Would my xeon bottleneck a new 1080/1070

[online_olympian]

xeon 2670 runs at 3.0 ghz on all 8 cores and 16 threads, 20mb cache. turbos to 3.3 on 1/2 core/thread

[Bananasplit_00]

nope thats fine im pretty sure

[Guest]

I am not 100% Sure but i can't be, i think it will bottleneck a little bit especially with the 1080!

[derpy_epic_minecraftboy_XD]

Nope, I use my intel core duo with my iris SLI setup and it works like a charm! Counter strike at 30fps, league at 25!

[Ophidio]

^ this guy really is a troll.... No there won't be any bottleneck whatsoever. Saying your Xeon would bottleneck a 1080 in anyway is like saying anything on the i7 X99 platform would bottleneck it. That's just not happening. You're are perfectly fine for a 1080 with your Xeon. 

[online_olympian]

2 minutes ago, Ophidio said:

^ this guy really is a troll.... No there won't be any bottleneck whatsoever. Saying your Xeon would bottleneck a 1080 in anyway is like saying anything on the i7 X99 platform would bottleneck it. That's just not happening. You're are perfectly fine for a 1080 with your Xeon. 

Thank you for your helpful feedback.

[Ophidio]

2 minutes ago, online_olympian said:

Thank you for your helpful feedback.

anytime I'm glad I was able to help. You could actually run 1080 SLI with that Xeon no problem from looking at Intels Ark. That chip is more than capable of handling it. 

[online_olympian]

Well thank you! I guess my foresight when buying this mobo in november for a 100 bucks paid off then. 100 for the proc, 70 for the ram. not a bad budget build.

[Guest]

6 minutes ago, Ophidio said:

^ this guy really is a troll.... No there won't be any bottleneck whatsoever. Saying your Xeon would bottleneck a 1080 in anyway is like saying anything on the i7 X99 platform would bottleneck it. That's just not happening. You're are perfectly fine for a 1080 with your Xeon. 

Not a troll!

I was saying that because of the launch date so i thought the architecture would be a little bit outdated

http://ark.intel.com/products/64595/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2670-20M-Cache-2_60-GHz-8_00-GTs-Intel-QPI

[Energycore]

1 minute ago, wra2000 said:

Not a troll!

I was saying that because of the launch date so i thought the architecture would be a little bit outdated

http://ark.intel.com/products/64595/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2670-20M-Cache-2_60-GHz-8_00-GTs-Intel-QPI

Ophidio meant the other guy above.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Energycore said:

Ophidio meant the other guy above.

I am sorry then!!

[Ophidio]

1 minute ago, wra2000 said:

Not a troll!

I was saying that because of the launch date so i thought the architecture would be a little bit outdated

http://ark.intel.com/products/64595/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2670-20M-Cache-2_60-GHz-8_00-GTs-Intel-QPI

No m8 I wasn't referring to you as the troll. I was referring to @derpy_epic_minecraftboy_XD look at everything he has posted on recently.. his comments are stupid and just pure troll. WIth how powerful the 1080 is supposed to be it's expected to be unsure on what chips will bottleneck this card. 

[online_olympian]

1 minute ago, wra2000 said:

I am sorry then!!

no need, we all make mistakes.. JUST DONT LET IT HAPPEN AGAIN! j/p

[Simon771]

8 cores with hyperthreading ... that won't bottleneck GPU for next 5 years at least.

 

But overall it's bad gaming CPU.

[online_olympian]

1 minute ago, Simon771 said:

8 cores with hyperthreading ... that won't bottleneck GPU for next 5 years at least.

 

But overall it's bad gaming CPU.

can you name a better one for the price? 

[Simon771]

25 minutes ago, online_olympian said:

can you name a better one for the price? 

 

 

So in this video you can see that simple i7 6700k perform better than those CPUs with 6 or 8 cores.

So for gaming you don't realy need more than i7 6700k or 4790k

In fact, you get lower performance with intel xeon CPUs, mostly because it can't be overclocked, it have low frequency and in general it's meant for servers and workstations.

 

And another video: 

 

Xeon simpy isn't for gaming.

 

Sure it can run games great, but does it run it better than i7 4790k? Nope.

