xeon e5-1680v4

[Gareth Scott]

Hello

I currently have an i5-7600k on a z270 motherboard. I have the chance from work to get a xeon e5-1680v4 with 64GB RAM. I would pair this with the Asus ROG x99 motherboard. I already have an RTX 2080ti

I am wondering if I should do this or would I be better sticking with my i5. I have heard some people do have a xeon as their gaming/daily driver machine but I wouldn't want to do it if it was going to throttle my GPU due to the lower core clocks (3.4Ghz and boost to 4.0). The fact it is 8 core is very interesting for my photo and video editing but I game more than I edit.

Any advice would be appreciated. I do not have the space to run two rigs so it would be one or the other.

Thanks in advance
Gareth

 

[Wommers]

I think that Xeon is locked so you would be stuck with 4ghz boost. If all you are going to do is game you would be better sticking with the i5 to get more out of that GPU. Otherwise I would consider getting an unlocked i7 for the best of both worlds.

 

[MartinPrince]

As wommers states, due to the Xeon being locked you would be taking a hit in games and also in general photo editing (only batch stuff benefits from multi-core), it is really on in video that you would see some benefit.

 

[TrojanWhore]

Had to look in to these chips, as I was sure the E5-1xx0 were unlocked, turns out they were up to v3

If you already have the X99ROG, I would definitely want to change, especially given you do some video editing as well.
If you had to buy a motherboard as well it would depend on my budget.

4c/4t has become a limitation in some games in the last year or two (Battlefield 1/5, latest Assassins Creed as well I think), and will likely continue to do so.

If you had an i7 then I'd be less worried. I haven't got round to spending any real time on OCing my (Ryzen) CPU yet, so am running 3.2GHz on both CPU and RAM and have not felt it to be a limitation in games (for 1440p/60Hz at least), whereas my 2500k at 4.4GHz defintely was starting to show it's age!