Xeon or i7?

[punkyard]

Hi guys

 

I have a quick question. I have a Pc with LGA 2011 P9X79 Pro Motherboard and an Xeon E5 1620 v2 in i. But i also have an i7-3770 processor lying around. I was wondering if i should switch those up. If so i might have to pay around 1200 SEK (swedish currency) to get the appropriate motherboard for it which is LGA 1155. 

 

So here is the simple question. is i7 3770 an upgrade to my gaming build E5 1620 v2 with Gtx 1060 6 GB? Is it any better then it?

[The Sloth]

i73770 with a overclock will be better unless you want to use sli/crossfire. 

[RadiatingLight]

Just now, nerdslayer1 said:

i73770 with a overclock will be better. 

It's not a K SKU

[Jumper118]

The 1620 v2 and 3770 are same performance and you can upgrade to a six core later on the x79 platform whereas 1155 had no upgrade from a quad core.

[The Sloth]

2 minutes ago, RadiatingLight said:

It's not a K SKU

you can overclock a non k i7 3770 fyi. 

[Jumper118]

Just now, nerdslayer1 said:

you can overclock a non k i7 3770 fyi. 

You can also overclock an x79 xeon way higher using the 125bclk strap

[RadiatingLight]

1 minute ago, nerdslayer1 said:

you can overclock a non k i7 3770 fyi. 

But only to it's turbo frequency right?

which isn't really overclocking, just telling it to run all cores at it's single-core turbo speed.

[punkyard]

i actually overclocked it to 4.2Ghz

[The Sloth]

3 minutes ago, RadiatingLight said:

But only to it's turbo frequency right?

which isn't really overclocking, just telling it to run all cores at it's single-core turbo speed.

 

nope actual overclock 

 

[DragonTamer1]

You won't see any performance gain from switching. Sell your i7 and get a used Xeon 1650 v2 instead.

[RadiatingLight]

2 hours ago, nerdslayer1 said:

nope actual overclock 

 

Damn!

 

How is this done? Do you need a Z series motherboard?

 

I got into tech in the haswell/broadwell era, so I don't know all the gimmicks and tricks about Sandy/Ivy bridge

[The Sloth]

32 minutes ago, RadiatingLight said:

Damn!

 

How is this done? Do you need a Z series motherboard?

 

I got into tech in the haswell/broadwell era, so I don't know all the gimmicks and tricks about Sandy/Ivy bridge

 

yea, with a Z series, board its possible. 

 

 

[JoostinOnline]

It's only partially unlocked. You can only go up 400MHz IIRC. 

 

The whole locked multiplier thing is BS anyway. They shouldn't be charging for something like that. 

[RadiatingLight]

1 minute ago, JoostinOnline said:

It's only partially unlocked. You can only go up 400MHz IIRC. 

 

The whole locked multiplier thing is BS anyway. They shouldn't be charging for something like that. 

Well, kinda.

From a consumer standpoint, you should be able to do whatever you want to your product that you bought, but from a company standpoint, it ruins sales.

if an i5 7400 was unlocked, then nobody would buy a 7500 or 7600. so by locking CPUs, intel increases ASPs

 

We see this in action with Ryzen. nobody buys an 1800X because it's super duper expensive, and since their lower end 8-core is unlocked, people just OC to the speed of the higher-end 8-core. If only X series CPUs were unlocked, then it would be super easy for AMD to convince people to get higher-tier CPUs, like the 1700X or 1600X or 1500X etc.

[JoostinOnline]

5 minutes ago, RadiatingLight said:

Well, kinda.

From a consumer standpoint, you should be able to do whatever you want to your product that you bought, but from a company standpoint, it ruins sales.

if an i5 7400 was unlocked, then nobody would buy a 7500 or 7600. so by locking CPUs, intel increases ASPs

 

We see this in action with Ryzen. nobody buys an 1800X because it's super duper expensive, and since their lower end 8-core is unlocked, people just OC to the speed of the higher-end 8-core. If only X series CPUs were unlocked, then it would be super easy for AMD to convince people to get higher-tier CPUs, like the 1700X or 1600X or 1500X etc.

When I said it's BS, I didn't mean that Intel wasn't profiting off of it.  You can make money off of shitty practices.

 

Just to add to it, every i5 is capable of hyperthreading.  The functionality is just permanently disabled on all i5 units.  An i5 and its i7 counterpart are identical physically (not counting the silicon lottery).

 

Multipliers haven't been locked until recently.  For decades you could overclock your CPU as long as your motherboard supported it.

[HelplmChoking]

Nah don't bother changing, you won't see an improvement. Plus x79 boards are worth a lot, and there's a solid upgrade path for you, my 8c/16t Xeon is x79 and going strong. Although I can't get it to overclock like yours, it stops at 107 on the BCLK.

[asand1]

Xeon has 300MHz higher clock, 2Mb more cache, 256Gb RAM vs 32Gb, and 59.7 vs 25.6GB/s memory bandwidth . If the Xeon is already in place, why would you downgrade?

http://ark.intel.com/compare/75779,65719