Is the Xeon E5-2620 2.00 Ghz CPU good for gaming and editing?

[Jarinx]

How does the Xeon E5-2620 V1 perform in games if paired with a good graphics card like a Rx 470 and 32gb of RAM and also in editing 1440p and 1080p footage? And what would be the best budget motherboard paired with this processor? Any help would be appreciated

 

[bicycle_repair_man]

For gaming, probably not very well. The old architecture combined with the slow clock speed is a bad mix.

For editing (photo and video I assume), it should cope rather well, especially if Adobe programs are being used.

 

[synphul]

It might do ok editing video, not so great for gaming. It has 6 cores but the clock speeds are slow and that's going to kill performance. If you can find an lga2011 (not 2011v3) motherboard used for a low price it might be decent for inexpensive video editing. New those boards are running $300-600, of the few that are still available to buy new in the u.s. (not sure about other regions). Ebay has them $200-300 used.

At those prices you'd be better off with something like this for skylake
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230 V5 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($251.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X150M-PRO ECC Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($125.22 @ Amazon)
Total: $377.21
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-09-26 09:53 EDT-0400

Or this for haswell
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($252.55 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: ASRock H97M PRO4 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($65.98 @ Newegg)
Total: $318.53
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-09-26 09:55 EDT-0400

Even the 'older' haswell xeon 1231v3 is 75% faster single threaded performance which suggests it would outperform the 6 core 2620 even in multithreaded scenarios. It's basically the same as an i7 4770 without the integrated graphics, cheaper than going with a 4th or 6th gen i7 without giving up too much performance.