Dual Xeon's for Gaming...

Hello,

I currently have a P4 3.0E running at 3.45Ghz (230 FSB) on an IC7-G board with 1GB BH-5 running at 2-3-3-6. I've been reading a bit about dual xeon setups and have a few questions. I have a couple "leftover" servers sitting in my apartment, both have 2x 2.4Ghz XEON SL73L 533FSB procs.

Also, I am in the process of building a massive storage array (4x300GB in RAID5). In order to do this, I'm going to have to build a new machine. Now, to my question:

Does it make sense for me to pickup a NCCH-DL and some new TCCD and run my primary (ie gameing and programming workstation) on the Dual system? What type of performace difference will I experience while playing games like CSS? My LCD requires me to run games at 1920x1200, so losing a noticable amount of performace in gaming is unacceptable to me, as I'm right at 60fps now (vsync'd). I would love to OC these procs I have laying around, but I wouldn't be that upset if I just put them in another system which ran my NFS.

TIA.

there is no noticeable gain for a duallie unless the game is encoded for dual processers

Ok, but would the processing speeds be equivilant for gaming? Say a XEON running at 16x220 (3.5GHz) compared to a P4 running at 15x230 (3.45GHz).

Basically I'm asking if XEONS = P4s speed for speed in games?

yes the speed is the same, except you can game and encode a video at the same time with no slowdown in your game.

Just think as the Xeon in terms of a single CPU for gaming. It can only be equal or slower than a system with similar CPU speed and FSB.

At least this is the impression I got when I played on a Xeon. An overclocked 1.6 Xeon overclocked to 2.4 was equal to about a 2.4C. Same style of RAM PC3200 (2.5,3,3,7) and 9800Pros. The dual was just able to do other things while I gamed tho, such as run BT, encode a movie and burn a DVD without a bit of lag.