Xeons for gaming?

[HumbleMobo]

I as gonna build a gaming rig with an AMD 8350 but then I saw Xeons for like 150$ but they are clocked at 3.1 ghz and thats dog poo if you ask me. Can you game on a Xeon, can you over clock it and what is the cheapest model?  Yes I know they are meant for servers, multi threaded tasks and multi core tasks.

[HumbleMobo]

I know you can buy an intel I think it's called a Xeon companion and that adds 15 cores and it plugs into your PCI slots but those are processing LARGE amounts of data.

[themaniac]

xeons do just as well as i5's/i7's for gaming and if its for gaming dont go amd

[Morgan MLGman]

Xeon E3-1231 v3 is one of the best price/performance CPUs from Intel, check it out, it's good for gaming despite being clocked @ 3,4 with boost to 3,8 ghz

[Chugle]

1231v3

[OAcesync]

Clock speed doesn't matter that much Intel Xeon 1231v3 is a great price to performance CPU that's basically a non OC i7

[JerkyMcDilerino]

 Can you game on a Xeon

Yes

 

can you over clock it

Nope

 

 what is the cheapest model?

If you are not going to overclock your CPU and looking for CPU that offer i5 performance with i7 hyperthreading than Xeon E3-1231V3.

[QueenDemetria]

I as gonna build a gaming rig with an AMD 8350 but then I saw Xeons for like 150$ but they are clocked at 3.1 ghz and thats dog poo if you ask me. Can you game on a Xeon, can you over clock it and what is the cheapest model?  Yes I know they are meant for servers, multi threaded tasks and multi core tasks.

Can you game on a Xeon? Yes, its not like they aren't capable of gaming. Are they the best choice for gaming? Far from it. 

 

If you are building a gaming rig, go with an i series intel processor, or if you really want AMD go with FX(or Athlon on a budget).

[Lotus]

It depends on the Xeon. Xeon is just a family of CPUs like Core and there's a large difference between an i3 and an i7. Some Xeons are geared for power efficiency and have lower frequencies, but MUCH lower power usage. Others are basically just core series CPUs with different (or no) iGPUs.'

 

The Xeon E3-1231 v3 is the CPU you want. It's a locked i7 without an iGPU. Yes the frequency is lower than an FX-8350, but the architecture has so much higher IPC (instructions per clock) that's it's significantly more powerful in single-threaded performance (and therefore WAY better for gaming) and it's also more powerful even in multi-threaded performance, so basically it's better all around. Plus you can pair it with a cheap mobo and use the stock heatsink so the end platform price is about the same. Basically, if you need high multi-threaded performance but also want to game, it's the best budget friendly solution.

[Sir Asvald]

I as gonna build a gaming rig with an AMD 8350 but then I saw Xeons for like 150$ but they are clocked at 3.1 ghz and thats dog poo if you ask me. Can you game on a Xeon, can you over clock it and what is the cheapest model?  Yes I know they are meant for servers, multi threaded tasks and multi core tasks.

Xeons are not just for Servers, Used for Workstations as well. 

 

You could overclock Xeons, and unlocked CPUs. Using the BLCK Multiplier in the bios, but you won't get any high "overclocks"

[Sir Asvald]

Yes

 

Nope

 

If you are not going to overclock your CPU and looking for CPU that offer i5 performance with i7 hyperthreading than Xeon E3-1231V3.

You can do a bit of an overclock through the BLCK multiplier through the bios. 

[79 Potatoes]

I know you can buy an intel I think it's called a Xeon companion and that adds 15 cores and it plugs into your PCI slots but those are processing LARGE amounts of data.

You're talking about a coprocessor? That's useless for gaming...

[JerkyMcDilerino]

You can do a bit of an overclock through the BLCK multiplier through the bios. 

But the performance after overclock not going to be great. 

[HumbleMobo]

Can you game on a Xeon? Yes, its not like they aren't capable of gaming. Are they the best choice for gaming? Far from it. 

 

If you are building a gaming rig, go with an i series intel processor, or if you really want AMD go with FX(or Athlon on a budget).

I actually found I could build a rig for 275$ that could handle AAA titles on low-med settings wit an X4 860K

[HumbleMobo]

You're talking about a coprocessor? That's useless for gaming...

I know, that's what I said they are Xeon Phi's

[HumbleMobo]

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How about this?

[Lotus]

Can you game on a Xeon? Yes, its not like they aren't capable of gaming. Are they the best choice for gaming? Far from it. 

 

If you are building a gaming rig, go with an i series intel processor, or if you really want AMD go with FX(or Athlon on a budget).

Xeons can be the best choice if you're on a budget and want multi-threaded performance too. Not all Xeons are the lower frequency but high power efficiency server CPUs. You just have to be careful in which one you pick. Xeon is a wide family of products across multiple sockets.

 

 

You can do a bit of an overclock through the BLCK multiplier through the bios. 

You really don't want to do that on haswell CPUs though. The PCIe lanes are tied to the baseclock and so anything other than a BCLK of 100 can lead to instabilty. The best you can get away with is around 105, but that's pushing it and still usually unstable. Not worth the tiny performance increase. Skylake untied the PCIe lanes from the baseclock so this should be coming back when we get more Skylake CPUs.

[Lotus]

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How about this?

Nope. Might as well get an i5 for that price. That's just a 4 core CPU without hyper threading.

 

Again, the 1231 V3 is what you're looking for.

[MahtXL]

 if its for gaming do go amd

Fixed that fanboy comment for ya. Try harder next time to troll. Gaming (multi threaded apps) is amds strong suit. and dx 12 is going to make even the now aging fx chips kick some butt once again.

[79 Potatoes]

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How about this?

Get an i5 4440/4460/4590 that xeon has no HT, so basically an i5 in performance

Unless you meant the 1230

[MahtXL]

Can you game on a Xeon? Yes, its not like they aren't capable of gaming. Are they the best choice for gaming? Far from it. 

 

If you are building a gaming rig, go with an i series intel processor, or if you really want AMD go with FX(or Athlon on a budget).

This man knows whats up and how to recommend products equally. Cheers for not just picking one side and blindly trashing the other. I like what you got goin on.

[Lotus]

Fixed that fanboy comment for ya. Try harder next time to troll. Gaming (multi threaded apps) is amds strong suit. and dx 12 is going to make even the now aging fx chips kick some butt once again.

Gaming isn't fully multi-threaded. Coding for multi-threaded workloads is difficult at the best of times, and the performance overhead of allocating workloads in real-time applications like gaming is quite ridiculous. Games are still largely limited by single-threaded performance, with only a few able to take advantage of more than 2 threads. Even if the game starts using more threads, due to the performance overhead, there's still no guarantee of it "going faster" even if it's using more cpu horsepower.

 

That's why an Intel i5 is currently the go-to CPU for gaming. Because games wont use more than the i5's 4 cores, and the i5 still has the great single-threaded performance that comes with Intel's architecture.

[themaniac]

Fixed that fanboy comment for ya. Try harder next time to troll. Gaming (multi threaded apps) is amds strong suit. and dx 12 is going to make even the now aging fx chips kick some butt once again.

what ever you say fanboy i just go by fact

[Bensemus]

what ever you say fanboy i just go by fact

Other DX12 games might be different but going by Ashes of the Singularity it shows the same thing as  DX11. Stronger cores > more cores

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/432063-first-directx-12-game-benchmarked-update-2-more-benchmarks/

[Duganator9]

You can game on a xeon, but I wouldn't really recommend it.  The similar specced i5/i7 will always win in gaming because of higher clock speeds.  In games that only support 2 cores it will certainly make a big difference.