i5 or Xeon

[TheDaniPlay]

I'm not sure which one of 3 CPUs i should get. 

The three ones that fit my budget are:

i5 4460 - 170€

i5 4690k - 240€

Xeon E3 1231v3 - 250€

 

I'll pair the CPU up with a GTX1060 or 1070 and don't know if the i5's would bottleneck. 

I'd use them for gaming, streaming and recording (GTA and CS:GO)

My current specs:

 

beQuiet 730W PSU

ASUS ROG Z97 VII RANGER

Pentium G3258 - Will be replaced

R7 250 - WIll be replaced with a GTX 1060 or 1070 (The reason i'm considering the 1070 is because you can't use SLi with two 1060s)

1TB HDD

16GB DDR3 1866MHz RAM

beQuiet Shadow Rock Slim

Corsair 760T

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks :^)

 

[Guest]

I don't think your board supports Xeons, could be wrong though 

[kittycannon]

I'm pretty sure the 1060 won't bottleneck on the 4690k but it might on the 4460.

(you would need to get someone else to check as I don't really know these things)

[Matias_Chambers]

Get the Xeon.

[Matias_Chambers]

3 minutes ago, IAmLamp said:

I don't think your board supports Xeons, could be wrong though 

It does.

[MasamotoTakeshi]

8 minutes ago, Daniel Morpurgo said:

I'm not sure which one of 3 CPUs i should get. 

The three ones that fit my budget are:

i5 4460 - 170€

i5 4690k - 240€

Xeon E3 1231v3 - 250€

 

I'll pair the CPU up with a GTX1060 or 1070 and don't know if the i5's would bottleneck. 

I'd use them for gaming, streaming and recording (GTA and CS:GO)

My current specs:

 

beQuiet 730W PSU

ASUS ROG Z97 VII RANGER

Pentium G3258 - Will be replaced

R7 250 - WIll be replaced with a GTX 1060 or 1070 (The reason i'm considering the 1070 is because you can't use SLi with two 1060s)

1TB HDD

16GB DDR3 1866MHz RAM

beQuiet Shadow Rock Slim

Corsair 760T

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks :^)

 

I would think either of the i5's would be the better option. The Xeon is designed, manufactured, and marketed by Intel Corporation, targeted at the non-consumer workstation, server, and embedded system markets. (Basic information found on Google from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeon). So as I understand it the xeon would have little benefit to you over either of the i5's you are looking at.

[Guest]

15 hours ago, Matias_Chambers said:

It does.

Where does it say that?

[Mike216435]

2 minutes ago, MasamotoTakeshi said:

I would think either of the i5's would be the better option. The Xeon is designed, manufactured, and marketed by Intel Corporation, targeted at the non-consumer workstation, server, and embedded system markets. (Basic information found on Google from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeon). So as I understand it the xeon would have little benefit to you over either of the i5's you are looking at.

I currently have a Xeon 1231v3 in a z97 motherboard and while some of the features may be disabled the performance is on par with the i7 4770(non k). The 4690k while overclockable will still be slower in most situations. 
 

 

2 minutes ago, IAmLamp said:

Where does it say that?

[Guest]

15 hours ago, Mike216435 said:

I currently have a Xeon 1231v3 in a z97 motherboard and while some of the features may be disabled the performance is on par with the i7 4770(non k). The 4690k while overclockable will still be slower in most situations. 
 

 

Oh wtf

 

thanks for that

[Sacredsock]

The K i5 gives you the option of overclocking, but the Xeon is hyperthreaded. If you are going to be mainly gaming I'd suggest the K OC'd

 

Either way, the plain i5 is outclassed by both

[Mike216435]

1 minute ago, IAmLamp said:

Oh wtf

 

thanks for that

No problem  I have some 3dmark and cinebench numbers if you want to see cpu performance as well.

 

[ScratchCat]

Xeons for haswell are basically i7s with ECC support on certain motherboards so they give you SMT so 8 threads instead of 4.

I would go for the Xeon.

[Tusk2435]

34 minutes ago, Daniel Morpurgo said:

I'll pair the CPU up with a GTX1060 or 1070 and don't know if the i5's would bottleneck. 

I'd use them for gaming, streaming and recording (GTA and CS:GO)

The i5 probably wouldn't bottleneck them, the Xeon would probably be a better option tho, because at a similar price you get double the threads and quite a lot more performance. Of course you're dealing it with an iGPU (which I don't think you'd use anyways) and OCability. As for the i5s, the 4690k is the best of the two.

[alexyy]

4460 or the Xeon if you're after better value for money.

[EXCAV8TOR]

Get the xeon, basically an I7, and just $10 more compared to the I5 K

[Ierofanths]

Xeon all the way. It does whatever an equivalent i7 does minus the iGPU plus ecc compatibility. also, 8 threads is more futureproof

[matrix07012]

Get the Xeon, it is basically non K i7 with ECC support for the price of i5.

[Tusk2435]

15 minutes ago, Ierofanths said:

also, 8 threads is more futureproof

Ehm, not really; 8 threads has pretty much nothing to do with future-proofness, that's more related to the generation. 8 threads are better if you're doing heavy tasks that get benefits from parallel processing (such as video editing, encoding/decoding, streaming)

[Jumper118]

A used 4790k

[Sigler]

I've got the Xeon in my rig and I can say it was a good investment. It is basically an i7-4770 with no integrated graphics, and I can confirm that it works perfectly on a LGA1150 motherboard. The only thing is that it's not overclockable, but the Turbo Boost of 3.8 Ghz suits me fine. I got mine for less than €150. If you want it for something more than gaming, like video editing or intensive CPU apps it's just right. You can stream and record with the i5 pretty well. If you overclock it's just fine as well. :-)

[i_build_nanosuits]

50 minutes ago, Jumper118 said:

A used 4790k

^^that's what i would do as well!

[mlalcevski]

if your mobo supports the xeon then get the xeon it has hyperthreading. if not then get the 4690k. they are almost identical just the xeon has HT and 2MB more cache but it doesnt have onboard graphics, not that you would need it on a desktop