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Dual Xeon X5450 any good for gaming?

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October 14, 2014 1:12:03 AM

So im going to build a gaming PC but my friend is trying to sell me a PC with two Xeon X5450 and a GTX 570 and i asked him what kind of gaming performance does he get he said that he has not gamed on it, so is it a good pc for $156.55? And what kind of gaming performance would i get from the PC?

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October 14, 2014 1:21:49 AM

The cpus are from 2007, but, are quad-core 3 Ghz processors....; if you double check that your MB supports PCI-Express graphics, and doubkle check that your price was not off by a power of ten ($156???), then , I'd go for it at that price regardless of it's gaming ability.

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October 14, 2014 1:24:27 AM

Uhhh for 159 bucks thats a good deal. You know at that price its decent if its dead tbh. If its 1500 now, its different. Its not gonna be a gaming optimised system but throw in a new graphics card and you should be fine. If you were going to build one cpu is the way to go but for this price go for it
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October 14, 2014 1:28:53 AM

Yes, he is offering it to me for 156$. But i care if i can game on it, i mean like really game on it not like that i get 2 FPS on minecraft and on low settings.
And if i buy it what would be the best GPU for it and because it has two 4 core CPU's would it mean that if some game supported 8 cores it would run like heaven on that PC?
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October 14, 2014 1:45:52 AM

Thepixel02 said:
Yes, he is offering it to me for 156$. But i care if i can game on it, i mean like really game on it not like that i get 2 FPS on minecraft and on low settings.
And if i buy it what would be the best GPU for it and because it has two 4 core CPU's would it mean that if some game supported 8 cores it would run like heaven on that PC?


Maybe, I don't know if games will like dual cpus but for 156 bucks its a good deal (if it works). A 570 is still a decent card but you could put a 970 or 980 in there and it should be good.
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October 14, 2014 1:58:03 AM

But would the GTX 970 bottleneck it?
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October 14, 2014 2:26:11 AM

Thepixel02 said:
But would the GTX 970 bottleneck it?


I dont know mate, not a lot of gaming benchmarks out there for dual xeon systems and they are not optimised for gaming. I dont know what you mean with the bottleneck but i doubt a dual core xeon system will bottleneck a 970 card. You should be fine and for $156 even if it plays games like its wading through molasses its not going to matter.
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October 14, 2014 3:08:57 AM

But also would the 2 CPU's be good for heavy multitasking and like video streaming/editing at the same time?
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October 14, 2014 4:14:02 AM

Roughly the same as having two Q6600 core 2 quads. Yeah would be good for multitasking, although the single threaded performance is not brilliant.
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October 14, 2014 4:35:29 AM

Yes, it will be good for multithreaded applications but at $156 it will play games well and is really, really cheap
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