Xeon for gaming?

[RandomDude2]

Hello everyone,

 

first of all, this is my first time posting anything @ linustechtips, so I'm already sorry for making mistakes (also non-native english speaker).

 

Story:

My Gaming-Rig is getting really old and having some problems lately, so I started looking for a new build. As I'm about to need a workstation for some vm's, rendering, etc in a few months, the idea came up to combine both.

I thought of using the asus z9pe-d8 ws, 64gb ram and adding a nice gpu, probably the gtx 1070.

 

Question:

What Xeon (lga 2011) should I use?

I know they aren't really overclockable and not designed for gaming anyhow, but some (e.g. e5 2643v2 ) have clockspeeds up to 3.5ghz with 6 cores. Will this xeon be a bottleneck for future gaming?

 

Thank you very much in advance

[PRTI]

No

[Guest]

There is no way that a hyper threading 6 core Xeon would bottleneck the 1070.

[Mr.Meerkat]

screw xeons (unless you need ECC memory or something like that) and go with the likes of a 5820k/6800k (or higher if you need more cores for the VM) and when OCed, they perform pretty well in gaming scenarios vs a 6700k  

[PRTI]

6 minutes ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

screw xeons (unless you need ECC memory or something like that) and go with the likes of a 5820k/6800k (or higher if you need more cores for the VM) and when OCed, they perform pretty well in gaming scenarios vs a 6700k  

Yeah

[Samfisher]

12 minutes ago, spidsepttk said:

There is no way that a hyper threading 6 core Xeon would bottleneck the 1070.

Of course it will, clock speed wise they are pretty damn slow.

[Guest]

Just now, Samfisher said:

Of course it will, clock speed wise they are pretty damn slow.

Ark E5-2643 v2.

 

Processor Base Frequency: 3.5 GHz

Max Turbo Frequency: 3.8 GHz

 

That's fast enough?

[martward]

1 minute ago, Samfisher said:

Of course it will, clock speed wise they are pretty damn slow.

3.5 GHz is not "pretty damn slow".

[Samfisher]

3 minutes ago, spidsepttk said:

Ark E5-2643 v2.

 

Processor Base Frequency: 3.5 GHz

Max Turbo Frequency: 3.8 GHz

 

That's fast enough?

 

2 minutes ago, martward said:

3.5 GHz is not "pretty damn slow".

When gaming PC's are frequently OC'd to 4.5GHz (which is pretty common) and above, it is.That's almost 30% faster.

[Mr.Meerkat]

Just now, Samfisher said:

 

When gaming PC's are frequently OC'd to 4.5GHz (which is pretty common) and above, it is.That's almost 30% faster.

Not everyone OCs...it won't bottleneck the 1070, it just might not be as fast in some senarios  

[Samfisher]

Just now, Mr.Meerkat said:

Not everyone OCs...it won't bottleneck the 1070, it just might not be as fast in some senarios  

Hence a bottleneck  

[Guest]

Just now, Samfisher said:

When gaming PC's are frequently OC'd to 4.5GHz (which is pretty common) and above, it is.That's almost 30% faster.

I'm just saying that it won't bottleneck and it will be fine for virtualisation.

[Samfisher]

5 minutes ago, spidsepttk said:

I'm just saying that it won't bottleneck and it will be fine for virtualisation.

For workstations yeah, would be fine.  VMs sure, gaming? Passable. If the price is right it's good.

[Mr.Meerkat]

6 minutes ago, Samfisher said:

Hence a bottleneck  

When it's CPU single core intensive mate  

[PRTI]

12 minutes ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

When it's CPU single core intensive mate  

Freaking Arma...

[SLAYR]

2 hours ago, RandomDude2 said:

Hello everyone,

 

first of all, this is my first time posting anything @ linustechtips, so I'm already sorry for making mistakes (also non-native english speaker).

 

Story:

My Gaming-Rig is getting really old and having some problems lately, so I started looking for a new build. As I'm about to need a workstation for some vm's, rendering, etc in a few months, the idea came up to combine both.

I thought of using the asus z9pe-d8 ws, 64gb ram and adding a nice gpu, probably the gtx 1070.

 

Question:

What Xeon (lga 2011) should I use?

I know they aren't really overclockable and not designed for gaming anyhow, but some (e.g. e5 2643v2 ) have clockspeeds up to 3.5ghz with 6 cores. Will this xeon be a bottleneck for future gaming?

 

Thank you very much in advance

The only 2011 xeon I could recommend is the e5 2670 just because they can be bought for $60USD.

 

What is your budget?

for $750USD you can get a 5820k, and 64gb along with a motherboard.

http://pcpartpicker.com/list/tH4BQ7

 

If anything if you are looking for specific xeons you might pay over $1000UsD looking for the one you want, a cheaper option would be to get a x79 motherboard, and an e5 1650 if you want 6 cores, and then you can oc that to match a 3930k ( tech yes city on youtube had a video on this

), or even better would be to just look for a 3930k.

[iDeFecZx]

2 hours ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

screw xeons (unless you need ECC memory or something like that) and go with the likes of a 5820k/6800k (or higher if you need more cores for the VM) and when OCed, they perform pretty well in gaming scenarios vs a 6700k  

He said LGA 2011, not 2011-v3.

[Nena Trinity]

In most cases a Xeon should be fine!

[SLAYR]

2 minutes ago, iDeFecZx said:

He said LGA 2011, not 2011-v3.

With some of the prices on 2011 motherboards, and cpus sometimes it is cheaper (as well as faster) to go 2011-3.

[Hydro]

3 hours ago, RandomDude2 said:

Hello everyone,

 

first of all, this is my first time posting anything @ linustechtips, so I'm already sorry for making mistakes (also non-native english speaker).

 

Story:

My Gaming-Rig is getting really old and having some problems lately, so I started looking for a new build. As I'm about to need a workstation for some vm's, rendering, etc in a few months, the idea came up to combine both.

I thought of using the asus z9pe-d8 ws, 64gb ram and adding a nice gpu, probably the gtx 1070.

 

Question:

What Xeon (lga 2011) should I use?

I know they aren't really overclockable and not designed for gaming anyhow, but some (e.g. e5 2643v2 ) have clockspeeds up to 3.5ghz with 6 cores. Will this xeon be a bottleneck for future gaming?

 

Thank you very much in advance

you shoud use a xeon, if you want 2011-3 i recomend e5-2630 v4

[SLAYR]

1 hour ago, Hydro said:

you shoud use a xeon, if you want 2011-3 i recomend e5-2630 v4

The low clockspeed would bottleneck a 1070, and hinder any gaming performance.