With the new dawn of Ivy Bridge E, we know that there is the new 4960x, 4930k, and 4820k, but want I am curious about is how the new e5 2687w v2 could perform as an Ivy bridge E gaming cpu.
I know all about how games don't utilize the full potential of an xeon processor, and still is optimized for those quad core cpu's. But if you were to go all out and make the fastest possible gaming pc in the world, would you choose the e5 2687w v2 for it, or the 4960x? From looking at previous gaming benchmarks on the sandy bridge e xeon processors, they were awesome on the physics side of gaming, and even held really high frames that would even compete with the 3970x or 3770k at the time. But for this ultimate gaming pc, this would have to shoot for running games at 4k at the highest settings possible, which I don't know if Ivy Bridge-E processor's would have an advantage over the smaller haswell cpu's.
What makes me concerned about the 2687w v2 is that it actually has a high clock speed up to 4.0ghz, and can utilize 1866mhz ram without having to O'cing the cpu. Plus it will use the new 22nm architecture which I don't know if that will make that much of a difference in gaming.
So would it be a good cpu for the top of the line gaming?
I know all about how games don't utilize the full potential of an xeon processor, and still is optimized for those quad core cpu's. But if you were to go all out and make the fastest possible gaming pc in the world, would you choose the e5 2687w v2 for it, or the 4960x? From looking at previous gaming benchmarks on the sandy bridge e xeon processors, they were awesome on the physics side of gaming, and even held really high frames that would even compete with the 3970x or 3770k at the time. But for this ultimate gaming pc, this would have to shoot for running games at 4k at the highest settings possible, which I don't know if Ivy Bridge-E processor's would have an advantage over the smaller haswell cpu's.
What makes me concerned about the 2687w v2 is that it actually has a high clock speed up to 4.0ghz, and can utilize 1866mhz ram without having to O'cing the cpu. Plus it will use the new 22nm architecture which I don't know if that will make that much of a difference in gaming.
So would it be a good cpu for the top of the line gaming?