Xeon E5405 Server and Gaming?

[lazyboy947]

My brother got a Dell Poweredge 2900 with a single 2ghz xeon e5405 quad core, 6gb ddr2 ecc, and 2 250gb 7200 hdds in raid0, this is a 4 slot rack server, and has plenty room, but only has a x8 pci-e slot. I can get an adapter to get to a x16 slot pretty cheap, and pairing it with a 7750 not having a pci-e connection in it, which is fine lol

With Win7 installed and having the error checking ram, and using an addon card to get the gpu to work, and the slower clock speed of the cpu how well would this run games? being compared to a reg desktop cpu with a 7750 and other specs. Also would any game benefit from adding an extra e5405 to the unused slot?

Edit: Just curious because even tho its prob just going to be used for a home server, just looking at the possibilities and wanna see if its better than a 4gb ddr2, athlon 64 x2 6400+, and 6770

 

[Cazalan]

2Ghz is painfully slow for modern gaming. That CPU is 6 years old.

It would make for a good file server/web server.

 

[lazyboy947]

yeah, kinda assumed that the clock speed would be an issue, i guess was more of wondering really was how ecc would effect games, and really if running dual 2ghz cpus would change anything

 

[Cazalan]

ECC is for stability not speed. There's usually a slight hit with ECC.

The 6400+ would have an advantage with gaming from the higher clock speed except for some rare 3+ core enabled games.

For most games the E5405 would be comparable to the E6400 in this chart.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/spider-weaves-web,1728-26.html

 

[lazyboy947]

makes sense on the ram, and i actually use to use a e6420, so i get of performance from it. Any idea with having two of the xeons run together for gaming? Found that i could get another e5405 for about $50 just seems like good idea but pointless if the gain is minimal and or not going to use for gaming lol

 

[Cazalan]

makes sense on the ram, and i actually use to use a e6420, so i get of performance from it. Any idea with having two of the xeons run together for gaming? Found that i could get another e5405 for about $50 just seems like good idea but pointless if the gain is minimal and or not going to use for gaming lol

$50 is cheap but there really aren't that many games that use 5+ CPUs. That $50 would put you put you 1/3 of the way towards an CPU/MB bundle that would game a lot better than that older rig.

I might do it for the fun of it but it's still throwing good money after old tech. When there's a surplus of cheap new tech that's much higher performance.

Microcenter has a FX-6300/MB combo for $115 if you live near one of those.

 

[lazyboy947]

Well the server is not going to cost anything beside possibly another cpu, but that athlon machine that i mentioned is not my main machine and nor do i want to replace it as the gpu is from my crossfire setup and i barely use it, was really more for a reference, and id rather upgrade my current pc to a higher end gpu once the new gen gpus release.

As mentioned was really more just curious to the possibilities with it.

 

[Cazalan]

Add the CPU and do some F@H action.