Hi, I have managed to lay my hands on an Intel quad-core Xeon (E5410) 2.3 GHZ CPU and am considering using it to build a new machine with. I would like to build a machine with good performance for gaming.

Is this a good idea or a bad idea?

The Xeon series of CPU's are intended for Servers and not general desktop machines so i was wondering if anyone has tried this with good results? Will mainstream games and apps run without error on this CPU?

Also, can anyone recommend a Mobo for this CPU for gaming?

Cheers guys

RAM is slower for Xeons. Go with a Core 2 quad proc. In my humble opinion.

I suspect the processor is stolen.
Hence I refuse to discuss the matter any further.
I ask others do the same.

just a quick look, Motherboards for this thing are $$$$$$$

Heres a list for them,
http://www.intel.com/cd/channel/re [...] 320262.htm

Also The ram is FB-DIMM which in turn is $$$$$$$$

667 / 533MHz FB-DIMM (Fully Buffered DIMM) ECC DDR2 SDRAM 72-bit, 240-pin gold-plated DIMMs

best bet is to try and sell it as the TC says get a Q6600..

Most Xeons are not fully supported by the desktop chipsets so you would have to buy a server board which will not OC well and has to use the more expensive and slower FB-DIMMs.

I suggest a Q6600 since it will be cheaper and better for gaming. So a P5K-E WiFi/AP(P35) which is great for basic OC'ing and very stable is $140, Q6600 is $270 and the ram PC-6400(DDR2-800) is about $100 for 2GB of nice OC'ing RAM. Total is $510. Compare that but the performance difference will make the Xeons price seem much higher than that of the Core2Quad.

Just get a Q6600, 8800GT or HD3870 and some nice ram/mobo and game on.

i see you are a guilty until proven innocent type then?

Zenmaster,

I joined this forum, for the purpose of telling you how much of a butt hole you are. The person asked you a legitimate question, and you have the audacity to attack someone's character that you don't even know. I would "ask", that you take that sad attitude of yours and do some changing for the better. For the person that asked the initial question, I wish I could ask forgiveness on behalf of this individual, however, I can't find it within me to pony up for such ignorance.

As others have mentioned, the RAM needed along with the motherboard would not make your Xeon an ideal gaming build CPU.

Hahaha...thanks, BadTrip. I didn't even notice the date. LOL.

Who keeps digging up these old threads?

Necrothread -10

I would go with it because it has SSE4 technology and a Level 3 cache. As far as I know none of the other intel cpus has the level 3 cache