Is this legit? If yes, how bad will it be for gaming?

[Daniel Z.]

I found this Xeon E5 2630 V4 for around $280 and I could get a cheaper X99 mobo which would be around the same as the 1700 and a B350 with better AVX and 2 extra cores for productivity. Is it legit and will it make my gaming much worse? I only play SW Battlefront 2015 and minecraft. I use Nvenc to record because my i5 4460 is way too weak for that, and my 960 can't record and play SW Battlefront so would the extra cores be good for x264 encoding? Imma eat brekfast now so be back in 15 ish minutes

[DarkBlade2117]

"Productivity" What kind of productivity

[MCCOPRA]

Anything Below 3ghz is gonna be painfully slow for gaming 1080p since most games only utilize 4 cores.

SW Battlefront will be ok but minecraft will strugle.

 

if you run 4k the cpu will matter less but still be slower than i5 7500.

[paddy-stone]

6 minutes ago, Daniel Z. said:

I found this Xeon E5 2630 V4 for around $280 and I could get a cheaper X99 mobo which would be around the same as the 1700 and a B350 with better AVX and 2 extra cores for productivity. Is it legit and will it make my gaming much worse? I only play SW Battlefront 2015 and minecraft. I use Nvenc to record because my i5 4460 is way too weak for that, and my 960 can't record and play SW Battlefront so would the extra cores be good for x264 encoding? Imma eat brekfast now so be back in 15 ish minutes

I'd go with the 1700 if you want to play and stream at the same time etc. I think if you go with the zeon you will regret it pretty soon after. Just my opinion.

[Daniel Z.]

Just now, paddy-stone said:

I'd go with the 1700 if you want to play and stream at the same time etc. I think if you go with the zeon you will regret it pretty soon after. Just my opinion.

 

3 minutes ago, MCCOPRA said:

Anything Below 3ghz is gonna be painfully slow for gaming 1080p since most games only utilize 4 cores.

SW Battlefront will be ok but minecraft will strugle.

 

if you run 4k the cpu will matter less but still be slower than i5 7500.

OK thanks, I game at 1440p. It's just that blender etc. uses AVX

[Elerek]

You can get an AMD 1600 for the same price that'll get a full 1GHz faster.

Sure you don't have as many cores (6 core 12 thread) but that should still be more than sufficient for productivity and will blow that e5 away in gaming.

[tvanreeven]

I've recently build a workstation PC with a Xeon E5-2670 V2 ES @ 2.3 Ghz, and it bottlenecks games to the max. I use it for 3D rendering which utilizes all 20 threads for a 100%. Other from that, I would not recommend it