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Xeon Or i5 for gaming?
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I've seen a few posts floating around in which someone puts a Xeon in the build instead of something like an i5. I know that the i5 have good single core performance versus the Xeons with better multi-core performance for things like servers, but why put one in a gaming rig?
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It depends. E3-1231 V3 is a 3.4GHz chip, 4460 is 3.2GHz. Same architecture, the Xeon just has HT so 4 cores, 8 threads as opposed to the i5's 4C/4T. Since the E3-1231 V3 is clocked higher, it will perform better than the 4460. An i5-4690k is 3.5GHz @ stock and can be overclocked to 4GHz usually fairly easily so that would out-perform the E3-1231 V3 in games that don't make use of more than 4 cores/threads. Xeon's are going to be better in editing/rendering and what not, than the i5 though. Basically, a hyperthreaded Xeon makes more sense than an i7 for some people, unless the user wants to overclock, in which case a 4690k or 4790k(if their budget allows) would be the best option. If you're not interested in overclocking but have a larger budget and can afford the Xeon over the i5 without any sacrifice elsewhere, then it'd be worth getting.
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That definitely lightens things up for me. Thank you kind sir.
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Sanctyy pretty much covered everything, just another thing The E3 Xeons ending in "5" have an IGPU,
but ones ending in "0" do not, also all E5 Xeons do not.
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with Xeons you can fiddle round with it's bus speed if you wanted too.
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