Xeon E5507 2.27GHz good for gaming?

[pilot_riaz]

Hi,
I have been out of pc gaming for a few years due to consoles and am getting back into pc games now.

I have been given a Dell T3500 Xeon E5507 2.27GHz 12GB RAM and was wondering if I put a 1060 or 1070 Nvidia GeForce Graphics Card will the latest games like Battlefield, Call of Duty play smoothly on this.

I have purchased the Acer Predator Z35 35 inch Widescreen Curved Monitor (21:9, VA, LED, 144 Hz, 4 ms, G-Sync v2, 100M:1, Euro/UK, Acer EcoDisplay) Max resolution 2560 x 1080 pixels
Will the graphics card run fine on this monitor?

Thanks, Riaz

 

[MrN1ce9uy]

With that particular Xeon being a quad-core without hyper-threading, due to it's old architecture and lower speed, I expect there will be a relatively significant bottleneck playing Battlefield 1 with a GTX 1070, or even a 1060.

With that said, either of those GPUs will be great for that monitor, but you won't be able to achieve anywhere near the GPUs potential with that processor. Maybe there is another Xeon w/ hyper-threading and higher clock speeds for your motherboad, except I'm not sure which CPU your motherboard will support.

I searched and found a list of CPUs that one particular T3500 would support, but there may be different models. From the list I found, the Xeon X5670 was the best, it's a 6-core 12-thread @ 2.93GHz and here it is for $10 on Ebay. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Xeon-SLBV7-X5670-2-93GHz-12MB-L3-Cache-Socket-LGA1366-Processor-/222479643179?hash=item33ccd1f22b:g:~EUAAOSwHptY9hNs

[strike]It may still bottleneck though[/strike], but hey it's only $10 and you get 12 processing threads @ 2.93GHz vs your 4 threads at 2.27GHz.

*Here is the Xeon X5660 (6C/12T) playing BF1 w/ a GTX 1070 at 1440p getting 70fps w/ GPU usage maxed at 99%. I'm amazed right now at the value in these old LGA1366 Xeons; wishing I had an LGA 1366 system to put one in lol. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MN_6T18tR8

 

[MrN1ce9uy]

I just noticed that X5660 in the video was overclocked @ 3.6GHz. Maybe keep that in mind if you don't get the same results.