Xeon good for gaming?

[Bassblaster505]

i edit a lot of videos and play a lot of games, so is the Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3 good for that?how long would it take to render a 15 minute 1080p60 25000Kbps video take?

 

[KKAW]

i edit a lot of videos and play a lot of games, so is the Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3 good for that?how long would it take to render a 15 minute 1080p60 25000Kbps video take?

Yes for video editing it will do fine and it will be decent for gaming.

 

[blobbyblarker]

Since your doing gaming as well i would just get an i7 5960x

 

[Bassblaster505]

Since your doing gaming as well i would just get an i7 5960x

i thought the 5960X was very in-efficient in gaming, i thought everyone just used the 5930K instead

 

[KKAW]

Since your doing gaming as well i would just get an i7 5960x

i thought the 5960X was very in-efficient in gaming, i thought everyone just used the 5930K instead

They both work fine.

 

[wirefire99]

Your 2 goals are in conflict. Editing video is a multi-threaded application. The more cores you throw at it, the better it performs (in most cases) This also generally benefits significantly from things like CUDA from NVidia depending on the applications. Playing games on the other hand usually benefit most from high single core performance.

That is why the 5930K is preferred over the 5960X for gamers. The 5930 has 2 fewer cores but the base core clock speed is higher.

Either way most games are not CPU limited. So anything like a Xeon E5-2699, i7-5930K / 5960X will all perform well for games. The only other benefit of the Xeon is the ECC ram, the downfall is no overclock.

 

[tsnor]

For gaming i like this chart: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106-5.html

ALL of the following are considered to be roughly equal top tier for gaming:

Core i7-2600, -2600K, -2700K, -3770, -3770K, -3820, -3930K, -3960X, -3970X, -4770, -4770K, -4790K, -5775C, -5820K, 5930K, -5960X
Core i7-965, -975 Extreme, -980X Extreme, -990X Extreme
Core i5-5675C, -4690K, 4670K, -4590, -4670, -4570, -4430, -3570K, -3570, -3550, -3470, -3450P, -3450, -3350P, -3330, 2550K, -2500K, -2500, -2450P, -2400, -2380P, -2320, -2310, -2300

For video editing suggest you look at benchmarks of the software you are using to see if there is a measurable difference between more threads and 'fewer faster threads'. When i switch from an 8-thread i7-920 to a mildly OC 4-thread i5-4690K the newer chip ran handbrake about 30-50% faster than the older, higher thread count CPU. YMMV.