Is This A Pc Worth Building

Is it worth building a PC with a Xeon proccessor?

What is your use case ? is it gaming? is it rendering 4k videos all day long?The xeons are specifically built to overcome loads which are spread over the entire core count. Hence if you are into lots of content creation then it may be worth the cost but if you want to play games then getting a cheaper for the buck consumer grade processor is more sensible. The reason being that games arent optimezed to spread its workload and hence dosent take advantage of say 8 cores. It really benifits when the IPC is high i.e the no of jobs a single core can do per sec in simple terms, which is how the consumer grade cpus are built. (and hence also overclocks better - less cores →less heat → better overclock)The xeons have a large number of cores but its standalone cores arent as strong as a core i7 7700 say not to mention they also cost a great deal more. I hope this answers the question.

Is it worth it to build a beast PC for Linux gaming?

Short answer is no it is not.Linux has a smaller “pool” of games compared to Windows.There are a lot of devs that try to change that but still you wont have access to all the games available for PC. Imagine that you’ve spent a fortune on a PC and you can’t run the latest game you so much wanted because it is not available. Also I am not very optimistic in how good Linux (as a system) handles modern gaming. You may find yourself facing problems that depend on your experience as a Linux user to solve them.If you want to build a beast PC (that is great thought) play your games on Windows “without problems” and do everything else in Linux.In my opinion Windows succeeded because of their role as a gaming-port cause I can’t think another reason or something they actually do right.I will leave you a funny little story here also for educational purposes.For 13 years through to the mid-’90s, Gabe Newell was “producer on the first three releases of Windows” at Microsoft. At the time, according to Newell, “it was common wisdom that it wasn’t possible to write a good game in Windows because of, well, unnamed technical reasons.” In 1993 Doom was released, and according to Newell it became the number one most-used program in the entire US, ahead of Windows. When you consider that Id Software was a company of just 12 people, and Microsoft already had hundreds of developers working on Windows, this was quite an achievement.Newell was disappointed that this game ran in MS-DOS, rather than Windows, and thus tasked some of his engineers to create a Windows port. According to an interview back in 2007, he then apparently called John Carmack at Id Software to say that Microsoft would do the port for free, and thus the port was eventually released as Doom 95. It is possible that the success of Doom, and Doom 95, showed developers that it was indeed possible to write top-notch games on Windows. It’s also worth noting that WinG, the precursor to DirectX, was maturing at the same time — perhaps it was a combination of factors that finally made Windows the de facto gaming platform.

Is a gaming PC worth the money?

A gaming PC is worth the money if one regularly plays newer games that require a good CPU and a video adapter that has a good graphics processing unit (GPU). As far as how much one wants to spend for a gaming PC, this very much depends on one’s personal budget and one’s personal preferences.A decent and capable gaming PC can be purchased or built for as little as $1,000 U.S. to $1,500 U.S. However, for this money, one cannot expect to have very best gaming PC out there, but would end up with one that is good enough to play most of the newer games out there. On the other extreme, one can spend as much as $20,000, $30,000, $40,000, or more on a gaming PC and would have the “latest and greatest” gaming PC that money can buy.The bottom line is that how much one is willing and able to spend on a gaming PC and how worthwhile it is to do so, is very subjective and is very much a matter of one’s personal preferences. So, whether or not it is worthwhile to spend $1,000, versus $2,000, versus $4,000, versus $20,000 on a gaming PC all has to do with one’s financial means and how much one is willing to spend on a gaming PC, relative to one’s financial means.Past a certain price point of around $3,000 to $4,000, the marginal benefit that one gets from spending more on a gaming PC diminishes. This means that the difference in performance and features between a $2,000 gaming PC versus a $4,000 one is quite significant. However, the difference in performance and features between a $4,000 gaming PC versus a $5,000 one will be much less. And the difference in performance and features between a $5,000 gaming PC versus a $7,000 one will be even less. Generally, as one spends more and more on a gaming PC, the less marginal improvements one will get.The best thing to do is to have a budget of how much you are willing and able to spend on a gaming PC and stick with that budget, focusing on spending your money on the features that are most crucial for gaming, such as single-core CPU performance, video adapter GPU performance, RAM (memory), and good monitor(s). The objective is to get the most performance for one’s money and to get the best value for one’s money. Therefore, it is much better to spend $2,500 on a good gaming PC that has been thoughtfully designed with parts that gives the best value for the money than to spend $5,000 on a gaming PC that was not thoughtfully designed with parts that one blindly spent money on, without any consideration for value for the money.

Is a Gaming PC really worth $1000?

I think for most people, the answer is an unequivocal “yes". I'm one of those people.And to be honest, a gaming PC that costs only $1000 USD is, perceivably, below par.In the photo attached below, you see a gaming PC I just finished building yesterday, and I just did the math, the components already cost me $1800 USD (I didn't include the dual monitors’ cost and costs of other gaming gears like mouse and keyboard). And I need to stress that, its performance is just SLIGHLY above average, given that my budget is limited. So now you have a clearer idea in mind as to how much an excellent gaming PC would possibly cost. I spent two days purchasing all the components and building my PC. I dare say that it's worth me building this PC and the money put in, when I found out how smooth it is to run the games I enjoy.Edit:I know some people may think that a gaming PC that costs $1800 is NOT slightly above average but WAY above average. I need to clarify why I said that. First, I’m currently living in Hong Kong, and PC components in Hong Kong are a little bit more expensive than those in the US and Europe. So, $1800 is a cost slightly inflated. Second, many of my friends who love gaming are using overclocked 1080-ti and 32gb RAM and a super expensive, delicate water-cooling system. So when they look at my 16gb RAM and dual GTX 1070 (by the time I’m answering this question, I removed the extra already) and air-cooling system, I would say my gaming setup is only slightly above average, in comparison.Edit 2: My PC specsCase: Corsair Carbide Series 275R; CPU: Ryzen 7 1800X; GPU: originally dual MSI Armor GTX 1070, but I removed one later; RAM: G.Skill 8GB X 2; dual HDD : WD WD20EARX 2TB X2; SSD: Samsung PM981 256GB; motherboard: an ASUS one, but couldn’t recall the details, will check later. Then, with an Antec PSU and a few Corsair cooling fans and a few Cooler Master MasterFan Pro 120 (low pressure), and 2 memory heatstick, and some RBG strips (not shown in the photo).