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AndrewBilotti

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I currently have a pc with a fx-8370 with 16gb of ram and a radeon r9 390. I am thinking of upgrading to a Dell T410 with 32gb of ram and dual Intel x5680s and keeping my gpus. My fx-8370 has been quite unpredictable in terms of power usage and gets super hot with my water cooler (a h100i v2). Would this upgrade be slower or faster? The games I usually play are PlayerUnknown's battlegrounds, Kerbal Space Program, Unturned, War Thunder, and World of Tanks. Oh and I am also a big fan of Just cause 3 and COD mw3. Thank you :)

Edit: I sould also do video editing from it
 
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This doesn't really seem all that practical for gaming. The x5680s might have a bit faster per-core performance than an FX-8370, but you would get even faster per-core performance from a current generation Kaby Lake or upcoming Coffee Lake CPU. The x5680 launched in 2010, after all. You might get more cores with the dual xeons, but no games are going to make use of 12 cores / 24 threads anytime soon. The vast majority of games don't see much benefit from having more than four cores, and typically four faster cores will outperform 12 slower cores in current games.

If you really want more than four cores for gaming, look to AMD's Ryzen, or Intel's Coffee Lake CPUs that should be launching in a week or so. The only way the Xeon system might be worth considering would be if it were priced extremely well, or if you regularly made use of some application that might benefit from having lots of slower cores, like certain video editing or rendering programs. Those processors aren't exactly ideal for gaming.

Edit: Also, 32GB of RAM is unnecessary for current games. Few games benefit from having more than 8GB of RAM, and 16GB would likely have you covered for the next couple years or more.
 
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The Xeons today are designed as workhorses. Powerhouse cpus built to crunch numbers etc, using as many threads as can be had and maximizing ram usage. Games are the opposite. For games you need a racehorse, not a workhorse. Using those dual Xeons to game on would be like trying to race NASCAR in a 1-ton diesel pickup.
 
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true...good games; AAA games, are just now slowly utilizing all 4 cores in core i5's and up, same wirth ryzen. xeons can crunch massive computations and do a Pi benchmark in the billions very fast. but my corei5 6400 with a 390 is prolly just as good in firestrike (gaming) benchmarks.
 
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Because clock speed is only a small portion of the entire processor.
You also have to consider individual core strength (which in this case is not impressive), and core/thread count (in this case, gaming does not need the plethora of threads).

You can never just use clock speed to compare processors outside of the same generation (IE 8320 vs 8350)
 
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Xeons also use different instruction sets to public use cpus,and are missing some of the instructions that games use. Not saying they won't work, they will, but just like the nvidia Tesla P100 (that's 12Gb - 16gpu card that barely plays Crysis3 decently) they aren't really designed for that application. I'm not really a fan of cpuboss, but even they agree it's not a good choice.
http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Xeon-X5680-vs-Intel-Core-i7-3770K
Considering games generally use 2-8 threads, having 24 available, with 12 threads on each cpu means you'll basically be using dual 130w cpus and not using but 75% of just 1 cpu at best, with approximately the same ability as your current FX cpu, which is @30% worse than a i7-3770k, or about 60% worse than a i7-7700k.

It's a work station, wonderful for rendering or other high thread/high ram usage apps, miserable for gaming.

I take back an earlier statement, you'd not be racing NASCAR in a 1-ton diesel pickup, much more like a John Deer.
 
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