A few months ago my brother passed away and he gave me his pc. Cody=Brother was the computer wiz of the family and i don't know all that much about them.... Okay it's a bunch of jibberish to me! haha. Anywho I was thinking of doing some lite gaming but i dont want to by a game that i cant run. it would be just a waste of money. And before anyone here asked if i've gone to the "Can I run it" website, yes i have but it keeps saying hardware not recognized or something similar. I would also like to know what else I can do with this thing. Anyway here is the jibberish i was talking about;-)
Processor 1 Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz
Processor 2 Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz
Manufacturer Intel
Speed 2.4 GHz
Number of Cores 16
Number of threads 32
Motherboard ASUS z10pe-d16 ws ssi eeb lga2011-3
CPU ID BFEBFBFF000306F2
Family 06
Model 3F
Stepping 2
Revision
Video Card 1 AMD Radeon ™ R9 390 Series Crossfire
Manufacturer ATI
Chipset AMD Radeon ™ R9 390 Series
Dedicated Memory 8192 MB
Total Memory 8192 MB
Pixel Shader Version 5.1
Vertex Shader Version 5.1
Hardware T & L Yes
Vendor ID 1002
Device ID 67B1
Plug and Play ID VEN_1002&DEV_67B1&SUBSYS_20151462&REV_80
Driver Version 15.300.1025.1001
Video Card 2 AMD Radeon ™ R9 390 Series Crossfire
Manufacturer ATI
Chipset AMD Radeon ™ R9 390 Series
Dedicated Memory 8192 MB
Total Memory 8192 MB
Pixel Shader Version 5.1
Vertex Shader Version 5.1
Hardware T & L Yes
Vendor ID 1002
Device ID 67B1
Plug and Play ID VEN_1002&DEV_67B1&SUBSYS_20151462&REV_80
Driver Version 15.300.1025.1001
Video Card 3 Microsoft Basic Display Adapter
Manufacturer
Chipset
Dedicated Memory 0.0 B
Total Memory 0.0 B
Pixel Shader Version
Vertex Shader Version
Hardware T & L
Vendor ID 1A03
Device ID 2000
Plug and Play ID VEN_1A03&DEV_2000&SUBSYS_85F91043&REV_30
Driver Version 10.0.10240.16384
Memory 64 GB
Kingston 8x8 GB DDR4 2133 CL 13 ECC DIMMS
Operating System Microsoft Windows 10 (build 10240), 64-bit
Service Pack 0
Size 64 Bit
Edition
Version 10.0.10240
Locale 0409
BIOS
Version American Megatrends Inc. 1001
Manufacturer
Date 03/17/15
Display Maximum Resolution 2560 x 1080
Sound Device 1 AMD High Definition Audio Device
Driver Version 10.0.0.2
Sound Device 2 Scarlett 2i2 USB
Driver Version 2.5.128.1
Sound Device 3 Realtek High Definition Audio
Driver Version 6.0.1.7572
DVD
CD
Drive 1
Size 4.5 TB
Free 3.5 TB
Drive 2
Size 3.6 TB
Free 3.4 TB
Drive 3
Size 452.6 GB
Free 203.2 GB
And yes i had to look up how to get this info... I just hope i did it right. So what do you guys and gal's think? What kind of games can i play? What can I do with this big black box?
2 CPUs, 390 crossfire, 64 gigs of ram....
M8, you can play any modern title for the next few years and not even use half your CPU or ram.
You're pretty much going to be able to run anything on that, though you may want to consider selling the xeons and getting an i5 for less of a CPU bottleneck, that thing was probably a server
Also use Speccy
Why on earth would 16 thread 2.4 GHz CPUs be a bottle neck???
Two R9 390s?
You can run it.
You can run anything.
Sorry about your loss. Judging from that PC, your brother was a true techie. He will be missed.
Because most games only use 4 threads? and 3ghz is more reasonable for less of a bottleneck from intel CPUs
Well, judging by the specs I think you should be able to run just about anything out there that you wanted.
Your CPUs are absurdly powerful in tandem, you have more RAM than you could conceivably use just gaming, and the two graphics cards are no slouches even individually. It also appears that the computer has a solid state drive and two normal hard drives, so storage is more than adequate looking.
I fail to believe 2.4 is not enough for most games. Especially with dx12 shenanigans commongsoon.
Lol with those specs it more of a question of what game can you not play? Hahaha your brother (rip) made himself a sever grade pc with two cpu's this is probably why that program couldnt recognize the hardware...this also might cause some trouble with games, but I'm pretty sure most games won't be able two fully utilize both cpus at the same time. I mean Windows is just barely getting that optimization for its os so do not expect everything to run twice as fast..but yea you should be able to run games even up to 4k, but with lag.
I run two xeons with no bottle neck. Just because it is xeon doesnt mean that it has to be for a server. With the xeon he has, they will blitz through any game, dont believe everything you have heard about clock speeds, its not 1999 anymore.
It'll be alright, but like they're on a bit older architecture so the IPC is lower, a modern haswell i5 would be more desirable for gaming
Really good machine for 3d rendering and video editing and compositing, blender would kick ass on it.
Gaming will work fine for a couple of years, it's a waste to use it for gaming really.
You probably won't need a new computer for your routine stuff for another 5 to 8 years.
Any computer wiz would approve of that machine, give it hell.
First of all sincere condolence to you for your loss. Then on to your question: you can play any game you feel like, but you'll struggle a bit in games that requires a lot of power from a single core since the clock on those CPUs is kinda low. I'm not going to go into too much detail since you said you're not a tech savy person. You could host a server on it and play with your friends at the same time to use the machine you have at the full potential.
Benchmark it
I was looking at the wrong one on arc then
the E5 2630 was launched in 2012 and was Sandy Bridge I believe but the v3 is a DDR4 Haswell chip. The i5 will have a better single thread performance, however the v3 does have a good turbo that will allow it to run fairly demanding games comfortably.