Xeon vs FX

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Hello everyone

 

I am planing to build a new PC and I am looking at CPUs now.

I noticed that benchmark of of the Intel Xeon E3-1230 V3 (LGA 1150, 3.30GHz, Unlocked)are very close to the scores of the AMD FX-8350 (AM3+, 4GHz, Unlocked). In my country the Price difference is about 50-60$. But the less expensive AMD won against the Intel slightly. So witch one is better? I love saving that money to spend on a better GPU or on a SSD.


For witch CPU shall I go. I am probably not going to overclock a lot. maybe about 0.3 GHz or so. 


LG JS

 

 

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To me it looks like the FX would be the better buy, but do not make your decision solely upon this as I am not the most informed person on Xeon processors.  Also you can't really OC the Xeon, so if you want to do some overclocking go with the FX.

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well , the xeon , is mutch more efficient in some programms , in games they are basically the same , most games only use 4 cores anyway.

Tell us where you are ? And look on ebay , I saw a 4820k go for 190€ and motherboard for 90 € witch would make it cost as mutch as the above options .

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idk what you need, but a i5 4670 will perform better per thread and you can overclock it some and I believe the non K 4670 will still allow virtualization. so it should be faster than both of your suggestions in any application or game assuming you aren't like, video encoding or something. idk the price difference though or what that xeon processor costs anyway.

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This answers you question, read it!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B18tkClXeDPETDRFdHdsRzY0QVE/edit?usp=sharing

 

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oh yeah, that 100mhz is going to give so much better per thread performance

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The Xeon is a great CPU--- but it IS NOT unlocked. Take that as you will.

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You can not overclock the xeon at all, and you don't need to anyway.

FX 8350 is better value, xeon 1230v3/4770 has better performance. Don't bother with them for gaming, minuscule difference, and the FX can make up with overclocking.

Check your benchmarks though, which programs/games you will play