i need a replacement socket lga 771 motherboard for my server/gaming rig.

[stoggs1]

So 16 gigs of ddr2 ram and 2 quad core xeons at 3ghz would bottleneck a 760 or 770? I trust your opinions, if I didn't I wouldn't post on this forum it just doesn't make sense to me well at least the CPUs. That's 8 physical processing cores. How can that bottle neck that much? And I found a a 3 ghz quad on ebay for 30 and ddr2 server ram is very cheap. Well I may get me a new PC also. I haven't quite decided yet. Money is just pretty tight for me right now that's y I wanted to repair my current PC right now and either upgrade it or get a new one in the future

 

[OneMoar]

So 16 gigs of ddr2 ram and 2 quad core xeons at 3ghz would bottleneck a 760 or 770? I trust your opinions, if I didn't I wouldn't post on this forum it just doesn't make sense to me well at least the CPUs. That's 8 physical processing cores. How can that bottle neck that much? And I found a a 3 ghz quad on ebay for 30 and ddr2 server ram is very cheap. Well I may get me a new PC also. I haven't quite decided yet. Money is just pretty tight for me right now that's y I wanted to repair my current PC right now and either upgrade it or get a new one in the future

you don't seem to understand it so ill repeat my self
1. very few games can use 8 cores most use a MAX of 6 and even those titles are a few and far between

2. its not about how much ram you have its about how fast it is 8GB is more then enough for pretty much anything

3. a xeon of that era is quite slow compared to today's chips a entry level quad core such as the i5 4440 core for core the i5 will be faster http://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp[]=1709&cmp[]=2017
even at a lower clock speed the entry level i5 is gonna walk all over it to say nothing of the better power consumption and lower heat output

4. those old xenon's use a FSB link to communicate with eatchother one of the limitations of that is with BOTH cpu's installed the buss is shared between the two chips so any application that COULD use both cpu's and 8 cores in total is gonna have a performance penalty because they are sharing the fronside buss with EACH-OTHER + the rest of the system its why starting with LGA1366 intel moved the front-side buss and north bridge onto the CPU and introduced the QPI link to fix this problem
5. now can you install a GTX 760 and a bunch of DDR2 and see a performance gain .. sure 10-15fps maby. in is it worth the time trouble and expense over just building a new LGA 1150 system no way in frigging hell because if you spent the money on a new core i5 system you would pickup that 10 or 15FPS AND still have a upgrade path later the 570 is a DX11 gpu btw

 

[Batou1986]

anything using the core2 arch is going to be a bottleneck
its almost like how a modern 4 cylinder engine can put out as much power as a V8 from 30 years ago

 

[OneMoar]

anything using the core2 arch is going to be a bottleneck
its almost like how a modern 4 cylinder engine can put out as much power as a V8 from 30 years ago

in the case of the GPU
it would be like putting a small block from 1982 chevy into a 1997 chevy truck that came with a v6 you might gain a little bit of power but the fuel consumption/power to weight ratio would be terrible

 

[stoggs1]

Ok I get what your what saying but I was reading since the launch of the current gen consoles ps4 and xb one more PC games are supposed to be threaded for 8 cores so that's y I was thinken of going with 2 quad xeons. I do get what you guys are saying but my PC did run modern games quite well before I broke the board. For example in crysis 3 at 720p res I ran a mix of high and very high settings with 2x aa and averaged 40 fps throughout the whole campaign.

 

[Aquinus]

Ok I get what your what saying but I was reading since the launch of the current gen consoles ps4 and xb one more PC games are supposed to be threaded for 8 cores so that's y I was thinken of going with 2 quad xeons. I do get what you guys are saying but my PC did run modern games quite well before I broke the board. For example in crysis 3 at 720p res I ran a mix of high and very high settings with 2x aa and averaged 40 fps throughout the whole campaign.

Very few games does what Crysis 3 does with respect to multi-core usage. It's very rare that you'll find that in a game. Not to mention it's only going to get more compute heavy. You're better off getting something modern if the money is there. Also the Core 2 chips weren't that bad clock for clock as iX chips. It's moving the memory controller to the CPU that yielded the most tangible benefits. A benefit of skt771 is that with 5000P chipset, you can run quad-channel DDR2. A while back I managed to get four Xeon X5450s at work for direct cheap for some older servers and they're quick when paired with 5000P and DDR2 FB-DIMMs at 667Mhz.

This route isn't cheap though, get something new. A Pentium or an i3 would probably perform better to be honest.