Intel i5 4670 or Intel Xeon E3-1230 V3 for gaming?

Mr gir · May 4, 2014

Hello everyone. I'm in a dilemma on what CPU I should get for my computer I will be building. I am between the Intel i5 4670 and the Intel Xeon E3-1230 V3 (as the title says). The computer I'm building will mainly be used for gaming but I will also like to be able to record and live stream gameplay. Being able to record and live stream gameplay aren't that important to me, but gaming is the most important thing to me. The games I will be playing are Arma 3, Next Car Game, Assassin's creed black flag, Dirt showdown, Crysis 2 and games coming out in the future. The i5 4670 costs £152.39 and the Xeon E3-1230 V3 costs £179.99. I have been told that the Xeon will preform similarly to an i7 4770 because it is apparently an i7 4770 without the igpu. If this is true then I think it would be worth spending the extra £28 and get the xeon.

The PC specs I'm thinking of getting are...
CPU: You help me decide
Motherboard: MSI B85-G41 PC Mate ATX LGA1150 Motherboard
RAM: 8GB (probably what is on sale when I'm ordering the parts)
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
GPU: MSI GeForce GTX 760 2GB TWIN FROZR Video Card
PSU: Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply
Case: BitFenix Shinobi ATX Mid Tower Case
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer
OS: Windows 7 64bit

The total cost of the system if I chose the Xeon will be £611.85 and if I chose the i5 the total cost will be £584.25. My budget is £600 but I'm ok with going only £11 over.

What CPU is better for gaming? If you can find any gaming benchmarks comparing these two CPU's can you please link me them, thanks.

Thank you for taking your time to read this and help me.

Deleted member 1300495 · May 4, 2014

I would get a I would go with the i5 as it is engineered for gaming. the Xeon is made for server related tasks. also, I would go with a 270 for the gpu as the 760 is a bit costly. Go with the msi version as they're cooling is the best

CTurbo · May 4, 2014

I would get a I would go with the i5 as it is engineered for gaming. the Xeon is made for server related tasks. also, I would go with a 270 for the gpu as the 760 is a bit costly. Go with the msi version as they're cooling is the best

No. The i5 is not "engineered" for anything in particular and the Xeon is not "made" for server related tasks. They would perform almost identically in most games, and the Xeon would be better in those few titles that utilize more than 4 cores. The Xeon would be faster in other areas outside of gaming. It's up to you if you want to spend the extra money on it.

Damn_Rookie · May 4, 2014

Since you're not looking at the unlocked i5, and overclocking is out of the question, I'd go for the Xeon. In games that use at most 4 cores/threads, they'll perform identically (100Mhz difference is negligble). For games that use more than 4 cores/threads (as they're slowing starting to), the Xeon will perform better. The hyper-threading on the Xeon will definitely come in handy for the recording and live-streaming you want to do, as well.

There's another topic on here that's been discussing the Xeon vs locked i5 just recently: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2129744/xeon-gaming.html

Mr gir · May 4, 2014

After reading that discussion you linked I'm leaning towards the xeon now. I saw someone say they have an xeon in that discussion so I'm going to PM them to try and get their opinions on it.

CTurbo · May 4, 2014

I've built two different builds with that Xeon and I can tell you it's awesome. Sadly, neither build was for ME, but I assure you that there will be a Xeon e3 in my next personal build.

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