Intel Xeon E3-1230 or 6600k

[Ryan1116]

Hello everyone,

 

I'm looking to upgrade from my old and dying fx-8120 rig and I was just needing a little assistance. I mostly game, but I am planning on delving into streaming at some point in the near future. The dilemma is, should I opt for the faster and overclockable 6600k, which should in theory be better for gaming, or should I opt for the eight threads that the Xeon has to offer? Upon upgrade, with either cpu, I will be running 16gb ddr4 and an r9 390. I also have a 280mm AIO that I'm planning on reusing as well. I would love to hear any input.

[Guest]

What are you using for. Which gpu. Can you put more information.

 

I would get 6600k for oveclocking but it won't be compatible with xeon. 6600k uses 1151 while xeon uses 1155

[2FA]

Intended use?

[Ryan1116]

Sorry about the premature posting, I've edited the original and added intended usage.

[2FA]

2 minutes ago, dexxterlab97 said:

What are you using for. Which gpu. Can you put more information.

 

I would get 6600k for oveclocking but it won't be compatible with xeon. 6600k uses 1151 while xeon uses 1155

Well he didn't say which 1230, v3 or v5. 

[Ryan1116]

V5

[Mark77]

Skylake E3's (ie: "v5" chips) cannot be used on the "desktop" SKU's.  So you would need to go with a board with the C-series chipsets, ie: Supermicro X11, etc. 

 

The 6700k is an 8-threaded CPU.  The Xeon is basically the same thing, minus the onboard graphics, but with ECC support. 

 

Unless the intent is to convert the machine into a server at some point in the future, go with the i7-6700k. 

[Mark77]

5 minutes ago, dexxterlab97 said:

What are you using for. Which gpu. Can you put more information.

 

I would get 6600k for oveclocking but it won't be compatible with xeon. 6600k uses 1151 while xeon uses 1155

Nope, the E3-1230v5 uses 1151.  They're socket compatible.  Intel disabled Xeon microcode support in "desktop" Z/H/Q/B chipset SKU's though, so you probably can't run a Xeon on a normal board like you could in the past. 

[Ryan1116]

The 6600k only has four threads. The i7-6700k is hyperthreaded.

[Streetguru]

18 minutes ago, Ryan1116 said:

Hello everyone,

 

I'm looking to upgrade from my old and dying fx-8120 rig and I was just needing a little assistance. I mostly game, but I am planning on delving into streaming at some point in the near future. The dilemma is, should I opt for the faster and overclockable 6600k, which should in theory be better for gaming, or should I opt for the eight threads that the Xeon has to offer? Upon upgrade, with either cpu, I will be running 16gb ddr4 and an r9 390. I also have a 280mm AIO that I'm planning on reusing as well. I would love to hear any input.

You need a much more expensive motherboard to use the Xeon now for 1151, it's not like Haswell where the Xeon 1231v3 was god of CPUs

just go for an i7 6700, the overclocking i5 won't be worth it over it

 

although I'd just jump to X99 from an FX 8 core man, especailly if you want to do streaming

 

or you can just buy a pci-e capture card and use the FX 8 core to do all the streaming work.
 

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Theres basic X99 for pricing, obviously a good amount more than the i7 6700 above, but probably easily worth it for your use case if you don't want a 2nd PC for streaming
 

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[Guest]

Just now, Mark77 said:

Nope, the E3-1230v5 uses 1151.  They're socket compatible.  Intel disabled Xeon microcode support in "desktop" Z/H/Q/B chipset SKU's though, so you probably can't run a Xeon on a normal board like you could in the past. 

v5 uses 1151

but a regular one doesn't

http://ark.intel.com/products/52271/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E3-1230-8M-Cache-3_20-GHz

[Ryan1116]

Thanks for all of the input everyone. I think I'm going to probably go for a 6700k build.