I am planning on building a PC here soon and I've been debating on AMD or Intel for a while now. Intel so far is seeming to be the better choice for me with what I want to do. I do gaming, video editing, live streaming, encoding, and hopefully game development. I've been looking around and the i7's seem like a good choice, the only problem is the one that I'm looking at is over $300 (i7 4790) but the I found the Xeon E3-1230 V3 and for only $250 it seems like a better choice. According to CPU-World the performance is about the same but I wanted to get an opinion from you guys. The link for the CPU-World article is below.
http://www.cpu-world.com/Compare/417/Intel_Core_i7_i7-4790_vs_Intel_Xeon_E3-1230_v3.html
Here's also the build I that I am hoping to use it in: http://pcpartpicker.com/user/ShaneAJM/saved/m7RYcf
Xeon is better deal if you are going to buy a gpu and dont want to overclock
Agreed if you want the best editing cpu intel is the way to go.
If you want something close and overclockable 8350. Xeon isn't a k part.
At least from my understanding, performance while streaming is significantly improved by using Intel's Quick sync technology, which requires the CPU to have an iGPU. This would make the i7 the better than the Xeon when it comes to gaming, and coupled with the much higher clock speed overall better performance.
That said, I'm not very knowledgeable when it comes to Quick Sync, so I might be wrong. And I don't know what the performance difference is like, the Xeon and i7 might be close enough that the Xeon is the better bang for buck CPU.
That's like saying amd crossfire software letting the apu work as a 2nd gpu.
Xeon is a I7 just can't oc it. 4790k is the best cpu on the market other then the 3990 Sandy bridge 6 core.
If editing is a primary better off getting a k part and if you don't mind waiting the extra 30% in time for rendering oc 8350 will work too. Of course Intell is $150 more.