Dual e5620 for gaming or.. i7 980x ?

are dual xeon ok for gaming ? or just go for the 980x ?
parts needed : Processor , Motherboard , Ram , CPU Cooler , HDD For Boot , Extra HDD For Storage , Thermal Paste

first choice :
2 x E5620 ( Spire Thermax Eclipse II for first processor, H70 For second . )
Supermicro X8DTE-F-O
2 x ( 3 x 2 Crucial 1333 EEC RAM )
74 GB Recertified Velociraptor
2TB Recertified Caviar Black 2 TB
Noctua NT-H1

Please note that i aleardy bought spire thermax eclipse II

second choice :
i7 980x ( H70 )
Asus Rampage Extreme III
3 x 4 1600 Mhz G.skill Ripjaws DDR3
74 GB Recertified Velociraptor
2 TB Recertified Caviar Black 2 TB
Noctua NT-H1

in both choices i will use parts from my old rig : HAF X ( can i put in 2 x H70 in this casing ? lol ) , Gigabyte 5970 , Power Supply Coolermaster GX 750 Watt ( will this be enough ? )

i will use this new rig for gaming. not workstations or servers ..

i want to buy these parts from newegg .. when i come to new york and ship it to my aunt's apartment ( i live in indonesia.. sorry if my english is bad )

thanks before.!

The higher the resolution games are played at, the progressively less the cpu and pure clock speed really matters. Pair up a $1000 980x cpu with a $150 gpu at 1920x1200 res, vs. and $85 AMD X3 cpu with a $250 gpu, and the AMD rig kicks the Intel rigs rear....

Lower the resolution to 800x600, maybe the roles are reversed...but $1000 worth of Xeon or 980x....money wasted, pure and simple...

whatt? playing 800x600 with 5970 ?? i'm even using X6 1055T now..

yes, thats what i think.. maybe there will be a new Xtreme edition Q4 .. but buying 2 xeons will not hurt,, i think the new extreme edition will be 8 cored. . and that's what xeons got. .

The 6 core cpus get lower framerates in games than the 4 core models at same clock speed....

Buying xeons and a dual socket MB and giving a system 3-4 times the memory only to get 10 fps less seems useless......

More sockets/and/or cores is not always better for gaming. Far from it, in fact.

Put the money into the video card, which is 90% of the performance at hi-res...