So why waste 1000$ on xeon if you get better gaming performance for around 300$ on i7 4790k.

 

Simple as that

 

 

[online_olympian]

I paid 100 for it.

[online_olympian]

270 for nib mobo, ram and used xeon.

[online_olympian]

5 minutes ago, Simon771 said:

 

 

So in this video you can see that simple i7 6700k perform better than those CPUs with 6 or 8 cores.

So for gaming you don't realy need more than i7 6700k or 4790k

In fact, you get lower performance with intel xeon CPUs, mostly because it can't be overclocked, it have low frequency and in general it's meant for servers and workstations.

 

And another video: 

 

Xeon simpy isn't for gaming.

 

Sure it can run games great, but does it run it better than i7 4790k? Nope.

So why waste 1000$ on xeon if you get better gaming performance for around 300$ on i7 4790k.

 

Simple as that

 

 

if I had bought it new that would be the case. but I got it super cheap.

[i_build_nanosuits]

6 minutes ago, online_olympian said:

I paid 100 for it.

most games dont care if you have 4 cores/4 threads or 8 cores/16 threads...

what you have there is a sandy-bridge chip that is running at only 3ghz...it's getting long in the tooth for sure and when it comes to gaming the single-core performance (which is the most relevant spec to a processor) is pretty low due to the CPU being several generations old and running at a very low clock-speed...i can easily imagine many situations in CPU heavy games where such a CPU would have a noticeable impact on performance even on GPU's much slower than a GTX 1080.

 

it's not a good gaming CPU by today's standard, and i wouldn't pair it with such a high-end graphics solution that's for sure...it's multi-threaded performance is still up there and it would perform great in a rendering or workstation environment or in a server running multiple virtual machines for example...but in gaming where IPC and clockspeed is king...nahh it ain't great...not bad...for 100$ it's great, but it's not a high-end CPU when it comes to gaming, in fact it's a low/mid-range option in that arena.

 

[Simon771]

16 minutes ago, online_olympian said:

I paid 100 for it.

Oh woow, I just checked for that CPU ... it's like 4 years old and cost around 130$ on ebay.

Price realy dropped for this one lol

But at release it was over 1500$ worth.

 

Not sure why is that 8 core CPU from intel selling so cheap

 

[online_olympian]

1 minute ago, Simon771 said:

Oh woow, I just checked for that CPU ... it's like 4 years old and cost around 130$ on ebay.

Price realy dropped for this one lol

But at release it was over 1500$ worth.

 

Not sure why is that 8 core CPU from intel selling so cheap

 

facebook is going to v3 same with amazon.

[online_olympian]

7 minutes ago, i_build_nanosuits said:

most games dont care if you have 4 cores/4 threads or 8 cores/16 threads...

what you have there is a sandy-bridge chip that is running at only 3ghz...it's getting long in the tooth for sure and when it comes to gaming the single-core performance (which is the most relevant spec to a processor) is pretty low due to the CPU being several generations old and running at a very low clock-speed...i can easily imagine many situations in CPU heavy games where such a CPU would have a noticeable impact on performance even on GPU's much slower than a GTX 1080.

 

it's not a good gaming CPU by today's standard, and i wouldn't pair it with such a high-end graphics solution that's for sure...it's multi-threaded performance is still up there and it would perform great in a rendering or workstation environment or in a server running multiple virtual machines for example...but in gaming where IPC and clockspeed is king...nahh it ain't great...not bad...for 100$ it's great, but it's not a high-end CPU when it comes to gaming, in fact it's a low/mid-range option in that arena.

 

What new games only run on 1 core? none that I play. I noticed a huge improvement over my i5 3570 running at 3.7.

[Simon771]

5 minutes ago, online_olympian said:

What new games only run on 1 core? none that I play. I noticed a huge improvement over my i5 3570 running at 3.7.

It depends realy ... some games are more CPU heavy and would benefit from your CPU.

But most games are looking for single core performance.

 

If it's running okay for you, just leave it so

[online_olympian]

Black ops would freeze with my i5 all the time and would run at 100 percent cpu usage. I had to alt-tab to get it to move. this breezes through it with 35%-40% cpu usage.