Upgrade from FX8150 to Xeon E5-2660

[thelargechic]

I sold an 850w psu, fx8150 and motherboard to my friend for $340 and ended up spending $454 on an Intel DX79si motherboard and a E5 2660
was curious how much gaming performance boost I will get and video editing performance boost I will get. I'm running 3 R9 290's so will I would the xeon lift some of the 8150s bottleneck?

 

[Darkbreeze]

There are no 850w processors so that must be a typo.

What version of E5-2660 is it. 1, 2, 3?

Either way it's probably better than the 8150 for most processes simply due to the core performance, but by how much depends on which revision it is.

 

[thelargechic]

it's an E5 2660v1 and when I said 850w I was stating I sold an 850w psu along with the bundle

 

[Darkbreeze]

Well, for gaming, it barely nudges the 8150 due to it's older architecture and slow clock speed, and those figures were assuming a V2 chip. I'd probably rather have an overclocked 8150 for gaming. The large number of cores (8 cores, 16 threads) don't really offer anything for gaming processes as even current 8 core chips without hyperthreading really don't take advantage of all the cores in most cases. Certainly not more than 6-8 threads.

For other tasks like rendering video, editing 3D graphics and other highly multi-threaded tasks, it might offer some advantage but it's a pretty old configuration and would be better suited to use as a home server, htpc or for use with VM's. Again, if the application is highly threaded, that may mitigate some of the lack of core speed and IPC performance from it being an older architecture. If it was a V2 or V3 revision, it might be different.