Getting a new CPU wondering if it would be enough.

[trademarkgamer]

I have had it with my Intel Pentium Dual core, it has been the bottle neck of my computer and I have been looking to run dolphin.

My specs as of now
Intel Pentium G6960 @3.52 ghz
8gb of DDR 3 ram at 1333
Nvidia GTX 650

I had already bought my new CPU and it is coming in the mail and I am wondering if it will be good enough to run dolphin stable.
The cpu I got was a intel Xeon 3440
http://ark.intel.com/products/42928/

I plan to overclock it to at least 3.2 ghz

[Anti-Ultimate]

Don't expect wonders.

[trademarkgamer]

Would playing games at x2 ir be wonders?

[Anti-Ultimate]

That would be related to your GPU unless your CPU limits at 1xIR already.

[trademarkgamer]

I can get gamecube games to run at a sketchy 25-30 fps but I would like full frames that the games can put out.

[admin89]

Nah , the "new" CPU will have the same performance as your Pentium if not worse
Both of them are based on 4 years old Nehalem Architecture . Since Dolphin is a dual core applition , a Quad Core is 10->20% slightly faster than Dual Core due to background processing
Penitum G69xx are monsters at overclocking (4.0GHz is possible if you have aftermarket cooling + higher voltage , stable : 3.8GHz) . Xeon is quite bad

[ulao]

You could have gotten the 3570k for 2 bills? That is not much more then what those zeons go for. Did you get it at a steel of a price or something?

[NaturalViolence]

Return the xeon and get a haswell motherboard and cpu.

Xeon is quite bad

Xeon refers to the server version of any cpu. Some of them are bad and some are good. A haswell xeon will be just as fast as a comparable i5/i7 model.

[admin89]

"Xeon is quite bad at overclocking" was what i meant .

[trademarkgamer]

Alright, thanks for all of your input on this. I got the Xeon at a steal of a price for 70$ since I'm rather on the poor side this year and I wanted something that would do multitasking a lot better than my dual core. Also I don't think this Xeon is bad at overclocking, looking around I found reports of it going to 4.0ghz stable.