Xeon E3 vs i7

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Comparing the E3-1240 V3, E3-1245 V3 and the i7 4770, which one would be best to get when it comes to gaming but more importantly, 3D rendering and heavy video editing?

On PCPartPicker, both E3's (305$) are the same price here in Canada, while the i7 4770 is 30 dollars more. I'm not really looking into overclocking, hence not unlocked processors. CPUBenchmaks also confirms that the i7 is slightly better but I wanted to get opinions.

I will be using the Asus Maximus VI Hero motherboard.

If any more info is needed, just ask!

Thanks!
 
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Well, I personally would choose the Xeon 1230v3 hands down,
If you don't want to OC get the Xeon 1230v3, it would cost you much less compared to an i7 4770 without any significant lose in performance.
also it runs cooler (don't have the iGPU) less TDP and has few more Instructions. (although some of them are more related to the server environment)

# Info; In truth a bit of overclocking is possible (but is not recommended) anyway with a solid motherboard and by raising the BLCK to ~105 MHz, can reach 3.9GHz rock solid (tested on H87 ASRock fatal1ty performance) and even behaves very well in undervolting, only 1 volt (1.000v) @ 3.5Ghz, with a good ~15W less power (because of...
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Well, I personally would choose the Xeon 1230v3 hands down,
If you don't want to OC get the Xeon 1230v3, it would cost you much less compared to an i7 4770 without any significant lose in performance.
also it runs cooler (don't have the iGPU) less TDP and has few more Instructions. (although some of them are more related to the server environment)

# Info; In truth a bit of overclocking is possible (but is not recommended) anyway with a solid motherboard and by raising the BLCK to ~105 MHz, can reach 3.9GHz rock solid (tested on H87 ASRock fatal1ty performance) and even behaves very well in undervolting, only 1 volt (1.000v) @ 3.5Ghz, with a good ~15W less power (because of the focus of the server CPUs on stability and long run times, the voltages are applied more conservatively) but this is not necessary and up to you.

Anyway, since you're interested in doing heavy video editing and 3D rendering, by following the above, then you can spend more on the graphics card, if you do not have one yet.
 
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