High Core Xeon for Gaming

[zx128k]

Even with dual x5690 you are better off with one 3800x. The two cpu's will set you back over £370. Cheap x5690 Xeon's even with a 4.4GHz overclock can't match on price or performance. It's just cheaper to go for a AMD processor, with better RAM overclocking.

A dual Xeon 2697 is just not worth it, you don't need cores and a AMD Ryzen 3700X is cheaper, faster in games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvl5rSOcLzw

https://youtu.be/khDsbxa5_G0

Us gamer's will go elsewhere. It will be a question of 2700X < 3600 < 3600X

 

[Rroff]

My folks live in the States and there you can buy them even now for £160. There much rarer here in the U.K. but you'd expect to pay near £200 for the 1680 V2.

I had X79 for the longest time but even at £200 I could pick up a 2700 and motherboard which would out do it by some way.

The other problem is just no platform appeals to me likeX79 did at the time - it was a nice solid setup in its day that was well priced and in a good place between consumer and workstation/server with most of the positives of each different area and few of the negatives.