is xeon x3430 better than i3 540 for gaming

santy74

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i am getting an Intel® Xeon® Processor X3430
(8M Cache, 2.40 GHz) for 1500s or 25$
my current rig is i3 540
1tb hdd
4gb ram
intel dh55tc lga1156 motherboard
gtx 650ti boost
corsiar 550watt powersupply
my question is :
is xeon x3430 better than my current processor ,also i am going to upgrade my ram to 8gb ..
will my config with xeon processor and more ram ...support new games and heavy apps like after effects
 
Xeon has more cores, but abysmal single-threaded performance due in part to its low clock speed. It would a bit of a downgrade for most things that don't use threads or cores well, but might be slightly faster at editing and conversion workloads and things of that nature.