When the Xeon E3 1230v2 was released, it was designed for servers and workstations which needed multiple strong cores and threads to perform its best. However the huge price tag it carried, due to Intel's high standards for processors designed for servers, made them impractical for gaming systems. Fast forward 8 generations, you can pick these up for less than $20 and pair it with an rx580 and 16gb of ddr3 1600mhz and enjoy most games at high settings, making very few compromises to video quality. All in all, this old server/workstation chip can facilitate gamers on a showstring (like myself) to build a quite capable gaming computer very cheaply. If you don't mind compromising upgrade paths in the future.