New Gaming Build

[M.Abdullah]

as the title suggests i am going for a new gaming build.core i5 4-6th gen cpu are pretty expensive in my country(stupid currency issues)

but xeon are pretty cheap so what should i get and also i wont be changing the case so cable managment tips.also what gpu should i get from amd side?

[Electronics Wizardy]

What xeons. 

 

There are xeons from the pentium III era.

 

 

[M.Abdullah]

i am getting a e5 2660 hp z420?any recomendations

[Oswin]

xeons are not usually used to play games. and may i ask which region are you at?

[TheRandomness]

18 minutes ago, Oswin said:

xeons are not usually used to play games. and may i ask which region are you at?

They should be used more. They can be very good depending on the Xeon. For example, the E3 lineup can be used as a cheaper alternative to an i7 whilst being better than i7 in terms of power consumption and heat produced. 

[M.Abdullah]

8 hours ago, Oswin said:

xeons are not usually used to play games. and may i ask which region are you at?

pakistan to be exact.also its a ddr3 machine so much am i losing in performance?
 

[Oswin]

15 hours ago, M.Abdullah said:

pakistan to be exact.also its a ddr3 machine so much am i losing in performance?
 

losing performance against?

[M.Abdullah]

as the title suggests i am looking for a new pc build.i7 4th to 6th gen cou are pretty expensive in my country(pakistan)(stupid currency issues)so i was going for a xeon x5660 or x5675 should i go for it for should i go for an e5 2660 v2(its expensive though) or is e5 overkill?.and will the x5660 and x5670 be future proof for some time and will they bottleneck my rx 480 8gb.and how comparable is core i5 6600k is to the above mentioned xeons.ill use my rig for gaming and coding 1080p

[Miller1218]

can you post a PC Part Picker List

[Othersideguy]

This is my build below which seems to be good for my needs if your interested: http://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/RKTH3F

 

I believe that any i5 4th - 6th gen is more than enough when paired with a decent GPU, so an i5 6500 or i5 6600 should meet your needs very well.  As for future-proofing (I don't know much about future-proofing) I believe 5th or 6th gen i7 or any Zeon e5 would be more than enough to last you for gaming and programming for many years to come.

[M.Abdullah]

2 minutes ago, Miller1218 said:

can you post a PC Part Picker List

no use dollar is way better than rupees so a 100$ cpu is cheap on you side for me its goddamn expensive so sorry

[M.Abdullah]

2 minutes ago, Othersideguy said:

This is my build below which seems to be good for my needs if your interested: http://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/RKTH3F

 

I believe that any i5 4th - 6th gen is more than enough when paired with a decent GPU, so an i5 6500 or i5 6600 should meet your needs very well.  As for future-proofing (I don't know much about future-proofing) I believe 5th or 6th gen i7 or any Zeon e5 would be more than enough to last you for gaming and programming for many years to come.

like is said i7 and i5 4th to 6th gen is pretty expensive in my country i am going for the mentioned xeons should i go for x5660 or x5670 or are they a waste of cash

[SnowyMus]

14 minutes ago, M.Abdullah said:

as the title suggests i am looking for a new pc build.i7 4th to 6th gen cou are pretty expensive in my country(pakistan)(stupid currency issues)so i was going for a xeon x5660 or x5675 should i go for it for should i go for an e5 2660 v2(its expensive though) or is e5 overkill?.and will the x5660 and x5670 be future proof for some time and will they bottleneck my rx 480 8gb.and how comparable is core i5 6600k is to the above mentioned xeons.ill use my rig for gaming and coding 1080p

An e5 2660 v2 is a 10-core CPU. You do not need a 10-core CPU for gaming, and the low frequency might bite you on some games.

 

What prices are you getting these Xeon processors? Their MSRPs are about $1400, which is insanely overkill for whatever you're doing, so I'm assuming you're buying them secondhand/used, which is where you want to be looking if you can't afford newer things.

[Othersideguy]

I don't have a huge amount of experience with Xeons, however, I believe there isn't too huge of a difference from this comparison here:

 

http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Xeon-X5670-vs-Intel-Xeon-X5660

 

I believe they perform very similar and either choice will serve well

[M.Abdullah]

4 minutes ago, Kavawuvi said:

An e5 2660 v2 is a 10-core CPU. You do not need a 10-core CPU for gaming, and the low frequency might bite you on some games.

 

What prices are you getting these Xeon processors? Their MSRPs are about $1400, which is insanely overkill for whatever you're doing, so I'm assuming you're buying them secondhand/used, which is where you want to be looking if you can't afford newer things.

yes they are second hand an x5660 and x5670 would cost me around 350$

hp z800 rig with 16 gigs of ram.while an e5 would cost me a wooping around 700$ with 16gigs ram hp z420

[M.Abdullah]

xeon x5675 vs xeon e5 2620 vs core i5 6500 which will serve me better for robotics,coding and networking and gaming,also should i worry about getting  ddr4 memor since xeon is ddr3 and how much is this futurre proof since ddr5 will come in 2020.

[WkdPaul]

All threads merged, please make sure not to make multiple topics asking for the same thing over and over again.

[RAM555789]

DDR3 is not dead yet. Many people still use DDR3 in there system rigs, in America, we have not all switched over to DDR4 because its expensive memory.  I see DDR3 going on for like 5-20 more years before it finally dies out. Many commercially available PCs in the U.S. still use DDR3 and you only see DDR4 in the newest baddest rigs, for gaming at 4k and doing VR stuff. If your looking for 1080p and recording at that DDR3 should be just fine. As for your processor I can't say I don't know that much about Xeons.

[Guest]

10 minutes ago, RAM555789 said:

DDR3 is not dead yet. Many people still use DDR3 in there system rigs, in America, we have not all switched over to DDR4 because its expensive memory.  I see DDR3 going on for like 5-20 more years before it finally dies out. Many commercially available PCs in the U.S. still use DDR3 and you only see DDR4 in the newest baddest rigs, for gaming at 4k and doing VR stuff. If your looking for 1080p and recording at that DDR3 should be just fine. As for your processor I can't say I don't know that much about Xeons.

DDR4 is expensive ?  It is about the same price as DDR3. 

 

 

[RAM555789]

2 minutes ago, lee32uk said:

DDR4 is expensive ?  It is about the same price as DDR3. 

 

 

Yeah your right, I remember is being fairly pricey a year I didn't realize how much its dropped since then.