So I almost have saved enough for my new build but I just came across a new option. They are roughly the same price, xeon 5nzd cheaper, and I'm just wondering what would be the pros and cons of each.
My understanding is that the xeon will be more powerful, without any integrated graphics which is fine I'll have a gpu, I won't be able to overclock, and I'm not really sure if I'll make use of the additional cores/threads, it will be mostly gaming but I would like to get into video editing, possibly streaming, and maybe even dabble in some music creation.
So what would you get?
Oh it will be paired with a z170 chipset, haven't finalised choice between the Asus and gigabyte option.
Well firstly i have to point out that with Skylake, you are not able to use a Skylake Xeon E3 on a consumer chipsetboard like Z170 anymore.
You need a C232 or C236 chipset socket 1151 chipsetboard for it.
Now the good news is that there are a very few C232 and C236 "comsumer" grade boards out there.
- Asus E3-V5 pro gaming.
- Asrock E3-V5 gaming OC.
- Gigabyte X170 Extreme.
Anyhow if you decide to go with a Skylake Xeon E3 route.
I would recommend to go with the E3-1230-V5 or 1240-V5.
Because those are 4 cores 8 threads chips.
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Ohhhhhhh ok so I'm not sure of the price of those boards, probably more than what I was going to pay.
All good the i5 will work fine for me for now.
Na not really exally.
The Asrock E3-V5 gaming OC is a pretty sollid board for a reasonable price.
So is the Asus one.
THe Gigabyte X170 Extreme is indeed more expensive, but this is because its a C236 board,
which comes with sli support.
The C232 boards like the Asus E3-V5 pro gaming or the Asrock E3-V5 gaming OC dont support sli.
However that shouldnt really be that much of an issue i guess.
Can we just talk about the core i5 being more suited to his needs. He would have the overclocking head room plus get this. It's kind of nice to have native decoding of most video codes on the on board GPU for offload. In this case it would make the core i5 more suited to consumer needs. Which is precisely why Intel did lock the xeon to c chipsets.. I'd say take the core i5.. Its better for the use case.
E3 12X5 CPUs, like the E3 1225 you mentioned, do have integrated graphics. Additionally the E3 1225 does not have hyperthreading. It's essentially a plain i5 with ECC capability.
The minimum Xeon I would recommend to anybody is the E3 1230 because it does have hyperthreading and it does not have the iGPU cost.
In addition to the motherboards @MisteryAngel listed, there are also the MSI C236A and C236M motherboards. I've seen them for cheaper than most C236 chipset motherboards, but they still have nice features.
You could have a good point there.
Allthough i personally would prefere to have more physical threads available for things like streaming.
I mean sure he could utilize Qsync for that, and idk how well the has been improved over the last year.
But back in the day with Haswell it was kinda crap imo.
Its great on skylake. in powersave mode on laptops which are weaker GPU... they do very well... back with haswell.. it kinda stuttered all the time
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