Is dell t7400 good for gaming?

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Hello friends im just confused so i need your help. My budget is max 120$ for pc. In my country Pakistan my friend offering me dell t7400 server with dual e5450 xeon processors in 100$ and other option is i5 2400 which is 150$ here. I just wanna know will e5450 perform good? I have display of 1680x1050 i play new games watch movies and data saving. I have nvidia gtx 650 ti 2 gb graphic card. So will it able to give nice fps and performance in games and will it give benefit of 2x processors?
It has 1000 watts psu.
 
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The E5450 doesn't even meet the minimum requirements of many games made in the last several years. It depends on which ones you're playing, but many may not run well enough to be playable. The i5 would be a much better choice and is considerably faster - it's 4, almost 5 years newer after all.

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The E5450 doesn't even meet the minimum requirements of many games made in the last several years. It depends on which ones you're playing, but many may not run well enough to be playable. The i5 would be a much better choice and is considerably faster - it's 4, almost 5 years newer after all.

 
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Yes they'll perform well. Dual processors only help when you have multi-threaded games, which are rare. For $100 you are getting a LOT of performance. Your CPU's definitely won't be a bottleneck. The PSU is server-grade (and so is the whole computer) which means it will probably last for a really, really long time.
An i5 2400 has a bit more power than 1 e5450, but two would beat it. You'll be able to run your GPU to it's max power, and you should expect to get the all the performance that the card can deliver.
Out of curiosity, how much RAM does it have?
 
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^Ecky^ is right, the E5450 really doesn't meet minimum requirements for A LOT of games made even before 2012. I recommend going with the i5-2400 CPU as well.

EDIT: UNLESS you overclock the E5450 on a P5 motherboard and you could sell the second E5450 and buy that motherboard.
 
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Those CPUs came out 9 years ago. If you want to see how 8 weak cores perform, look at something like an FX-83xx, which is routinely outperformed by an i3 in gaming. Now imagine those cores had significantly worse IPC, and were clocked significantly lower. That's what dual e5450's will perform like.
 
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Why do you say they are weak cores? Because they're old? An FX-8XXX, which was designed in 2011 is obviously going to be outperformed by a 1-year old i3. Compare them to similar processors and then make such claims.
My last computer had an OC'd FX-8120 at 4.0GHz
My new computer has 2x E5-2670s at 2.6GHz
Even when using only 1 equally-cored, lower-clocked processor, I have about 3x the power of the FX processor. Sorcery? No, they're just well-designed.
The E5450 processors, while old, were extremely powerful for the time they were made, hence the $1,000 price tag when they came out. Obviously they are older than the i5 2400, but benchmarks show just a slight difference between the i5 2400 and a single E5450. Having two processors doubles your performance, so my claim still stands, that it will perform better than a i5 2400. He has a GTX 650ti, which will be the the bottleneck long before the processors will.
My processors, while only clocked at 2.6GHz, paired with an R9 390x, get no more than a 0-10% drop in FPS compared to the glorified i7 6700k.

Again to what you said, an FX-83XX would run perfectly with a 650ti so I'm not sure what the problem is here.

 
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In a word? Yes.

3x the power in what way? Based on what?
Also, those 2670s are nearly five years newer than the e5450. And that makes a huge difference given that at the time CPU was still increasing rapidly (whereas in the last several years it has plateaued).

They still likely had similar IPC to other CPUs of the day, which would be very low by today's standards. Performance doesn't scale linearly with price, you can spend 3 times as much on a CPU but that doesn't mean it is 3x as powerful, or will last 3 times as long. Also, what benchmarks are you looking at comparing the i5 2400 to the E5450?

No, it doesn't. In perfectly threaded work loads able to take advantage of all cores (which is rare), you may get close to double the performance. In most common workloads, such as gaming, doubling the number of cores results in a much smaller improvement, sometimes negligible.

Yes, you're right, it may not bottleneck that particular low end GPU. That doesn't make it a good buy.
 
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