Uploaded February 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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I bought Intel's very best Ivy Bridge processor from 2013, the Xeon E5-2697V2 with, at the time unbelievable, 12 Cores, 24 Threads and a launch price of a whopping $2614! Now this CPU can be had for around $40, but how does it handle newer games and is it worth getting?

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