Pc Buiding Or Upgrade?

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Hello, Ive been hearing alot of hype around taking 1-2 xeons that run about 3.3 ghz and you overclock them and get a really good gaming system on the cheap, and do the lga 771 to 775 mod, and get a mobo cheap.

I have around 200 dollars and I wonder if I should go this route, and just pop in my OCED gtx 660ti and have a 16-32 thread pc, Or upgrade my existing PC.
Here are my specs
Processor: i3 4160 (3.6ghz)(haswell)
Graphics Card: Gigabyte NVIDIA GTX 660ti Factory OC (can oc more)2gb
Ram: 8 gb if A-DATA Ram 1600mhz
Mobo: Asrock B85M-ITX(haswell b85).
PSU: EVGA 500W Bronze
Monitor:27 Inch ASUS 120HZ
My overall question is should I sell off the mobo and cpu to get a dual xeon or 1xeon build and stick my 660ti oc. Or upgrade my system maybe to a 780 or a 1050ti??? Or maybe a processor upgrade (core i5 haswell??).

The games I play are:
DAYZ King of the Kill (forum says cpu intensive)
CS:GO
BF4
TF2
World Of Tanks
Rainbow 6 Siege
And I stream and video edit and photoshop (TIME to TIME)



 
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i wrote i5 or i7 and 1060

i would upgrade the gpu first and see if i get the results i wanted

then if i don't get enough fps, save for the cpu

this goes for the xoen idea, it only gives you cpu power, you will still need gpu power and a old gpu, will bottleneck the cpu
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i have read that too and saw bryan on tech city doing the process and seems easy and viable to do but the provlem seems to be find the mainboard capable of do the overclock and be stable

since lga 775 is a very old socket, perhaps abandoned in, 2009? sounds like a very fun project but wiht no furure and with hardder to find mainboards to keep it alive, is hard to recomend to everyone

especially since you mention the dual xeon route, that makes even hardder to find the dual socket mainboard and the ats case to acomodate it

if i was you, i wouldn't sell anything, perhaps upgrade to a i5 or i7 and change to a 1060

it is more money, but is a safer bet

then when you have the money to play with xeons, then try to find the mainboard, the ddr2 ram modules and the case for it

it is just my opinion, sounds like i am killing your hype, but sometimes we need to read more facts before jump into a project
 
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I only have 200 dollars, so can't afford a 1070 or and i7, so should I upgrade my graphics card to a 708 or a 1050ti or should I got for a core i5 upgrade?
 
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i wrote i5 or i7 and 1060

i would upgrade the gpu first and see if i get the results i wanted

then if i don't get enough fps, save for the cpu

this goes for the xoen idea, it only gives you cpu power, you will still need gpu power and a old gpu, will bottleneck the cpu
 
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