Hi

I have been offered a system with the following specs and want to know if it would work for gaming (mainly LFS, rF, Race07) as well since it isn't based on desktop technology.

Price isn't a issue here because the whole system will cost under €500 so I don't care that Xeon processors or Xeon ready mainboards are more expensive than the unsual desktop/gaming PCs.

System specs that I know are:

Intel 5000X chipset
Intel Xeon Dual Core 5160 @3000mhz 4MB cache
8GB RAM DDR2
1 TB Samsung SpinPoint F3 hard drive
Gigabyte GeForce 560 GTX 1GB
Win7 home

From what I know the Xeon proceccors should be a little more reliable and moch more expensive but shouldn't affect gaming in a negative way but I'm not sure if I should go for the offer.

Any thoughts on this?

That is a pretty heavy duty machine for very few pennies.

I use a Xeon server running win server 2003 OS for another type of sim system,(OpenSimulator Virtual Reality system), rock solid performance, reliable as the proverbial Swiss Watch.

Never tried running one on Win 7 home edition, although it should be stable and not let you down, main point being, ALL Windows operating systems since XP have all been modified Win NT server OS at the heart anyway.

Try it, if it doesn't run LFS as a desktop machine, you still have one hell of a good server at a good price.

I tried it and it actually does work quite well - still 60+ FPS with rFactor on maximum resolution, maximum effects and max. anti-aliasing - and LfS runs at least as good

I even have a spare Nvidia Quadro FX card left