Server CPU for gaming and photo use

[Imgoingtobed]

This has been covered in the past I know but I am really after some opinions to help make my mind up.

I have some reasonably high spec server processors from a project server build that's done with. Now I'm wondering whether they would work well on a gaming rig / photo processing PC.

The CPUs are Xeon E5-2660v3 (I have a pair) 2.6ghz, 10 core blah blah blah
I have some ram too 128gb of ddr4 (8x16gb) so could use that in a new server board. I would need a new motherboard, graphics card but the rest is covered.

So I could either use what I have and get a few bits to finish it off or sell it all and buy a new system from scratch.

Any thoughts or opinions on this? All ideas welcome

 

[Imgoingtobed]

Hmm, sounds like time to check prices and get these bits sold on. Last time I looked the CPUs were going for pretty decent money on eBay.

2 chips and 8 sticks of ram should get me a decent start on some i7 extreme water cooled action hopefully.

Time to sort a shopping list.

 

[Imgoingtobed]

I probably should have titled this post better as photoshop editing, Raw file handling, HDR rendering will be the systems primary use as I have thousands of photos to go through and my laptop although reasonable isn't up to the job fast enough.

Gaming will be the secondary use when I get bored of photos and want to kill things


I have read up on photoshop and various tasks love as many cores as they can get, others tasks prefer GPU. Both I can have here with 20 cores and a 1080 card maybe.

Failing that sell what I have and buy a brand new system with a £2000 ish budget including a monitor. Its a tough choice as I really want to play with these chips but need a stable system for working on.

Thanks for the info so far guys, interesting stuff.