · April 12, 2015

i am upgrading my dell precision 690 workstation that i just bought from my company. the parts that i am currently putting in it is 2 xeon 5355 quad core, 250gb samsung ssd 850 and ddr2 16gb ram. i am waiting for the 2 xeon 5355 processors to arrive. i plan on buying the gtx 980 graphics card a few months from now. but i hope that the system with the upgrades can run that gpu. and it came with a 750 power supply.

just wondering what other people think about this upgrade?

In games that are well-optimized for systems with many cores (newer AAA titles, generally games that run well on AMD) then you'll be fine. However games that are heavily single threaded will struggle and heavily bottleneck that 980.

With two of those Xeons, you'll be getting around the same CPU performance as the FX-8150.