Used Xeon for gaymen and emulation

Hey fags, i wanna upgrade my Phenom II cpu, and everything is expensive af where i live. I was wondering if it's worth it to buy a used xeon, mostly for gaymen and emulation, or if it's better to buy an old i5. Which cpu would you recommend? also, there's not a big used hardware market here, so maybe give me a couple of options in case i don't find one

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I used to be a big fan of used X58 stuff and Sandu Bridge stuff, but the ryzen 2400G performs like a 5GHz FX 8 core and is cheap, so I recommend getting that.

Your choices are X58 or its consumer variant, P55. X58 supports hex core chips, but will be more expensive.

If you can find these boards and chips, and find them really cheap as well, these are the last chips ever made by intel that will allow real bclk overclocking.

Overclocking these chips to at least 3.5ghz is required for anything close to achieving modern performance, lucky for you, these chips generally overclock like crazy, but also draw huge amounts of power to achieve these clocks.

If your a poorfag, hunt down a phenom II x6 black edition instead.

This, a 2600 might be better if you have discrete graphics already.

The "Xeon for vidya" meme has driven prices up on all boards that work with the sticker trick, server boards, and various Z97 stuff that also works, to the point where it's gonna be exactly the same price-wise as mid-end AMD hardware

I was gonna build a hexacore xeon out of used parts, but the boards were so pricey, I ended up getting a 990FX board with 16GB and an 8 core for $350, It's insane how expensive a used board is, we're only getting to the point where 775 boards are cheap now, and that shit's over a decade old.

It's only gonna get worse, my fucky Z97-A board is now $200 used, I paid $80 for it on Newegg, and you can blame DDR4 prices for pushing people towards Haslel again

>tfw my new in box 990FXA-UD3 is worth over $200 according to ebay cocksuckers

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>He doesn't want a $450 combo from the fucking carpet

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Ryzen has made old server parts obsolete. Unless you want to save up on RAM by getting DDR3, brand new Ryzen CPUs will always outperform used Xeons (both gaming and productivity) on the same price while also having warranty. Ryzen also supports ECC just like Xeons.
All of what I said is null if you manage to find a local cheap ass Xeon+motherboard. Check if the Xeon has decent clock speeds.
These should be your priorities:
>Brand new Ryzen build
>Used Xeon/i7 from Sandy Bridge generation and above build
>Brand new FX build
>Used FX build
>Used pre Sandy Bridge Xeon build
>meme tier: Used Opteron build