Will dual Xeon E5-2660 2.2GHz bottleneck a 1070 or 1080

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I was given a server motherboard with dual Intel Xeon E5-2660 2.2 GHz and was thinking to build a rig with it. My plan is to save some cash on the motherboard, cpu and ram and spend it on the gpu. My question is, will dual Xeon E5-2660 and 32 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ram bottleneck a 1070,1080 or even a 1080 ti?
 
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if you are even able to configure that board to allow for pcie video out I would be amazed.

and yes these servers are made for compute. for example they will take a video render and convert it to a different file format. they don't have quick responces for things like games. they are not made for it. 2.2 ghz means that single core tasks will be bottlenecked. very few games if any at all can use the second CPU so that's useless. I would imagine a 1050ti would be bottlenecked by this computer.

Servers are not ment to game. yes it may work, but it is not designed to do so. I wouldn't buy a 1070,80 or 80ti either but that's a different question
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if you are even able to configure that board to allow for pcie video out I would be amazed.

and yes these servers are made for compute. for example they will take a video render and convert it to a different file format. they don't have quick responces for things like games. they are not made for it. 2.2 ghz means that single core tasks will be bottlenecked. very few games if any at all can use the second CPU so that's useless. I would imagine a 1050ti would be bottlenecked by this computer.

Servers are not ment to game. yes it may work, but it is not designed to do so. I wouldn't buy a 1070,80 or 80ti either but that's a different question
 
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Thanks a lot for the detailed answer! Now I understand why it won't work and won't make a gaming rig out of server cpus.
 
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you can game on it using GTX 1070 , you will get lower FPS but you will still game on them without any problems.

dont think that 2.2 GHZ is low for gaming. any one who says that to you knows nothing about it. and it turbos at 3Ghz as well , and since you have 2 CPUs there then you will get at least 2 cores from each cpu Turbo at 3Ghz. and maybe more.

my advice to you is to get a GTX 1070/1080 and try it out . you wont be disappointed at all.

and in Any ways , that GPU will stay if you decide to sell the server board and the CPUs and get a modern PC. you lose nothing.

keep in mind that the coming Xbox Scorpio 8 cores CPU is only 2.3 Ghz ... and it will play games on 4K ..

when you use lower frequency you will lose some FPS but you will still be able to game with good fps .

 
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I understand that the cpu has a boost speed, however not all servers allow for pcie video out. you need to verify that the bios allows for that in the first place. there is a good chance that you buy the card and put it in and the server is unable to use that card as a video device. I have a server that does this.

while yes, as a CPU in a normal mobo it will work, it will be slower than an i5 skylake or even haswell build but only 10 to 20% at most.

you need to remember that that second CPU is not seen as simply more cores to windows. its ran as a service CPU and only the first one will be toward a game while the second one runs background tasks.

 
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there is nothing called PCIe Video out. and I never seen a server motherboard that does not allow PCIe Slot to function when a Graphic Card is installed.

and the second CPU will work and will be seen as more cores .

 
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As an option in the bios ever since I was 5 there was agp then PCI then pcie out as graphics path. My server does not support pcie video out. It only allows for the integrated ATI e1000 chip as a gpu. Designed as a headless server.

Secondly I tested this and put win 7 on my server to find it recognizes 2 CPU but does not load CPUs in primary load tasks. It only applies load to CPU 1 and leaves CPU 2 for background operations.

Don't speak in absolutes with computer hardware as its rarely true. Some server boards allow for pcie video out but not all do. Some apps and os's scale to two CPUs not all do. I would not recommend arnab.pers do this because the risk is high and if it doesn't work he now can't afford the rest of his build.
 
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