Gaming PC ?

[Eyal_81]

whats up guys?

 

I have
GeForce GTX 1080 XLR8 OC and Xeon e5 2680 v3
I'm thinking of buying an MSI X99A GAMING 7 motherboard
And also add my old GTX 960 in SLI

Can i run games on it?
It is more powerful than the i7 7700k computer ?

 

And if there is cheap liquid cooling for this processor?
Thanks in advance
 Eyal

[DarkSmith2]

7 minutes ago, Eyal_81 said:

Can i run games on it?

kind of

7 minutes ago, Eyal_81 said:

It is more powerful than the i7 7700k computer ?

not in gaming

8 minutes ago, Eyal_81 said:

And also add my old GTX 960 in SLI

waste of electrical power

8 minutes ago, Eyal_81 said:

And if there is cheap liquid cooling for this processor?

buy cheap, buy twice.

[Eyal_81]

waste of electrical power why?

 

 

[Bananasplit_00]

How would the 960 SLI help? It's less powerful then the 1080 and you can't use it for games. The Xeon is more powerful in compute tasks like CPU rendering, but the 7700K wins in games. 

[Eyal_81]

Thanks but I'm still not sure about the matter with the processor

 

[Glennieboyyy007]

2 minutes ago, Eyal_81 said:

Thanks but I'm still not sure about the matter with the processor

 

be sure to quote people!! or tag (not both)

@DarkSmith2@Bananasplit_00

[Bananasplit_00]

11 minutes ago, Eyal_81 said:

Thanks but I'm still not sure about the matter with the processor

 

It will give you lower fps in games, but faster speeds in rendering video and so on

[kerradeph]

12 minutes ago, Eyal_81 said:

Thanks but I'm still not sure about the matter with the processor

 

http://ark.intel.com/compare/81908,97128,97129

 

Most games are still somewhat core speed dependent. Having the lower core speeds on the Xeon means that you'll lose some performance compared to the 7700. It will run games pretty well. Regular AIO water cooling would be your best bet for cheap water cooling. I would suggest the Corsair H series, it's more expensive than some of the options but it's a solid option.

[Eyal_81]

1 minute ago, kerradeph said:

http://ark.intel.com/compare/81908,97128,97129

 

Most games are still somewhat core speed dependent. Having the lower core speeds on the Xeon means that you'll lose some performance compared to the 7700. It will run games pretty well. Regular AIO water cooling would be your best bet for cheap water cooling. I would suggest the Corsair H series, it's more expensive than some of the options but it's a solid option.

 

3 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

It will give you lower fps in games, but faster speeds in rendering video and so on

 

26 minutes ago, DarkSmith2 said:

kind of

not in gaming

waste of electrical power

buy cheap, buy twice.

Thank you all

[Eyal_81]

4 minutes ago, kerradeph said:

http://ark.intel.com/compare/81908,97128,97129

 

Most games are still somewhat core speed dependent. Having the lower core speeds on the Xeon means that you'll lose some performance compared to the 7700. It will run games pretty well. Regular AIO water cooling would be your best bet for cheap water cooling. I would suggest the Corsair H series, it's more expensive than some of the options but it's a solid option.

Thank you, but can I have another question?
If it depends on the core speed then why not the Xeon e5 2680 v3 It has 12 cores but low speed

 

so it like i7 is 4*4.20=16.8 vs Xeon 12*2.50=30!

[kerradeph]

Just now, Eyal_81 said:

Thank you, but can I have another question?
If it depends on the core speed then why not the Xeon e5 2680 v3 It has 12 cores but low speed

 

so it like i7 is 4*4.20=16.8 vs Xeon 12*2.50=30!

It's per core speed. Because a lot of games don't do that well with spreading loads between many cores, it relies on what a few fast cores can do. This is why gaming CPUs are still mostly only 4-6 cores but are designed to be much faster. 

 

This is also why Intel still pulls ahead of AMD's new CPUs is because the AMD CPUs have tons of cores but all at lower per core speeds so the games that don't work well with multithreaded workloads get better benchmarks on the Intel CPUs. 

[Eyal_81]

OK TNX