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Get a xeon that's like an i7.

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I was wondering if there was a way to get a i7 or i7-like performance for less. Also would this be a good deal 

http://www.amazon.com/i7-4770K-Quad-Core-Processor-Motherboard-Vengeance/dp/B00EPKF67S/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1414878759&sr=8-4&keywords=intel+i7

Xeon E3-1230 V3 + an H81 board

 

Or if you do more editing/rendering/other things that can use 8 cores/threads then gaming, then an 8-core AMD FX.

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The answer is no, get a i5 if you can't afford a i7. But again, we don't know your usage at all so...

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Oddly enough, I have been doing testing on this.

 

Basically, for example. at 4.7GHz, an i7 4790K scores 937cb on Cinebench R15. An i5 4690K (for all intensive purposes, I just disabled HT on my i7) scores 703cb at 4.7GHz.

 

You can't overclock enough on that i5 to close the gap. You can however get the Xeon, which will at stock speeds be near the i7 at stock speeds.

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Intel Xeon E3 1231 V3

Is it about the same cost as a "K" i5?

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Is it about the same cost as a "K" i5?

Close enough. A bit more but nothing too much. What are you doing with your PC that you'd want an i7?

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you didn't tell us what are you going to do with it, gaming? video editing ? just surfing the web? or maybe all of that 

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Close enough. A bit more but nothing too much. What are you doing with your PC that you'd want an i7?

Just some photo editing, a few video editing, and a bit gaming. 

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Just some photo editing, a few video editing, and a bit gaming. 

If you can live with a bit less performance in games (nothing too bad) then an 8-core AMD FX

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Second hand i7? Weird question :P also a Xeon would be a great choice I guess.

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Just some photo editing, a few video editing, and a bit gaming. 

in that case if the purpose is to focus on multi-threaded performance and lower cost, something that will render faster and be better at photo editing than a core i5 is an overclocked FX 8 core CPU.

otherwise if you're still after gaming performance (cause yeah the FX sucks at gaming compared to modern haswell CPU's) then as the others said the xeon E3-1230V3 and E3-1231V3 are both

hyper-threaded quad core CPUs (respectively similar to the core i7-4770 and core i7-4790)

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go i7 then and lots of ram also ssd is a must

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in that case if the purpose is to focus on multi-threaded performance and lower cost, something that will render faster and be better at photo editing than a core i5 is an overclocked FX 8 core CPU.

otherwise if you're still after gaming performance (cause yeah the FX sucks at gaming compared to modern haswell CPU's) then as the others said the xeon E3-1230V3 and E3-1231V3 are both

hyper-threaded quad core CPUs (respectively similar to the core i7-4770 and core i7-4790)

Aren't am3+ already dead?

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OC a i5-4690k to the max (Push it to the limit).

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Buy AMD FX!!!!!

 

Depending on what the CPU is going to be used for, this might not be a bad suggestion. People are suggesting Xeons, which are the same concept. More, slower cores for highly threaded purposes.

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go i7 then and lots of ram also ssd is a must

If only i can afford a i7, my budget is about 240 for cpu.

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Aren't am3+ already dead?

they are in the sense that they will no longer see any worthy upgrade CPU yes...they still render videos faster than an haswell core i5...that's all i'm saying!

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they are in the sense that they will no longer see any worthy upgrade CPU yes...they still render videos faster than an haswell core i5...that's all i'm saying!

unless using quicksync :)

 

although I noticed about the same speed in after affects and premiere pro cc, I'm using the mercury opencl render engine though as I'm an AMD GPU fan :)

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AMD are cutting staff, thing don't look good in the red camp sadly so stick with intel  

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If you can live with a bit less performance in games (nothing too bad) then an 8-core AMD FX

I think i'd feel a bit safer being on the intel side. Does the xeon e3 and the i5 close in benchmarks?

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