[SOLVED] Xeon for gaming in 2020?

[AkiJOO]

Hello everyone!

I'm looking for an LGA1150 processor because I need more FPS in games and I'm having huge drops in-game even with low settings (currently having i5 4460 and 1060 3gb).
My question is that old Xeon processors(f.e. Intel Xeon E3-1285L v4) are suitable for gaming? Or should i stick with core series? I'm not really interested in high grapics, I just want to push out as many frames as possible (in such competetive games as overwatch, csgo, valorant etc.).

Thanks

 

[rgd1101]

for the same mobo? check to see if your motherboard support it.
no diferent then getting an i7

full system spec?
cpu/gpu temp and usage during the game?

 

[AkiJOO]

for the same mobo? check to see if your motherboard support it.
no diferent then getting an i7

full system spec?
cpu/gpu temp and usage during the game?

Oh, I just realized that the Xeon mentioned above isn't compatible but there's a bunch of other xeons. (E3-1280 or 81 v3)

RAM
16,0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 1600MHz
Motherboard
ASRock H81M-DGS R2.0 (CPUSocket) 34 °C
Graphics
C24FG7x (1920x1080@144Hz)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB (Gigabyte) 50 °C
Storage
447GB KINGSTON SA400S37480G (SATA-2 (SSD)) 27 °C

I'm not really sure about the ingame temperature, all I know that there's an indicator ingame (overwatch) which shows if my CPU is capping the frames or not. I can check the temperatures later if it's mandatory.

 

[xagyg]

I have 2 gaming PCs with Xeon processors. They are solid performers and aren't overworked. (However, I have a Xeon W3680 in one, and an X5647 in the other for the LGA 1366 sockets). Those you mention (E3-1280 or 81 v3) are overall better than the ones I have installed, so I think you'll be fine with either one.

 

[gingerrankin]

The problem is that both the I7s and the I7-like Xeons from the Haswell family are, by and large, priced indecently high for a multi-year second hand.

With the afterburner program (or similar) check if your bottleneck is in your CPU or your GPU.