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I have r9 fury but no other components and i cant choose. Do i buy i5 6600k and of course z170 or do i go with xeon e3-1231-v3 or xeon e3-1241-v3? I save 35€ with 1231 and 10€ with 1241. I do sometimes record videos and play mostly WoW at 1440p. I might also start streaming in the future. One option is getting xeon e3-1230-v5 and use all the nice skylake features like usb 3.1 (in this option i lose 15€). If i buy 6600k i'll oc it to about 4.2ghz. What do you guys recommend?

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I have r9 fury but no other components and i cant choose. Do i buy i5 6600k and of course z170 or do i go with xeon e3-1231-v3 or xeon e3-1241-v3? I save 35€ with 1231 and 10€ with 1241. I do sometimes record videos and play mostly WoW at 1440p. I might also start streaming in the future. One option is getting xeon e3-1230-v5 and use all the nice skylake features like usb 3.1 (in this option i lose 15€). If i buy 6600k i'll oc it to about 4.2ghz. What do you guys recommend?

 

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Xeon E3 1231v3 is vastly superior to a skylake i5

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the xeon 1231

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6600k

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I would get the Xeon.

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I calculated wrong because the skylake xeon saves me 5€ (:

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Does oc:d i5 last 4-6 years?

Its hard to see that far in the future at least for me, but yeah its safe to say it would. The Xeon is better at streaming & video edition than the 6600K because of those extra threads.

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Get the 6600k. It's superior IPC, as well as OCing capabilities will make it superior to the Xeon, even with HT factored in.

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6600K

 

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No... The Xeon is superior.

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with stock speeds single core performance is 1230 v5 > 6600k > 1241 v3 > 1231 v3 and multi core is 1230 v5 > 1241 v3 > 1231 v3 > 6600k

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No... The Xeon is superior.

Okay. :P

Don't start a post without pc specs.

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I have r9 fury but no other components and i cant choose. Do i buy i5 6600k and of course z170 or do i go with xeon e3-1231-v3 or xeon e3-1241-v3? I save 35€ with 1231 and 10€ with 1241. I do sometimes record videos and play mostly WoW at 1440p. I might also start streaming in the future. One option is getting xeon e3-1230-v5 and use all the nice skylake features like usb 3.1 (in this option i lose 15€). If i buy 6600k i'll oc it to about 4.2ghz. What do you guys recommend?

 

Unless you're doing some heavy video editing, I'd go with the i5-6600K. While Hyperthreading can theoretically help with streaming or recording, I've seen no evidence (on my own system or otherwise) that an overclocked 6600K would struggle with any of that, plus you'd have the added benefit of superior features, connectivity, and per-core performance.

 

And by the way, I'd say shoot for 4.4–4.5 GHz, as even that seems fairly effortless if you have reasonably good cooling.

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Skylake Xeon will only work on server chipset boards. So no Z170 board with flashing heatsinks or black pcbs.

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Does oc:d i5 last 4-6 years?

Even if you don't OC it it will last that long.

 

Go with Xeon!

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Skylake Xeon will only work on server chipset boards. So no Z170 board with flashing heatsinks or black pcbs.

Xeon e3-1230v5 uses lga 1551

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Even if you don't OC it it will last that long.

Go with Xeon!

It will or it wont last that long?

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Xeon e3-1230v5 uses lga 1551

The v5 Xeons do use LGA1151 but will only work with the C230 chipset.

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