I was thinking of building a gaming pc with dual Xeon 2660 2.2ghz cpus. I have researched about the topic and most say that the Xeons will bottleneck the 1070 but the Xbox one X has 2.3 ghz cores and the Xeons can boost to 3 ghz. I also have seen benchmarks where the Xeons would perform about 5-10% worse in most games compared to i7 and ryzen 7 with a 1080/1080ti (dont remember).
The main reason I want to build with the Xeons is since I could save some cash as one of my friends works at a place with servers and the servers are soon going to changed so I could get hold of 2 cpus a mother board and 64 gbs of ddr3 1666 ram. I have made a build https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/nmZNKZ for the Xeon build. I want to know if this is a good build or if there will be severe problems eg bottlenecking. I have also made an alternate build which is built up straight from the ground with a ryzen 5 1600 https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/RK9kVY .
The Xeon build is 150 gbp cheaper which I could spend on games and other interests. Is it worth building with Xeons and a 1070 or just get a ryzen 5 1600 with 1060?
I intend to upgrade my pc in 2-3 years to a better motherboard,cpu and ram if i go the Xeon build. I know there are things to such as if the motherboard has allows for video out etc which I will have to research.
If you guys have any other comments to make about my build or anything in general please do! Anyway thanks for any responses!
The main reason I want to build with the Xeons is since I could save some cash as one of my friends works at a place with servers and the servers are soon going to changed so I could get hold of 2 cpus a mother board and 64 gbs of ddr3 1666 ram. I have made a build https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/nmZNKZ for the Xeon build. I want to know if this is a good build or if there will be severe problems eg bottlenecking. I have also made an alternate build which is built up straight from the ground with a ryzen 5 1600 https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/RK9kVY .
The Xeon build is 150 gbp cheaper which I could spend on games and other interests. Is it worth building with Xeons and a 1070 or just get a ryzen 5 1600 with 1060?
I intend to upgrade my pc in 2-3 years to a better motherboard,cpu and ram if i go the Xeon build. I know there are things to such as if the motherboard has allows for video out etc which I will have to research.
If you guys have any other comments to make about my build or anything in general please do! Anyway thanks for any responses!