i3 6100 vs Intel Xeon E-5 2670

[aries757]

what is best way? easiest was to do i3 6100 but xeon would prob have more performance, and how would price range, for xeon i'd use an cyroig c7 fan, and some cheap lga 2011 mobo

[Streetguru]

1 minute ago, aries757 said:

what is best way? easiest was to do i3 6100 but xeon would prob have more performance, and how would price range, for xeon i'd use an cyroig c7 fan, and some cheap lga 2011 mobo

the xeon is probably fine overall for gaming if you're sure that motherboard works

the i3 would have slightly better single core performance

[glitchmaster0001]

3 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

the xeon is probably fine overall for gaming if you're sure that motherboard works

the i3 would have slightly better single core performance

the Xeon's motherboard is the downside, finding one will be pretty expensive. 

[Streetguru]

4 minutes ago, glitchmaster0001 said:

the Xeon's motherboard is the downside, finding one will be pretty expensive. 

Says he has one lying around I think

 

also the motherboard will be lacking in a lot of features most likely as it's more for servers/workstations, mostly just gimmicks though

[aries757]

15 hours ago, Streetguru said:

Says he has one lying around I think

 

also the motherboard will be lacking in a lot of features most likely as it's more for servers/workstations, mostly just gimmicks though

no i dont, i new to pc building, but thanks 

[SLAYR]

28 minutes ago, aries757 said:

what is best way? easiest was to do i3 6100 but xeon would prob have more performance, and how would price range, for xeon i'd use an cyroig c7 fan, and some cheap lga 2011 mobo

Cheap 2011 board, LOL.

 

You are looking at $250USD for an used x79 board. and the chips have gone up to $80 per chip from $50, not worth it Unless you go dual cpus.

 

If you have programs that can use 16 threads the xeon will annihilate the i3, but for single threaded performance the i3 is way better, if you are just gaming get an i3, or try to get an i5.

[aries757]

14 hours ago, SLAYR said:

Cheap 2011 board, LOL.

 

You are looking at $250USD for an used x79 board. and the chips have gone up to $80 per chip from $50, not worth it Unless you go dual cpus.

 

If you have programs that can use 16 threads the xeon will annihilate the i3, but for single threaded performance the i3 is way better, if you are just gaming get an i3, or try to get an i5.

kk, should i do i5 2500k or 6100k

[Streetguru]

16 minutes ago, aries757 said:

no i dont, i new to pc building, but thanks 

Then no just get an i3 6100

 

or if you want 8 threads at a cheap price, search hard though old OEM systems for 2nd gen i7 stuff

What's your full budget and what are you going to use your PC for?

[aries757]

14 hours ago, Streetguru said:

Then no just get an i3 6100

 

or if you want 8 threads at a cheap price, search hard though old OEM systems for 2nd gen i7 stuff

What's your full budget and what are you going to use your PC for?

gaming, podcast/livestreaming, skype, some video editing.

[Streetguru]

3 minutes ago, aries757 said:

gaming, podcast/livestreaming, skype, some video editing.

so multi-threaded machine then, what budget, if your budget is only for an i3 an FX 8 core is not a terrible option if you don't want to deal with used parts, but you will be limited in per core performance with it

 

I use one daily and it works fine if your goal isn't 144hz dota 2 or some other very CPU intensive games

 

Once you OC to 4+ghz which is easy, you basically have multi-threaded performance on par with a haswell i7, though the chip turbos to 4.2ghz from the get go

 

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