Xeon CPU for Gaming

[Bravissimo]

Hi, I have acquired a Xeon E5-2660 processor and was either thinking of either selling it or upgrading my components to utilize it. I want to know if its worth buying a LGA2011 motherboard to suit and would it be worthwhile considering I use my machine mostly for serious gaming.

 

[EarthDog]

I'm going to say not worth it. Its clockspeed is brutally low and is essentially made for multithreading applications of which 99% of games cant use more than 4c anyway. Selling that off and buying Haswell (4770K based system) would be my path.

 

[Pierre3400]

Plus those CPU's have 95w use at full load, which is just too much considering the speed.

 

[EarthDog]

8 cores... it makes sense.

 

[Bravissimo]

Thank you Earthdog for the sound advice. Ill try and get rid of it and go Haswell