Intel Xeon E3-1225 V3 potential upgrade?

[GordosTacoShop]

My brother has a handful of Xeon E3-1225 V3 from a leftover project, and he said he'd ship me one if I wanted it.  I have a MSI Z97 PC Mate mobo with a pentium g3258 atm... would I need to use different ram, or is compatible since these Xeons are essentially i7s?  Is this a viable option for me, or should I just wait to grab a locked i5?  

[ZetZet]

it will work just fine, but that xeon isn't an i7, it doesn't have HT. 

 

It's an i5.

[Epiclol86]

The xeon your'e talking about is basically a locked i5. It will be compatible so i don't think grabbing an i5 is a good idea if you can get hold of that xeon.

[ClobberXD]

25 minutes ago, GordosTacoShop said:

My brother has a handful of Xeon E3-1225 V3 from a leftover project, and he said he'd ship me one if I wanted it.  I have a MSI Z97 PC Mate mobo with a pentium g3258 atm... would I need to use different ram, or is compatible since these Xeons are essentially i7s?  Is this a viable option for me, or should I just wait to grab a locked i5?  

 

You can use the same RAM Sticks, and the motherboard, but I recommend you get the i5-4690 instead - it is much newer at least.

 

BTW if your brother gives the Xeon for free, you can use it for a few months, and upgrade your full rig.

 

Visit the ARK website : (Xeon) http://ark.intel.com/products/75461/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E3-1225-v3-8M-Cache-3_20-GHz

                                     (i5) http://ark.intel.com/products/80810/Intel-Core-i5-4690-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_90-GHz

 

Xeon it is... I kinda realized that it is the best option for you !

 

 

 

Edited February 9, 2016 by anandgeforce

[ZetZet]

3 minutes ago, anandgeforce said:

 

You can use the same RAM Sticks, and the motherboard, but I recommend you get the i5-4690 instead - it is much newer at least.

 

BTW if your brother gives the Xeon for free, you can use it for a few months, and upgrade your full rig.

 

Visit the ARK website : (Xeon) http://ark.intel.com/products/75461/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E3-1225-v3-8M-Cache-3_20-GHz

                                     (i5) http://ark.intel.com/products/80810/Intel-Core-i5-4690-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_90-GHz
 

 

4690 is the most overpriced i5 and he can get that xeon for free and it's still basically the same processor. date means nothing. 

 

I have never seen shittier advice

[GordosTacoShop]

10 minutes ago, ZetZet said:

it will work just fine, but that xeon isn't an i7, it doesn't have HT. 

 

It's an i5.

So this is essentially a locked i5 with an iGPU?  Is it the 1230 that's hyperthreaded sans iGPU?  I mean I don't mind either way, it's still better than my Pentium. 

[MrSuperb]

7 minutes ago, anandgeforce said:

 

You can use the same RAM Sticks, and the motherboard, but I recommend you get the i5-4690 instead - it is much newer at least.

 

It's the same generation (Haswell)

[Guest]

24 minutes ago, GordosTacoShop said:

My brother has a handful of Xeon E3-1225 V3 from a leftover project, and he said he'd ship me one if I wanted it.  I have a MSI Z97 PC Mate mobo with a pentium g3258 atm... would I need to use different ram, or is compatible since these Xeons are essentially i7s?  Is this a viable option for me, or should I just wait to grab a locked i5?  

Take that Xeon, pop it into your motherboard and you're set for at least some time to come. Next step will probably be a platform upgrade anyway. 

 

RAM will be compatible. And that Xeon is basically a locked i5 with 4c/4t  

 

Also, E3-1230v3 is basically a locked i7 without GPU (4c/8t). 

[ZetZet]

1 minute ago, GordosTacoShop said:

So this is essentially a locked i5 with an iGPU?  Is it the 1230 that's hyperthreaded sans iGPU?  I mean I don't mind either way, it's still better than my Pentium. 

1225v3 is 4 cores 4 threads with igpu

1230v3 is 4 cores 8 threads no igpu.

 

 

1225v3 is pretty much exactly an i5.

[dizmo]

10 minutes ago, anandgeforce said:

 

You can use the same RAM Sticks, and the motherboard, but I recommend you get the i5-4690 instead - it is much newer at least.

 

BTW if your brother gives the Xeon for free, you can use it for a few months, and upgrade your full rig.

 

Visit the ARK website : (Xeon) http://ark.intel.com/products/75461/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E3-1225-v3-8M-Cache-3_20-GHz

                                     (i5) http://ark.intel.com/products/80810/Intel-Core-i5-4690-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_90-GHz
 

 

Just because it's newer, doesn't mean it's worlds better. If he gets the Xeon, then I'd say it'd be a very lateral move to pick up a 4690. Basically not even worth the cost.

[GordosTacoShop]

5 minutes ago, ZetZet said:

1225v3 is 4 cores 4 threads with igpu

1230v3 is 4 cores 8 threads no igpu.

 

 

1225v3 is pretty much exactly an i5.

I'm having a hard time understanding the reasoning behind such a chip... was this aimed at businesses that didn't want the hassle of dGPUs?  Maybe to save power?

[ZetZet]

1 minute ago, GordosTacoShop said:

I'm having a hard time understanding the reasoning behind such a chip... was this aimed at businesses that didn't want the hassle of dGPUs?  Maybe to save power?

it works with ECC memory and it has more cache than a normal i5. it also supports technologies required in servers.

 

it's still mostly an i5 because it's cheaper to make the same chip and add a little instead of designing another one completely.

[ClobberXD]

2 minutes ago, GordosTacoShop said:

I'm having a hard time understanding the reasoning behind such a chip... was this aimed at businesses that didn't want the hassle of dGPUs?  Maybe to save power?

Probably aimed at businesses who don't have nothing to do with graphics, but wanted to see monitors come to life...

[GordosTacoShop]

1 minute ago, ZetZet said:

it works with ECC memory and it has more cache than a normal i5. it also supports technologies required in servers.

 

it's still mostly an i5 because it's cheaper to make the same chip and add a little instead of designing another one completely.

Oh, I see.  Well that works for me then.  Thanks for the info!