Faster gaming PC...

[Gerr]

I have two low use PC's, need to sell one and keep one for a basic office & backup gaming PC for the bedroom.  I want to save the faster one of the two for gaming, but will consider ease of selling also.

 

Parts that the keeper PC will have no match which one I pick...

Zotac 1070 Mini GPU

1TB WD Blue HDD

Corsair C650(gray) Bronze PSU 

1080p@75Hz monitor, which will be switched to a 1440p@144Hz when I upgrade my main gaming rig's monitor this Black Friday.

 

PC1:

Xeon E3-1271v3 CPU

Asus C226 WS ATX mobo

32GB Crucial DDR3-1600 CL11 ECC

500GB Samsung 850 EVO M.2 (in 2.5" adapter)

Fractal Design Define R4 case

 

PC2:

i5-7500 CPU

ASRock H270m Pro4 mobo

16GB Kingston FURY DDR4-2400 CL16

250GB NMVe Adata SSD

Fractal Design Mini C case

 

Which one will be faster for games?

Which one would be easier to sell and for more money?

Which one would do Handbrake transcoding quicker?

Which one will consume less power and/or give off less heat?

[nick name]

I would sell the Xeon/mobo/RAM as a combo (maybe sell the RAM by itself at the same time as the CPU/mobo and advertise the RAM in the listing). Sell the case you don't like. Then keep or sell the 850 EVO. 

[Krosis]

9 minutes ago, Gerr said:

I have two low use PC's, need to sell one and keep one for a basic office & backup gaming PC for the bedroom.  I want to save the faster one of the two for gaming, but will consider ease of selling also.

 

Parts that the keeper PC will have no match which one I pick...

Zotac 1070 Mini GPU

1TB WD Blue HDD

Corsair C650(gray) Bronze PSU 

1080p@75Hz monitor, which will be switched to a 1440p@144Hz when I upgrade my main gaming rig's monitor this Black Friday.

 

PC1:

Xeon E3-1271v3 CPU

Asus C226 WS ATX mobo

32GB Crucial DDR3-1600 CL11 ECC

500GB Samsung 850 EVO M.2 (in 2.5" adapter)

Fractal Design Define R4 case

 

PC2:

i5-7500 CPU

ASRock H270m Pro4 mobo

16GB Kingston FURY DDR4-2400 CL16

250GB NMVe Adata SSD

Fractal Design Mini C case

 

Which one will be faster for games?

Which one would be easier to sell and for more money?

Which one would do Handbrake transcoding quicker?

Which one will consume less power and/or give off less heat?

Considering that the Xeon cpu and the i5 7500 are pretty much equal in performance when it comes to gaming, but the i5 with the motherboard supports DDR4 RAM, I would keep the second build in its entirety, possibly with the Samsung 850 Evo 500GB SSD as well.

[Gerr]

Couple other things to consider...

 

The Xeon is an i7 equiv, not an i5, so does have HT.  But does that offset it enough to still be faster than the i5-7500?

The C226 mobo supports SLI if I ever decided to get a 2nd 1070, can't do that with the H270 mobo.

The Xeon mobo is an ATX mobo while the Mini C case only fits mATX boards, so can't use that pair.

Selling the Xeon system will likely be harder since it's older, or I will get a fair amount less for it.

I forgot to mention that which ever PC is sold will have a gold 450W PSU and a GTX 1060 3GB card.

[Streetguru]

18 minutes ago, Gerr said:

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Why are you going to use a 1070? that costs as much as those PCs without the SSDs...SLI is a waste of money

use whatever has higher clock speeds.

[Gerr]

I caught the Zotac 1070 Mini in sale, so just bought it.  It's overkill for my 1080p@75hz monitor, but later this year that monitor will be replaced with a 1440p@144hz monitor.  If I want to hit the higher FPS on that monitor, then I would need a 2nd 1070, but probably won't.  The Haswell system gives me the option to, the Kaby Lake system does not.

[Streetguru]

2 minutes ago, Gerr said:

 

Your CPU is the bottleneck for 144hz gaming, you can just turn off AA/Shadows to hit higher fps on your GPU.

SLI is worthless and a waste of money always

[Gerr]

Both CPU's will bottleneck the 1070 at higher frame rates at 1440p?

[Herman Mcpootis]

3 hours ago, Gerr said:

Couple other things to consider...

 

The Xeon is an i7 equiv, not an i5, so does have HT.  But does that offset it enough to still be faster than the i5-7500?

The C226 mobo supports SLI if I ever decided to get a 2nd 1070, can't do that with the H270 mobo.

The Xeon mobo is an ATX mobo while the Mini C case only fits mATX boards, so can't use that pair.

Selling the Xeon system will likely be harder since it's older, or I will get a fair amount less for it.

I forgot to mention that which ever PC is sold will have a gold 450W PSU and a GTX 1060 3GB card.

keep the xeon rig for gaming, the 7500 will bottleneck the 1070 at higher refresh rates.